Re: default theme consensus

["Eugenia Loli-Queru" <eloli hotmail com>]

Link,
please allow me to suggest some changes to Glider. I believe that it 
currently looks almost as flat as Industrial does, it's just that it's 
colors are easier to the eyes than Industrial. Please find on the mockup: 
http://www.osnews.com/img/8064/glider.png the following three changes I 
would like to suggest:

1. A lighter color for the "toggle button" and "background tabs". Currently, 
the light color come in extreme contrast of the toggle color, so I would 
suggest a lighter (but still distinct) color for those.

2. All active elements (anything that can be clicked that is) should have a 
different color than the background "window view/body". I don't know why 
theme creators don't do that... Doing so, it makes any theme much more 
accessible, even for those who don't need special accessibility (because the 
brain is faster to distinguish between elements that have different colors 
than it is for shapes, otherwise extra brain-power is needed to distinguish 
what is where). The color difference is subtle (otherwise it would look like 
a clown ;-), but still important to exist.

3. I changed a bit the progress bar to not be as flat. That's just a gimmick 
though, not as important as the above two.

Rgds,
Eugenia

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