Re: Better default background

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 14:52, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Callum McKenzie">
> 
> > The actual colour is #8395ac for those who want to try it without getting
> > out a colour picker.
> >   
> > The gradient is an abomination.
> 
> Oddly enough, I just tried a vertical gradient from #8395ac to #576473,
> which looks terrific (or at least I think it does). Subtle gradients work a
> lot better than fugly <random-colour> to black. :-)

Making the background very light is an accessibility problem unless we
can control it from the Theme capplet.  Please don't do that before we
get the "user profiles" feature ;-)


the current default works very well with the accessibility/low-vision
themes.

- Bill

> - Jeff
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