On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 09:19 -0400, Rodney Dawes wrote: > On Pre , 2004-05-28 at 12:04 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote: > > On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 10:18 -0400, William Jon McCann wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Are the colors for sources intended to be used for foreground or > > > background? It seems that in evolution they are used for both. The > > > source list uses it as a foreground color and the actual events/tasks > > > use it as a background color. > > > > > where is the source list using the colors as foreground? > > In the treeview the color is the foreground color of the text. > I had to open the properties dialog for each source and press 'ok' for this to show up...
> > > I think it is a bit problematic to use them for both. For most people, > > > light colors tend to work well for the background (when not using an > > > inverse video theme) but not so well for the foreground. > > > > > > I suppose much of this depends on what the theme foreground and > > > background are already set to. Should we do something like compute the > > > average value of the theme [back/fore]ground and if it is less/darker > > > than 50% gray then use the inverse of the source color for the > > > [fore/back]ground? For example, if the theme color and source color are > > > both #000000 then use #ffffff for the source. > > > > > > I'm trying to figure out what to use for the clock applet. > > > > > the task list and event list use the colors for background, so using the > > same in the clock applet might be the best. > > I don't think we should use them in the background for the tasks list > either. This especially becomes problematic when the due today/past due > colors come into play, and the background color gets changed to that. > While using the colors as the background does make sense in some aspects > of the Evo UI, it still causes problems. I think we should have a little > icon that gets composited with the color, that we can put next to the > source names in the source list treeview and option menus that show up > in the UI. The clock applet and mini tasks view in the calendar could > use this icon as well, and we can get rid of the use of background > colors there, or at least, rid of the conflicting usage of background > colors. Or, we could perhaps continue using the background colors to > distinguish sources, in the list of tasks, and create icons to show that > the tasks are due today or past due, instead of using colors. Either > way, we should definately do the composited icon for use in the treeview > of the calendar and tasks components, as well as for the option menus > that show up elsewhere. > using icons for due today/overdue would be the best solution, IMO. Thus we could continue using the colors to distinguish sources, instead of one icon per source. cheers _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
