With the grey alternate rows, the grey cursor is hard to distinguish, particularly if you have one of the alternate grey design element selected (in this screen shot the LSLibraryOne is selected).
Subject: good thought
forwarded to UI design for a new plan!
Subject: Since these are clearly a kind of view, why not expose the view properties so we can change them?
I’m not saying you have to give us full design capability on those views (though it would sure be nice to be able to edit them, along with the outlines that are the categorization of elements) but just the properties that govern appearance would be helpful. Right now, the alternating gray/white is just horrid.
Subject: actually, they are not built as a view
they are built from the design collection data, which has no visual settings of its own. We build a list control of our own to represent it.
Preferences, though, could be a way to customize, or we can also just do a better job of choosing colors!
Subject: Michelle, Andrew, what OS color schemes are you using?
We are pulling colors from the OS theme so that we can do the right thing in high contrast, etc. For some themes we are not making good choices. For example, the “Blue” theme is not good (we have an spr for this). But on my monitor, using the “Silver” theme in Windows XP, it looks fine (not too much contrast in alternating rows and the selected row can be clearly differentiated).
But we may need to look at doing this a different way if there is too much variation in the way colors are displayed.
Thanks.
Subject: Using a theme called ‘Zune’
I didn’t realise that DDE was picking up OS theme colours. That’s useful to know.
If this is the case then going forward it would be useful to know what Windows elements affect which DDE element (so for example I might need to change my active or inactive window title colours - which are not very different), etc.
If we know it’s an OS theme issue and what to change then it is up to us.
Subject: This is what I see
Pretty hard to read. I’m using the Windows Royale Noir theme.