[4675] in testers
Re: 9.0 look and feel comments
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu May 24 18:03:53 2001
Message-Id: <200105242203.SAA09212@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
cc: aui@MIT.EDU, testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 24 May 2001 21:49:40 -0000."
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Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 18:03:43 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> Is it too late to change the terminal background from very light
> grey to white? Since all my other windows come up with a white
> backround, the terminal looks funny.
> The Welcome to Athena xlogin screen looks funny too. Is that light
> gray? Now that I'm actually using it, I think I like white better.
> I'm still getting used to the new icons. Does anyone else feel like
> they're a wee bit scrunched too close together.
There are no technical obstacles to changing these (though the gnome
terminal background and the icon spacing cannot be changed for users
who have already logged in on a 9.0 machine), if we have consensus
that it is a good idea. Note that Bill probably sees a lot more white
windows than most users, since he uses Andrew. (But normal users do
see the console window, and zephyrgrams, both of which have white
backgrounds by default.)
I can change the positioning for new users, though not for people who
have already logged in on a 9.0 machine.
> For some reason they seem blurry too.
They're blurry because TPS gave us icons which were too wide by one or
two pixels, so they get scaled down a bit. (Also, they gave us the
icons as jpegs, which means there is compression lossiness, though
that's probably not nearly as important as the scaling.) I thought we
were expecting another round of icons, but I haven't heard anything in
a while.
Another problem is that the font used for the word "Menu" is slightly
different from the font used for the icon labels, because I created
the menu icon myself (TPS never gave us one).
