[TxMt] Re: strange bar above status bar

[Travis Dunn]

I'm not arguing that they are a bad thing. I just don't think it's necessarily a good direction to go down the "completely skinable" road. It's pretty easy to make a decent looking syntax coloring theme for the editor window, it's a completely different thing to make a decent looking interface theme.

There's enough work to be done to the UI itself, and (i think) it can be done in a way that works well with a light or dark themes. I personally would rather see the effort be put into making a well designed editor that a new user can sit down and think "man, this looks nice" than into something that can be hacked up to look like a rubbish XMMS theme.

Just my 2 cents though.

On Sep 15, 2012, at 1:25 PM, Fred B wrote:

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> On 15 Sep 2012, at 18:41, Travis Dunn <tdunn13 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Why worry about it? It's nice that all of the scrollbars are native and styled the same throughout the system.
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> "The same throughout the system" except when they're not, e.g. Aperture, iPhoto, Logic, just to name examples from Apple. ;)
> The problem is the white bars are really ugly with a dark background and even more now with a dark background Line Numbers gutter. This is not a problem in most app, as you can't change the background and it's light most of the time… In fact, the few non white background apps I have have non white scrollbars gutters.
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> I really hope I'll have an all dark background TM2 one day, although the first change needed is the File Browser. ;)
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