Visual design for logout/login/lockscreen

[Marco Martin]

On Thursday 05 June 2014, David Edmundson wrote:
> > * I think is just fine using the default theme and swapping textcolors
> > and backgroundcolors for the rectangles: to me it looks way better if
> > even if is dark, the two buttons still look light/default
> 
> Toolbuttons were the big problem with just hardcoding colours for text
> and background
> 
>  - if the icon is black you can't see it on the background
>  - if the icon is also hardcoded to white, you can't see it when you
> do the mouseover
> 
>  - if you avoid using a toolbutton and load them as images hardcoded
> to white, you have no indication that it's a button, and it's bad to
> have some buttons behaving differently

Another idea, is to use the standard dialog background/shadow, but disable 
left and right borders and maximize horizontally.

and make it a a design pattern for things around like lockscreen prompt, 
alt+tab

just an idea, to explore probably in future releases ;)

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Marco Martin