GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 156219
Default colors should be from GNOME HIG palette
Last modified: 2005-01-09 08:53:02 UTC
The default colors are currently very bright and don't really fit well with the GNOME desktops' more muted shades. Colors from the GNOME palette - http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/design.html#design-color - should be used.
Created attachment 32962 [details] [review] Patch to change default colors Makes the default colors the following: Receive Foreground: Accent Red Receive Background: Red Shadow Send Foreground: Accent Green* Send Background: Green Shadow Connected Status: Accent Green* Disconnected Status: Green Shadow Connecting Status: Accent Yellow Text Foreground: Accent Green* Text Outline: Green Shadow * The "Accent Green" is lightened a little as suggested in the HIG to increase the contrast for readablilty of the text. This patch also fixes the text background color which was set to an invalid value causing it the appear purple in prefs.
Can you attach a screenshot of these changes please?
Created attachment 32998 [details] Screenshot of colour changes
Created attachment 32999 [details] Screenshot of modem lights colours changes Try to get the right screenshot in the right bug this time :)
Davyd had brought up possible readability issues with the new color palette here, but I'll let him comment on that if he wants to. I don't really see those, but perhaps one has to run the applets in order to be able to tell. Personally I think following the HIG here is a plus since it reduces the blinking of high contrast colors in the applets on the panel, especially applets like this with lots constant activity.
I agree the muted colours are a plus. However, the lack of contrast between the characters and the unlit cells makes reading hard. Perhaps use the old unlit text colour.
Hmm... actually perhaps the unlit text pref should be dropped altogether since it just makes it harder to read? (as an aside, the text should prolly just be normal text like the weather applet...)
spark, I tend to agree the text should be turned into normal text. To be perfectly honest, I want to completely overhaul this applet and bring it up to date with the other applets on the desktop. To start with, that means removing the pages of god aweful preferences. Now I'm not sure if this means that we should integrate it's functionality into something else (like gnome-netstatus) or just simply redesign it. I'm tempted to vote for redesigning it, perhaps you could lend a hand? I'm after something simple, non-complicated and most of all usable!
It would sound most useful if we had a network selector applet (wavelan/eth/modem) with all this functionality merged - you basically want to see if bits are moving back and forth on your network device, be it modem or ethernet or tcp-over-pigeons :) It might be a status icon instead of an applet though - although I agree with people who are scared that everything will be a status icon soon :) - but basically this thingy should show up whenever you configure a network device or more, and should offer a way for the user to switch those configured settings via a menu. That would be useful. I like the new colours too. Another one to tackle wiht the hig palette would be the cpu monitor applet unless it's already been taken care of.
Yeah, i suppose net-applet is basically what we're looking for (but with flashy icons like Windows uses instead of a plain icon).
gnome-netstatus has flashy icons ;)
modemlights was rewritten for G10.