Jorge wrote:
The default theme in dillo is kind of a consensus over the years. This is, when changes were proposed, the most voted one (or less objected) got to be the default (same for the website).
I think we have a strong tendency to defer to you in general and end up with what Jorge likes, even if that's not your intention particularly. And of course the community is so tiny these days that we often get one vote or zero votes on something, dispiritingly enough. Last year, the opinions presented on the list on ripping out the hardcoded colors were: Benjamin brought it up, iirc, having done so with his fork. I liked the idea. Johannes liked the idea.
* The default colors should not be changed without consensus.
It should be quite similar except that there's some white where we customarily have a greenish color. I'm not too crazy about the white, but I didn't want to make it the same greenish merely because it's what we had because then we'd all not notice it and/or accept it as the way it's always been. (The white of course being fltk's default.) I'm thinking that we come up with defaults for foreground and the two backgrounds and maybe selection color, and then put in contrast() and lighter() and darker() as necessary for visibility and pleasant appearance, but base everything on that set of colors instead of hardcoding anything to green or blue or whatever.
* The patch should provide a way to keep the previous default (i.e. How do I get my colors/pixmaps back?)
PS: WRT the second point, I find the inactive pixmaps too "live" for my taste (and thus prefer the pixmaps).
I initially wanted to make the inactive pixmaps look better with greyish or darkish backgrounds, and I used Fl_Image's inactive(), which just dims the pixmap down with some background color. But they didn't look inactive enough, so I went the desaturate() route after all, which is rather like using the pixmaps... So I haven't come up with anything that I'm happy enough with to really want to _advocate_ for.
PS2: Is good to have the input/dialog backgrounds configurable but the defaults should be voted.