Aqua suggestion

toonetown · Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 10:30 am Post subject: Aqua suggestion

For the "Aquafication" of neooffice, I think it would be useful to set the default font and application background color as described at http://neowiki.sixthcrusade.com/index.php/NeoOffice_Appearance_Customization

Just as a suggestion...

-Nathan

sardisson · Town Crier Joined: Feb 01, 2004 Posts: 4588

We've discussed the font issue in one of the long threads; the problem is that Lucida Grande looks really bad in most cases.

Besides that, I'm not sure how easy it is to hack default prefs. The grey color of the app (toolbars, etc.) is set according to the OS; it's just that "background well" around documents (and Wizard backgrounds that we can't change) that's still a problem.

Smokey

pluby · The Architect Joined: Jun 16, 2003 Posts: 11949

OPENSTEP · Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 11:36 pm Post subject:

Yes, changing the font this close to release is a bad idea since that will cause a lot of the metrics for controls to change. We're still tweaking metrics and probably will need to continue to do so up until the Beta EAP release (and Final).

FWIW, OOo's control layout management is pretty bad to start with, and NWF only implemented dynamic sizing and layout for a very small subset of controls.

ed

toonetown · Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 10:59 am Post subject:

I didn't mean that it should be changed right now - I was merely suggesting that it would be nice to change at some point.

However, the arguments against it are pretty strong - it's not a big deal, it was just a brainstorm idea that I had...I didn't know that it had been discussed before.

-Nathan

sardisson · Town Crier Joined: Feb 01, 2004 Posts: 4588

Sorry, I didn't mean to growl, either Sad

Smokey

jakeOSX · Ninja Joined: Aug 12, 2003 Posts: 1373

what did i say about keeping smokey happy???

toonetown · Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 10:51 am Post subject:

...if Smokey ain't happy, ain't nobody happy... ?

Smile

-Nathan

sardisson · Town Crier Joined: Feb 01, 2004 Posts: 4588

Well, it wasn't Nathan making me unhappy; he was just feeling the brunt of it Sad

Guest · Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 1:31 pm Post subject:

One of the things that has always bugged me was how when the strip of icons ended, so did the gradient that backgrounds them. I t should be simple enough to simply change some settings to make that gradient take up the whole width of the window, instead of just behind the icons.

The other little thing that bugs me (yes, I know it's superficial) is how in every resizable window, the growbox lacks transperancy, and so appears to be in front of anything in the window (see the bottom right corner of the "help" window).

sardisson · Town Crier Joined: Feb 01, 2004 Posts: 4588

Those are both design flaws in OOo's Windows-oriented designâ€”and, unfortunately, nothing that seems "simple enough" ever is in the world of OOo... Razz

Smokey