Comment #2 on issue 3694 by [email protected]: Balloon message should be
opaque for better readability
http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=3694
I agree, the new burnt orange balloon color is too transparent and ugly,
near-illegible, IMO. The former cyan color+transparency was very nice, why
not keep that. (hmm, In the 1.1.1 image, there does not seem to be an
initializer for the BalloonMorph BalloonColor classvar, and there are no
senders of
BalloonMorph class>>setBalloonColorTo:
So possibly the initializer got lost a while back and we've been running on
an image constant for some time.)
I found the former nice cyan color is
rgb = 977210367
alpha = 242
TranslucentColor r:0.91 g:0.94 b: 1.0 alpha: 0.949
(note: slight glitch, that r:g:b:alpha: expression actually yields
alpha=241 rgb=977210367
It's constructed in the Squeak 4.1 BlueSmallLandColorTheme, as follows
balloonColor
^ (self light: 1) twiceLighter alpha: 0.95
where (self light: 1) in this case is:
(Color fromArray: #(0.85 0.9 1.0 ))
Squeak 4.1 looks to have a reasonably well developed Color system with
different themes. It's not clear that needs to be alternately
re-implemented, if that's what's happening here. At least we should keep
some of the good themes.
Please lets restore the legacy cyan balloon color for now, and I agree with
making this a themable SystemSetting.
The quick fix patch for 1.2rc2 is
BalloonMorph class>>defaultBalloonColor
^ (Color fromArray: #(0.85 0.9 1.0 )) twiceLighter alpha: 0.95
