Interviewed by CNN on 17/05/2012 14:59, W3BNR told the world: > I accomplished two things this last week: > 1. New Computer - now running Windows 7 > 2. Installed SM 2.9.1 on new computer > > Using the SM Default Theme when I 'hover' over an item, either the icon for a > drop-down menu or an item in the drop-down menu the text changes to white and > the background is the same as the existing background except lighter.. Very > hard to read what is selected. > > If I switch to SM Modern Theme this hovering action shows black text on a > light > blue background. Easy to read. > > Also on my Linux Mint machine running SM 2.9.1 Default theme the background is > black and the text is white. Also easy to read. > > This would seem be be a change in SM 2.9.1 not Win 7. Anyone else seeing > this? >
OK. First of all, let me make clear that I'm also using SM 2.9.1 on Windows 7 X64 SP1. For the purposes of this thing, I disabled the Personas mini-theme I was using and reverted to plain Seamonkey Default Theme. If Windows 7 is using the "Windows Classic" theme (the one that looks rather like Windows 2000, or perhaps Win98), the toolbars/menubars of SM take beige-ish shade, one very very slightly "warmer" (that is, beiger as opposed as greyer) to my eyes than the Windows Explorer toolbars. In this legacy mode, menus keep the same color (black on gray), except when you are hovering the mouse over a line of an opened menu -- then that line is displayed as white text over dark blue background. Hovering the mouse over a button or a *closed* menu only highlights it with an "outset" border, making it look like a button to be pressed. In the case of the toolbar icons, there are slightly different icons for the "normal," "hover" and "pressed" states. That's all consistent -- although not quite identical -- with the Windows theme. On "Windows 7 Basic" or "Aero" themes, the toolbars take on a purplish-blue shade, slightly "purpler" for some reason than the "Windows 7 Basic" shade I see on Windows Explorer (yes, even on Aero, even if Aero is using some other color shade for tinting the "glass" parts of the interface). The "shiny" effect on the menu bar, which seems intended to make it look slightly convex, is also a bit off. But it's generally consistent with the "Aero Basic" look. (Seamonkey does not support full Aero transparencies). On Aero, the "hover" pseudo-3D effect is slightly different, with rounded corners on the buttons (consistent with the Aero Basic look), but otherwise similar to the one in "Windos Classic." The menus themselves aren't light blue, but light gray (again, consistent with the Aero look -- blame whoever at Microsoft was responsible for the UI design if you consider this a lack o consistency, Seamonkey just emulated the look). When I hover the mouse over an opened menu, the horizontal bar highlight for the hovered option is a very light blue highlight/frame, but keeping the font black (well, except for "greyed out" items, when the highlight is also grey, with the border of the highlight a bit darker than the usual menu background). Again, consistent with the Aero look. (Aside: It seems that the theme guys didn't _quite_ manage to reproduce the Vista/Win7 look using the Mozilla toolkit, but they did get damn close. I only notice the slight differences between the native Windows theme and the emulated version in Seamonkey because I was looking for it -- I have been using SM on Win7 for about one year and a half and never had noticed those differences). Anyway, the text on a hovered item in a drop-down menu only turned to white (over a *dark blue* background, however) when using the Windows Classic theme. On the "Windows 7", the text remained black. I think gjikkl may be on to something; perhaps there is something wrong with the theming on your Windows, and the theme is not being able to interpret the cues from the OS correctly -- and ended up using an unholy mix of the "Wndows Classic" and "Aero" versions of the theme. A few things to try: - Open one of the bundled Windows applets (like Windows Explorer, or Notepad). Check the menu behavior on those and compare it to the Seamonkey behavior. - Change the theme to "Windows 7 Basic". Repeat the test above. - Change the theme to "Windows Classic." Repeat the test above. - Change back to one of the "Aero" themes - it may be the "Windows 7" theme, or any one of the others (the ones with transparent glass effects, I mean). Repeat the test above to see if the change/change back theme could have fixed the issue. Still didn't work? Check with your video card/embedded card maker to see if you aren't using an old version of their driver. Some earlier drivers are notoriously buggy. Still didn't work? Well, maybe it's something wrong in your Seamonkey profile. Try creating a clean SM profile, just for test purposes. If this clean profile does not display the problem then it's a profile issue. If not... well, I'm not sure what could be causing this either. In that case, you might want to file a Bugzilla bug for that. -- MCBastos This message has been protected with the 2ROT13 algorithm. Unauthorized use will be prosecuted under the DMCA. -=-=- ... Sent from my Amiga 1200. * Added by TagZilla 0.7a1 running on Seamonkey 2.9 * Get it at http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modifiedmailnews.html#tagzilla _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
