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 thedefaultcolours 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) sothatusers 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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