OK, here are links to two more problems - #1 [easy] - on Shiki-colors the title bars on inactive windows are too transparent so its' difficult to see where to grab. This is especially challenging in gimp where you have many open windows. http://code.bearfruit.org/~matt/dark/where-click.png
#2 [hard] - on many themes, for example Shiki is shown, its hard to tell where you can grab the window. Because there's no difference between what we know is the title bar and empty toolbar/menu bar space below it it's easy to miss the title bar and grab empty space. http://code.bearfruit.org/~matt/dark/grabby.png #2 is going to be a real challenge for dark themes but is pretty important. The fact that there's no visible diff between the title bar and the menu is cool looking because its so original. Maybe the reason its original is because no one has conquered the usability problem. :-( Before Hardy I think there was a patch that allowed us to have this capability without messing up the look by making some areas appear "grabbable." Anyone else remember this and know what happened? If not, then we may need to consider adding a bit of texture so that the title bar looks like something you can grab and the menu bar doesn't. Speaking of patches, anyone hear if we can now use bluring around title bar text? That would allow even active windows to have some transparency without messing up the readability of the text. -- Matthew Nuzum newz2000 on freenode -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
