Comments on: Horrible, Horrible Colours

By: Chris Webber

Chris Webber — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Thank you thank you thank you thank you

By: Jeff Schroeder

Jeff Schroeder — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

This is something that so many of my buddies (new to linux) complain about and one even switched to KDE because of it.

Thanks!

By: Eugenia

Eugenia — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Please add a button that says “Reset to theme’s defaults colors” or something.

By: Jakub Steiner

Jakub Steiner — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I LOVE YOU!

By: fraggle

fraggle — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Does this mean that Gnome will support “Hot dog stand”?

By: Pavel

Pavel — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

If you want to do it right you should also consider saving, exporting and switching color shemes to allow to group themes like this under your interface:
http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=43659

By: Pavel

Pavel — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

better example:
http://www.gnome-look.org/content/pre2/42755-2.png

By: Eugenia

Eugenia — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Also, I need a way to make buttons a different color than their background. Please consider adding this ability, because it helps in usability having the buttons a tint lighter/darker than the bg window color.

By: Thomas Wood

Thomas Wood — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Eugenia, Pavel: My current plans include the ability to specify a number of different color schemes in the theme itself (including translations of the colour scheme names). If you set your own colours, you will set the current colour scheme to “Custom”, and will always be able to pick one of the schemes from the theme again.

By: Thomas Wood

Thomas Wood — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Eugenia: The way this works is that the theme will specify shade for different appearances. e.g. it will shade the background colour lighter for objects in a prelight state. If you want buttons a lighter colour than the background, all you need to to is specify this in your theme (i.e. create a button style in your gtkrc and set bg[NORMAL] = lighter(@bg_color)).