On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 20:16:23 -0300, Steven Garrity <stevelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've occasionally run into a situation where I mistake an unfocused > Nautilus window in the background as the focused foreground window. The > window title bar with Bluecurve makes a strong distinction between > focused and unfocused windows, which is great. > > However, if you have icons selected in the *unfocused* window, you may > notice that the unfocused icon selection color (that masks the icons, > and becomes the background color of the icon title text) is very close > to the icon selection color in *focused* windows. > > The two colors are different, but not by much. I would like to suggest > making the unfocused icon selection color more significantly different > than the focused icon selection color. Perhaps a bit lighter, and gray > instead of blue (like the window title bar change). > > I've put together a screenshot illustrating focused and unfocused > Nautilus windows and example swatches of the two colors in question: > http://actsofvolition.com/images/screenshots/bluecurve-selection-focus.png > > I haven't worked on Gnome themes before, but some help and digging > around turned up that this color is easy to change. In my Fedora Core 2 > install, the color is on line #36 of the file > /usr/share/themes/Bluecurve/gtk-2.0/gtkrc > > I'm experimenting using a gray color (#b5b5b5) for a few days on my own > machine. > > Depending on feedback to this post (welcome and encouraged), I'll file a > bug (and maybe a patch). > > Steven Garrity I like it. Simple change that makes it easier to identify windows - who can complain about that! -- Martin -- Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
