Be that as it may, Adobe's desire for conformity should not deprive users of the ability to set their own color schemes. Just a little matter of user control that the Adobe mandarins of design seem unwilling to surrender.
That said, it would be a welcome addition to the entire Windows interface to allow users to assign different color schemes to different apps. I would like to be able to distinguish my FM windows from my Visio or Excel or what have you by color instead of all apps being presented in a tuberculous ward gray. So yes, IMHO the CS splash screens are now uniformly pathetically ugly. Will White Monrovia CA > > Lou Martindale wrote: > > > >> Thanks to all who responded to my cry for help. I will follow up on >> all >> suggestions, but for a quick fix for short term I decided to try >> adjusting >> the UI brightness and it does make the toolbars, icons, etc. easier >> to read. >> I'll just try to ignore the grayness. Sure makes me wonder what was >> Adobe >> thinking when they choose gray as their cross platform corporate >> look. > > > I'm sure it relates to the fact that Adobe flagship products (which > generate some 75% of their revenue if I remember the numbers from an > Adobe annual report) are applications for generating and > manipulating graphics and images, where you don't want the color of > GUI elements to affect the perception of the colors of the graphics > being worked on. GUI neutrality is necessary for those kinds of > tools; and since it doesn't really matter for text-oriented apps, > consistency won out. > > -Fred Ridder > > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as whitefamily at mac.com. > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/whitefamily%40mac.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Frink: Well, sure, the Frinkiac-7 looks impressive, don't touch it, but I predict that within 100 years, computers will be twice as powerful, 10,000 times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe will own them. Apu: Could it be used for dating? +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
