Re: [Usability]Notbook tabs look & feel

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 13:52, Parrish M Myers wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Let me first start off by saying that I am but a humble user and
> greatly appreciate the hard work put in by gnome developers to make
> gnome a great desktop.
> 
> I wanted to express a coment or concern about the notbook tabs.  In
> just about every theme I have seen for gtk+ 1 and 2 I always seem to
> spend too much time determining which notebook tab is active ( poor
> memory? ).  In any case... How hard would it be to redesign the Notbook
> tabs to include a small stripe of color (the color of the highlighted
> tab) to seperate the tabs from the data area of that window? i.e. the
> way tabs look in Mozilla (modern theme) and Aqua
> (http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Essentials/
>          AquaHIGuidelines/AHIGControls/Tab_Controls.html)
> 
> That small stripe of color greatly improves clarity in which tab is
> active.  Is this easy to accomplish in gnome2?  If so I would
> definately be willing to perform some of the work.

This seems like a good idea. It would also probably be helpful for
accesibility reasons for users with low vision.

-Seth