Goodbye awfull grey !!
Some times ago, we discussed Kendy and me, about the awfull colors used by "original" OpenOffice.org. The fact is, the Mac users hate the awfull default-grey coming with OpenOffice.org (what I perfectly understand), and I sometimes wonder who invented such ...colors :-)Because it's a long time request, and simple to modify the corresponding code, I had the idea to test.
The result is a (Mac Intel) build using a random (not completely ;-) ) color, like this one
Ok, I forgot to modify the pretty "blue" in the menus, but that's a begining ;-)
Why is it important ? Simple : no need to install anything else, this is just a one-line modification in the code !
Of course, this is just a try, but as you can see, it's maybe a good idea to propose funny colors for our Mac OS X builds ? Propose your colors !!
FYI : the one I proposed "as first test" uses 0xE0 0xFF 0xC0 hexadecimal strings, and you can invent yourself using The Gimp, for example.
More seriously, what Kendy told me was about " integrator ", to make custom changes on the fly. And IMHO, it should be possible to implement a tool for user customization.
Not sure this is correct there, instead of define colors using macros, I was thinking to a method using "accessors" : two pointers, one for read the color (used by application), and one for write the new one without conflict.
To be continued...
publié par ericb @ mardi, janvier 24, 2006
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