Re: OW 5.5 Screenshots

On Apr 13, 2006, at 12:48 AM, Clytie Siddall wrote:

> I'm looking at Mail now, and when it's not the active app, the title 
> bar is much lighter, and all the buttons are much lighter, have no 
> colour. Scroll bars and selected text have no colour.
>
> It's really obvious, to me, which window is active, and I'm not that 
> visually perceptive. What is indistinct about dark vs. light and 
> coloured vs. uncoloured?

When I have 2 messages open, the only places that differ are the arrow 
part of 2 the 2 drop downs (not sure if they're even present if you 
don't have multiple accounts and multiple sigs) and the title bar.  
Everything else is pixel identical.

You can differentiate the title bars, I'm not saying it's some kind of 
impossible feat, it's just that every patch has lessened the difference 
between active and inactive window titlebars.  And if your focus is on, 
say, the message part of the mail the title bar's not the first thing 
you see.

But when you look back to your screen after taking a phonecall or 
looking at a different comp and there are a couple of ichat windows 
open, itunes, and a mail message it takes a few seconds to figure out 
where  letters will show up if you start typing.  That wasn't the case 
in OS9 or in early days of X.

~BS