I don't want to be needlessly nit-picky. I myself would probably just use a shade decorator (or perhaps a hypothetical border decorator) with a fixed color and call the flag "debugfocus". But if you prefer the choice of colors, I am fine with that.
On Sep 24, 2010, at 1:38 PM, Chris Bartlett wrote: > On 25 September 2010 00:10, Greg Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>> Also, as a user, I think I might find it odd that I need to specify a >> color >>>> when really I just want the debug focus behavior. >>> >>> I'm not sure I agree that a user would find it odd if the property was >> named >>> debugfocuscolor and the documentation specified that it accepted one of X >>> values to give them flexibility. >> >> As a user, I'd first expect to see a flag that enabled debug focus >> behavior, and then possibly an optional flag to control the color. >> > Having made the call to offer a choice of colours, and that the 'debug' > behaviour would be off by default, having 2 properties seemed overkill. > In other situations, of course what you are saying makes sense. > > >>>> Also, as Sandro pointed out, any hard-coded color may work well in some >>>> schemes but not in others. >>>> >>> Hence 3 colors. I was aware of the work that you and Sandro had been >> doing >>> on different color schemes. >> >> Right, but the issue isn't color - it's contrast. That's why XOR mode would >> help. It always draws in a contrasting color. >> > Yep, I understand. Again I was just trying to keep things simple while > offering some flexibility. > > Shall I continue with a ShadeDecorator, or would you rather something else?
