Hi Winfried, Michael, Ivan, all, >> > I did some thinking (some, not a lot) on this matter. >> > It seems that the default colour for font and line colour buttons is >> > black and for background buttons (highlight excepted) is transparent. >> > That does not look usefull to me, is these are bound to be the >> default >> > colours of font, line, background anyway. >> > Isn't it a better idea to set the default colours as a contrastong >> > colour (eg COL_RED for font/line and COL_YELLOW for background) so >> that >> > users can 'mark' sections without choosing a colour?
Absolutely. >> >> To illustrate my suggestion, see attached diff file, which incidently >> also shows why Astron and Ivan where confused by the gray colour in the >> background button... >> I will fix that with my next split button patch. Would you mind using COL_RED instead of COL_LIGHTRED? (LIGHTRED on YELLOW is mostly a colour contrast, thus people that only recognise shades of grey, will not be able to discern between the colours easily enough. [1]) >> Or could we consider using a checquered (gray/white) bitmap, like used >> in GIMP for transparent? > > Oooh - pretty :-) I can only concur. I've made a quick mock-up, see attached file. I am unsure if it is easy enough to discern the chequerboard pattern at the 6*22/4*16 scale of our icons, though. What do you think? Regards, Astron. [1] http://snook.ca/technical/colour_contrast/colour.html is helpful. Enter colours, then look for the WCAG AA(A) information.
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