RE: User interface suggestions

[David Grega <webmaster overtech zzn com>]

Okay, let me try to ease up your confusion.

Grayscaled images (as generally referred to in the programming community) 
generally take an outline of the icon, paint it in white and all other 
parts of the icon in dark gray.  What I'm talking about is simply taking 
the color out of the image and making it into black and white (like 
watching a TV program in color on an old black and white TV - or if you set 
the color on your TV to the lowest setting).  The latter is what I call 
"uncolored".

- dave

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From:  Adrian
Sent:  Monday, November 27, 2000 3:25 PM
To:  'gnome-gui-list gnome org'
Cc:  David Grega
Subject:  RE: User interface suggestions

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On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, David Grega wrote:

> I would be more supportive of this idea if the icons were not the same 
kind
> of grayscale as a disabled button.  Rather, I'd prefer something like
> colored and uncolored - like the old MSIE 3 toolbar where icons are 
colored
> in grayscale colors then when you move your mouse over them, it becomes
> colored. Something like that I would support since it is not confusing 
and
> this type of format would not be confused with the disabled type of
> grayscale we're used to.
>
> - dave

???? I think it's probably a misunderstanding... For me,
uncolored=grayscaled, this is, if you go to a image editor, load a color
image and convert it into grayscale (=uncolored), you get the same image,
but without colors, not whited (=disabled). But if you prefer the word
"uncolored", I'll fix my suggestion: we can use uncolored icons for low
used ones, and colored icons for most used ones :). Tnx


								Adrian