Personal suggestion for fixing the Linux situation

[Andre Garzia]

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com
> wrote:

> Andre Garzia wrote:
>
>  Despites my poor attempt at linux screenshots, take a look at:
>>
>> http://andregarzia.com/Screenshot.png
>>
>> This is Ubuntu 10.04 with default theme. Check the following issues:
>> * buttons are simply wrong both the default button and the push button.
>> * progress scrollbar has a tiny squared artifact inside next to the image
>> that actually fills it
>>
>> Yes we can use square buttons though... not the round ones...
>>
>
> Good eye - I've logged the squarish radio buttons as a bug:
> <http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=8856>
>
> Kevin told me on Monday that the default button appearance has been fixed
> for v4.5; should be evident in the next DP.
>
> Forgive my poor eyesight, but what's amiss with the standard button?


The standard button has a darker square around it that is not a part of the
button itself. As if it was being drawn as opaque and the whole square
occupied by the button is drawn in a darker or different tone, I know the
button is supposed to be darker but not the surrounding area, it is as if
the button occupies a rect with some padding, between this rect and the
actuall button, meaning the gap or space between the button border and the
control rect should be on the theme background and not a darker tone. This
is what causes the squarish thing on the radio and on the progress as well.
Controls are being drawn and sometimes the surrounding collors or bounding
rects are wrong.

If you are on your linux and has a windows or mac keyboard attached to it,
try pressing WINDOWN+N or CMD+N to turn your screen to a negative image, in
the negative image is easier to spot the tone differents and the wrong
rects. Press again to turn it back to normal.

For example see how round should be the interior border of the progress
inside the progress bar, the the square corners where they should not be?

Are those little cosmetic things that makes us need to go with custom
controls and that makes the whole process difficult. I am no scott rossi to
roll my own super beautiful controls, I need the GUI to work for me.

:D




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