plasma, panels, colours

[Marco Martin]

On Friday 07 November 2008, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Friday 07 November 2008, Marco Martin wrote:
> > it's still work in progress, the margins are slightly wrong, and will
> > make normal and iconified ones maybe a bit more different but i think
> > it's already a bit more happy :)
>
> yes, this is a nice step in the right direction imho. it really doesn't
> solve the issue of not being able to see the other task buttons, the system
> tray, the pager, etc.. so while this is an interesting improvement, it also
> doesn't deal with the base issue.
>
> namely that not having any distinction between the background and the
> foreground makes it all background.
i've updated
http://www.notmart.org/misc/tasks.png

other tasks button and the systemtray are ligher and have a stronger outline, 
also the panel background is slightly lighter (i'm not sure about that)
the active task it's still very black, so it's very different from the other 
ones and is distinguishable from the hover effect (same halo, lighter 
background)
from that i would still change the taskitem code to make the halo paint 
outside the task area like the pushbutton and maybe try to give a similar 
effect to the pager

Cheers,
Marco Martin

> if you can, imagine how much better it would look if there was some
> contrast in hue such that each component can be clearly seen instead of one
> big muddle.
>
> right now i'm sitting in a room where the sun in coming through the windows
> and i honestly can't see very well half the dividing areas on the panel,
> e.g. the systray, the pager, the tasks.
>
> the idea of giving these things nice borers is really great, now we just
> need to be able to actually *see* them.
>
> right now it's too subtle. and not only the selected window. every item.
>
> the selected window was a specific example; you've addressed that by adding
> some contrast. now we just need a *general* solution for all the other
> boundaries that remains subtle but increases definition.
>
> alter the background a bit so it isn't a block depressing black isn't
> exactly astounding or rocket science.