plasma, panels, colours

[Marco Martin]

On Saturday 08 November 2008, Marco Martin wrote:
> 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
err, http://www.notmart.org/misc/tasks2.png
actually :)

>
> 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.