On 5/31/06, Thomas J. Baker <tjb@xxxxxxx> wrote:
At first blush, being a bling fanboy, I thought it was just too much translucency and could be tweaked. The more I think about it though, the more I lean towards menus not being translucent at all.
Transulency in any layering textual element that users are expected to read is a usability killer.. full stop. Being able to sort of read the desktop underneath the text in an semi-transparent open window, just means you can sort of not read any of the text at all. Down with transulency in functional information display contexts. Keep that crap where it belongs, window dressing for flavor-of-the-day media player "skins." --jef"pines for the days for the sanity of a userbase who prefer unfocused wireframes over transparency by default to avoid a mismash of unreadable layers of text garbage, when there are 3+ layers windows open.. instead of the mad rush to shove transparency into every aspect of the default visible display in an effort to prove to everyone that the system has the capability to do it. The fascination with transparency in an Xwindows system is like watching a 21 year old go out for their first legal night of drinking and abuse alcohol to the extremes of bodily endurance and then having to report the work at 8 am and be productive. Look at us! We can now drink our fill of transparency.. chug chug chug!!!!!! "spaleta -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
