For some more data I see that there's some colors hard coded into mcs/class/System.Drawing/System.Drawing/KnownColors.cs The relevant colors for my case are: Window FF FF FF (this is black-on-white) WindowText 00 00 00 Highlight 31 6A C5 (this is white-on-bluish) HighlightText FF FF FF Which seems reasonable to me. However my app shows up in black-on-gray and white-on-gray. It's not obvious to me why.
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Maser, Dan Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 2:51 PM To: mono-list@lists.ximian.com Subject: [Mono-list] Concerns about system colors? I wonder if I should raise concerns about the System colors in mono? What I'm seeing is a little strange. My app code uses System colors for everything and looks as expected in Win32 but on linux mono it doesn't look natural. But it's not as clear what it *should* look like either. The colors for most apps are set in the /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults directory per application I suppose. So for example I see gnome terminal windows that are black-on-white and highlight text white-on-black. I have standard xterms that are black-on-grey and highlight white-on-black. Both of these seem normal because the two colors have a high contrast. However, my mono app has black-on-grey (which is ok) but highlights white-on-gray. The white-on-grey highlight looks pretty bad for two reasons: the white-on-grey isn't a high enough contrast plus the highlight background and non-highlight background are both grey which doesn't clearly indicate what's highlighted. Sorry for the long-winded explanation. I guess what I'm wondering foremost is if there's an some /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults resources file I can specify that will set the system colors I like? If not, can someone explain where the system colors come from? In case it helps my app draws its window as not highlighted: SystemColors.WindowText on SystemColors.Window highlighted: SystemColors.HighlightText on SystemColors.Highlight Thanks in advance for your time. Dan Maser
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