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Re: disabled text field drawing/colors/theming...
From: |
Matt Rice |
Subject: |
Re: disabled text field drawing/colors/theming... |
Date: |
Wed, 27 Dec 2006 10:06:03 -0800 (PST) |
--- Richard Frith-Macdonald <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 27 Dec 2006, at 15:33, Matt Rice wrote:
>
> > <bug-13916.diff>
> >
> > https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?13916
> >
> > mainly wondering about theming, we could use the
> normal white
> > background and just use the
> disabledControlTextColor
> > or hard code the lightGray color (i'd prefer not
> to for themeing)
> > or add another named color (extension
> disabledControlColor or
> > disabledTextFieldColor something)
> > or other comments on the patch...
> > <bug-13916.diff>
>
> I would have thought that a disabled
> controlBackgroundColor be the
> correct color to use for the background of a
> disabled text field ...
> as if the 'paper' of the field was no longer there.
this makes sense to me...
>
> Using disabledControltextColor would presumably be
> very bad ... as it
> would mean you draw background and text with the
> same color, and make
> the text unreadable.
>
hmm, i don't see that, controlBackgroundColor is
lightGray and disabledControlTextColor is darkGray
and it seems readable to me (so in fact its no change
from my patch except using the named color)
> Of course, the idea of disabled text fields being
> equivalent to the
> paper being taken away (so there is nothing to draw
> on) may be
> unintuitive to others ... but it does has the
> practical advantage of
> not needing a new system color.
>
I hadn't thought of it this way, thanks
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