GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 794140
Important buttons on the calculator are hard to distinguish
Last modified: 2018-05-22 12:01:07 UTC
Created attachment 369393 [details] The Windows 8.1 calculator, with better distinguished buttons The buttons on the gnome-calculator, especially the plus and multiply and divide buttons, are hard to distinguish one from another. This makes working with the calculator a pain, at least if one has no numeric keypad. The calculator bundled with Windows 8.1 does slightly better in this regard; see attached screenshot. Cf. also this bug report: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155099 I am using an old version of the Gnome-Calculator, because it is the one that comes with my OS, that OS being Linux Mint 18.3. Perhaps things have improved in newer versions of Gnome-Calculator.
Created attachment 369425 [details] Current calculator screenshot Thank you for taking the time to report this issue. Could you please explain how do you imagine having the action buttons easier to distinguish? On the screenshot of the Windows 8.1 calculator, there is a subtle horizontal line (with the bottom part being a bit darker, the top part lighter) on the action buttons, the numbers are simply a bit lighter than the action buttons, and the memory-related buttons are a bit darker and flat. This does help differentiating action buttons from number buttons indeed, but telling the difference between +, - and / doesn't seem to be easier to me. Did I miss a detail somewhere? For reference, attaching a screenshot of the latest Calculator (with the default theme of Gnome, called Adwaita-except for the calculator icon in the left corner of the headerbar, that's not there by default), so that you can check annotate what you would expect as a fix.
Thanks Robert. > Could you please explain how do you imagine having the action buttons easier to distinguish? On the screenshot of the Windows 8.1 calculator, there is a subtle horizontal line (with the bottom part being a bit darker, the top part lighter) on the action buttons, the numbers are simply a bit lighter than the action buttons, and the memory-related buttons are a bit darker and flat. This does help differentiating action buttons from number buttons indeed, but telling the difference between +, - and / doesn't seem to be easier to me. I think the answer is: well, that subtle shading itself. i.e. the bottom part being a bit darker, the top part lighter, on the operation/action ('+', '-', etc.) buttons. For, that shading makes the symbols printed on those buttons easier to read. I think it would be good, too - and to the same end of distinguishing the buttons - to *embolden* the text on the (on all?) buttons. Thanks for the attachment showing the latest version of the Gnome calculator. I looked at it (and I did try one different theme on my computer and, though that changed somewhat how the calculator looked, it did not help with the issue at hand).
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