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<p><span style="color:#000000">A Sunday 16 September 2007 18:24:59, Aaron J. Seigo escreveu:</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000">> On Sunday 16 September 2007, Andreas Pakulat wrote:</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000">> > On 16.09.07 18:45:33, Jos Poortvliet wrote:</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000">> > > Being able to see which window is active seems pretty important to me.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000">> > > We can't change the color of the window decoration anymore, as that</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000">> > > would visually really suck. The theme simply isn't made for that. So</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000">> > > we can do something else (which Matthew here is trying) or rewrite</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000">> > > Oxygen again.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000">> ></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000">> > I'm starting to think that maybe the Oxygen design in its current form</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000">> > doesn't play with the technical limitations we have. So maybe a redesign</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000">> > is needed (yes that sucks, because it means that we won't have oxygen in</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000">> > 4.0 and that the designers would throw away a lot of work).</span></p>
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<p><span style="color:#000000">> throwing the baby out with the bath water would be silly, imho. the issue</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000">> here is quite simple:</span></p>
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<p><span style="color:#000000">> how to show inactive windows differently from active ones</span></p>
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<p><span style="color:#000000">> we've gotten high centered in this conversation over changing the palette.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000">> that *obviously* isn't the only approach. really, we could quite easily get</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000">> away with simply applying a little colour to the window decoration buttons</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000">> and then desaturating them when not the active window.</span></p>
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<p><span style="color:#000000">> this isn't a reason to toss oxygen out (and reading such things must be</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000">> pretty demoralizing for the designers and developers involved, btw). at the</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000">> same time, the oxygen designers do need to loosen up a bit and look at</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000">> other options instead of trying to force through this palette change thing</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000">> which we just really aren't ready for (technology-wise) right now.</span></p>
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<p><span style="color:#000000">> we can try to do such palette changes properly later (e.g. 4.1 or</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000">> whatever), but right now we need a pragmatic solution (which "scrap oxygen"</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000">> isn't)</span></p>
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<p><span style="color:#000000">yes aron, i just moked a inactive version of the window withe windeckbuton the butons greeyd out, also note that the botons wen done have color on over and pressed. thinking on making the "x" in red so the difrence betwin active and inacive is even biguer.... its not perfect baut its ok i gess.....</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000">link </span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration:underline;color:#0d00ff">http://www.nuno-icons.com/images/estilo/image4618nocoloring.png</span></p>
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<p><span style="color:#000000">core oxygen icon designer</span></p>
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