Re: Can we add an option to set overall colors in NB 5?

> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 11:25:45 -0400
> From: Thomas Wolf <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [nbui] Can we add an option to set overall colors in NB 5?
> 
> 
> The new Options dialog is pretty nice and I appreciate the fact that
> now I can set default foreground/background colors for all languages
> for the editor.  But I'm wondering how to set the background color of
> the various other Netbeans windows (e.g. Projects, Navigator, Output,
> etc.?) As it stands, the "Fonts and Colors" category shouldn't be a
> top-level category under "Options" - since it's specific to the source
> editor (it should go under the "Editor" category.)
> 
> Will this change?  More importantly to me, how do I change those window
> background colors?  Do I still have to delve into some arcane
> configuration file?
> 
> Am I the only one who can't stand white? :-)
> 


No you're not.

After using newer aqua L&F for a while I get eye-strain. 
So no more putting off: 

http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=67463


My C++ compiler engineer friend Lawrence next-door is even more
sensitive so he had trouble with even the metal L&F. That's
one of his must-fixes before he even tries an NB-based IDE.

While I could sympathise with Lawrence I hadn't "felt" the strain
myself. What set me over the edge interestingly enough wasn't the
Backgrounds since in metal L&F backgrounds are also white, but the edges
becoming so bright. Now _everything_ is bright. because of this border
effect I'm curious to know whether being able to turn down the BG's
will help or just cause othe rproblems ... I remembere reading an article
on the early IBM PC monitor where they were proud of how the monitor
graded from dark sreen to lighter plastic shell to lightest outer plastic
shell to provide visual transition from supposedly brighter surroundings to
the darker inner screen.

I know of   computer guy who is albino. The lack of pigmentation
extends into the eye so their eye, instead of being optically black
like cameras and telescopes is white. This is one way their
vision gets affected. Dimming things helps.

I raised this on nbui a while a go with the mind to verify my "theory"
that this whitening happens because of the shift to laptops
and more work being done in high-ambient-light environments.
In general if your surroundings are brighter your iris contracts and
then the ultra-bright IDE shouldn't cause as much eye-strain. 

But I'd still rather have controls on the IDE than to have to come out
of my "cave".