[4373] in testers
gratuitous mwm default color changes (8.4 beta)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jamie Morris)
Wed May 24 00:53:02 2000
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To: testers@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 00:52:53 -0400
From: Jamie Morris <jemorris@MIT.EDU>
Some random bits of mwm's color defaults have changed.
Some of them are annoying. I doubt this was a purposeful
part of the release (who would consider it worth the thought?),
it's presumably from something Sun did. Of course it's not
a bug, this is just for the record.
Mwm*activeForeground was the first one I noticed. It now defaults
to white, so that when a window takes focus, not only does its border
change from grey to greenish, but also the title changes from
black to white. This annoyed me enough to figure out the resource
and fix in my dotfiles.
The little thingy that pops up in the center of the screen when
I'm moving a window, to tell me what the current coordinates are,
has also gotten a white foreground, where I think it used to
have a black one. As I automatically edit out noticing the
appearance of the thingy I'm not positive, but I think the change
is why I'm noticing its appearance now. A quick skim through
the manpage did not cause an appropriate resource name to jump
out at me and I'm not annoyed by it enough to search.
Lastly, most/all menus' background has changed from (I think) blue
to gray. This I don't mind at all, but it's still a gratuitous change.
If there are others, I haven't noticed them.
Jamie
