Hi Kendy, > Thank you both! :-) I am still trying to get the "real" values from the > system, so that we are 100% consistent there, I'll keep you informed > where I get with those efforts.
I think, LibO already uses the "real" values. It's just that Microsoft has never found visual consistency (Metro UI might resolve this problem at least) and is still experimenting very much. This leads to ribbon apps (like Paint and Wordpad) looking completely different from menu-based apps on the same OS. Ribbon apps are only shipped in Windows 7 and up, so even though their visual style would look good on Vista, it probably isn't available (MS makes their ribbon UI available for use, I think, though). Which somehow means hardcoding is the best option I see... The good news is that, on Vista and 7 and 8, there is little configurability as to the look of the OS. With the Aero style, the only option available is selecting the colour of the window border. Then there's Aero Basic (AFAIK, it doesn't have any options) and Windows Classic (which has lots of options but is better served with our existing Windows XP-and-below style). > But for sure we can improve the look of the non-themed LO [ie. when used > on Linux outside of Gnome / KDE, or when used on older Windows] > immediately. I myself slightly prefer the bluish look, but... ;-) I guess I wouldn't really go for the bluish look outside of its Vista/7/8 domain. (One'd have to try it though.) > The code that sets the defaults in that case is here: > > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/tree/vcl/source/app/settings.cxx#n355 Really cool. I've played a bit with it... however, for Windows XP and below, it actually is a very fitting look, I guess. The only thing that really annoyed back in my XP days was the gradient behind the individual toolbars and behind all of the toolbars. So, I've got a few questions: * On which of those values do the gradients depend? * Is there any way to make the gradients horizontal instead of vertical? * Is there any way to define the colour for the main window indepently from the color of the dialogue windows? Astron. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted