El mar, 26-01-2016 a las 15:17 -0500, Elle Stone escribió: > > As Gez, Sven, and myself have pointed out, the color of the > immediate > image surround matters a great deal because it influences the > appearance > of the image. What actually constitutes the image surround depends > on > the user's particular "at the moment" setup: It might be the desktop > itself in MWM with a shrink-wrapped image, or the canvas padding, or > the > theme itself if the image takes up enough of the screen.
Well, in the case of shrink-wrapped floating windows on a desktop background this discussion becomes moot as you can't predict what kind of background the user chose. Somebody knowing what she's doing would have a neutral background with a suitable luminosity for her needs, but others could have a colorful picture with flowers and kitten :-) Maximized floating windows are likely to show some padding color when they're zoomed out to fit. > > The "paper white" values that I gave for various printer profiles > only > had the purposes of establishing that "paper white" is not the same > as > 100% monitor white and for suggesting the maximum Lightness for even > the > Lightest theme shouldn't be 100% monitor white, even if the goal is > emulating "paper white". The main effect of a theme with large > amounts > of 100% monitor white would be eyestrain. Ah, ok. Agreed then. Even while any user serious about printing is likely to use a white level as close as possible to her common paper stock white, it's still a moving target. But in my opinion the strongest argument against a too bright theme is eyestrain. > > It seems to me that the currently proposed five themes > (https://github.com/Draekko-RAND/gimp-themes) have a nice range of > tonality, from the very dark "Dark Side of GIMP" to the much lighter > "Light" theme, and it would be nice if GIMP provided all five themes > by > default. > > Changing themes in Preferences is easy to do. Changing icons is also > easy to do. > > Changing the canvas padding color -arguably more important than the > theme color - isn't so easy to do. Well, changing the color isn't > difficult, though it requires several mouse clicks to accomplish. > But > finding a previously used color isn't easy - the previously used > colors > keep disappearing and the little squares of remembered colors are > pretty > useless because they aren't color-managed. > > It would be nice if there were a way to set up, keep, and quickly > choose > from a set of user-established canvas padding colors, independent of > choosing a theme or a set of icons (and hopefully someone will tell > me > this is already possible by doing XYZ . . . ). Agreed. Personally I'd love to have a little switcher below in the status bar, by the quickmask and zoom/units selectors. A simple square would suffice. You click on it and it cycles between black/middle gray/white (and maybe the background checkers colors too? idk).
