On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 01:07:57PM +0100, Anselm R. Garbe wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 08:39:33AM +0100, Sander van Dijk wrote:
> > On 1/13/07, Anselm R. Garbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >Hi there,
> > >
> > >I realize that dwm is feature complete and that I develop some
> > >kind of love-hate relationship to client titlebars.
> > >
> > >Hence I plan to replace the client titlebars with a
> > >new color tuple instead:
> > >
> > >BORDERBGCOLOR (border of unfocused window)
> > >BORDERFGCOLOR (border of focused window)
> >
> > If somebody would've told me I was going to suggest this half a year
> > ago I wouldn't have believed it, but I actually think now that it
> > might be a good idea to split out the colors even further with:
> >
> > MODE{BG,FG}COLOR (for the modelabel)
> > TITLE{BG,FG}COLOR (for the selected client's title label)
>
> I'm not sure about this. I agree that STATUS{BG,FG}COLOR is
> misleading. We'd have then:
>
> BORDER{BG,FG}COLOR
> SELTAG{BG,FG}COLOR
> NORMTAG{BG,FG}COLOR
> MODE{BG,FG}COLOR
> TITLE{BG,FG}COLOR
> STATUS{BG,FG}COLOR
> DMENU{BG,FG}COLOR
>
> That are 14 colors! Too much in my eyes for a small status bar.
>
> Instead of your proposal I propose the following, which is a
> simplification of current colorscheme:
>
> [UN]FOCUSCOLOR -> used for focused/unfocused borders
One remark, s/[UN]/[NO]/
> NORM{BG,FG}COLOR -> used for bar bg, unselected tags, mode,
> status [and dmenu normal stuff]
> SEL{BG,FG}COLOR -> used for selected tags, title [and dmenu normal stuff]
>
> That are 6 colors!
>
> All in all I think that the mode label is not so important that
> it needs a different color, and since the tags are static at
> compile time, the position of the mode label never changes.
> Having the status text in the same color as non-focused/selected
> things is ok, the bar has been divided with this in mind.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Anselm R. Garbe >< http://suckless.org/~arg/ >< GPG key: 0D73F361
>
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