Stefan Knorr (Astron) wrote 9 maart 2012
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])
I don't mind. it was just a simple demo and I liked the idea even more after running writer. Much less mouse clicks to mark some text, or a cell in calc or a table. :)
Or could we consider using a checquered (gray/white) bitmap, like used in GIMP for transparent?
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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?
I have not looked into this idea of me further than ventilating the thought. I also don't know how may bitmaps there are (and where) in the code for COL_TRANSPARENT, there are at least the buttons and the palette(s). But - (a large part of) the confusion was caused by my negligence, when I typed COL_GRAY instead of COL_TRANSPARENT for the initial colour on the button. In the attachement you can see 2 buttons, one with transparent (black border) and one with gray (no border). Perhaps this will be clear enough, especially when we decide to use COL_RED and COL_YELLOW as initial colours for the buttons? Winfried
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