First off, FLTK is a great library. I've read only some documentation and 
looked at a few source files, but I'm already amazed. Simplicity and 
compactness is important to me, and FLTK seems to have just that.

Anyway, I sent my compiled demos to a friend for him to try out, and he pointed 
out something quite annoying. FLTK looks ugly on dark desktops. Especially the 
default scheme.


The reason is that it uses a really high contrast to draw some of the box 
lines. This looks good on a bright desktop, since black outlines on a white 
background look natural, but it looks very ugly on a dark desktop, where white 
outlines will be disturbing.

I experimented a bit and figured out how to do a quickfix by changing the 
functions that draw the boxes a bit. (Instead of "WWHH", I put "LLHH"). You can 
see the results here:

http://img703.imageshack.us/f/darkl.png/

Anyway, since it's really not a very difficult problem, I thought I'd bring it 
up here, so dark desktop users can be amazed by FLTK, too, in the future!
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