Re: Default WM theme settings

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Calum Benson wrote:

> Jeff Waugh wrote:
>
> > I thought there was a reasonable amount of agreement that the Windows-like
> > layout was arse.
>
> As far as I recall, the only "arsey" thing people had to say about it is
> that there's no separation between the close button and the max/min
> buttons, which is true, but (in our humble opinion) better than barely
> being able to see the close button at all, having to click on the close
> button (albeit with a different mouse button) to bring up the window
> menu, or having a mysterious shade button where many (if not most)
> newbies/upgraders from Windoze/CDE will expect the close button, all of
> which are true of the current default.  But which jsh, in fairness, said
> could all probably be addressed, although he didn't say when and I
> didn't dare ask  :o)
>
> Anyways, it appears there's sufficient disagreement with our POV that
> changing the community default would probably make a lot of people
> grumpy, so I suspect we can live with agreeing to disagree on this
> one...
I did a little mockup to see what it would look like with white buttons 
on the left in Crux:
 http://www.daa.com.au/~james/images/crux-mockup.png

I think this would improve the usability of the default button order. 
The colour used for the text colour is white, so having white buttons 
makes it a lot easier to find a contrasting highlight colour.  It should 
also make it a bit more obvious that it is a close button rather than a 
menu button :)

Also, the unfocused window borders in Crux look a bit weird for dark 
backgrounds.  I modified the unfocused window borders to be a bit darker:
 http://www.daa.com.au/~james/images/crux-dark.png

This is probably not as useful for people with light backgrounds though :)

James.

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