Re: Randy's UI patch (hack) for 2.0 Final Release

["Eric Bordeau" <ebordeau@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I love the new look of the editor tabs.  It's easy to tell which editor is active, now.  And the drop shadow makes a world of difference.  The only problem I see with the drop shadow is that when the editor loses focus (say, when you click in the Navigator view) the text in the tab turns black.  Add the drop shadow to that and it looks all fuzzy, like in this screenshot.  Is there a way to turn off the drop shadow if the editor loses focus?

 

 

 

 

"Randy Hudson" <hudsonr@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:ak1c2i$qig$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx...

> 
"Todd Chambery" <chambery@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:ak14bl$nj4$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx...
> > Great work, Randy!  I've been using the original 
for a while and really
> > appreciate removing the sidebar (I open most 
perspectives in a new
> window).
> >
> > I have one nit 
though with the new patch: I don't really like the
> "hollowed
> 
> out" (for lack of a better description) text on the selected editor 
tab.
> Is
> > there any possibility of a preferences 
page?
> 
> Eclipse's original appearance is white text to display 
the selected editor
> tab.  But white is not guaranteed to contrast 
very well with
> "WindowBackgroundGadient".  What I have done is to 
create a "drop shadow"
> effect so that if the white text is on top of a 
light-colored background,
> you can still read the text.
> 
> 
The typical title of a Shell takes up much less than half of the 
"gradient",
> so the second color could event be the same as the text 
color.  But in
> Eclipse, the tab label appears on top of the whole 
gradient, plus the
> default control background color, which might not 
have good contrast either.
> 
> > Thanks,
> >
> 
> Todd
> >
> >
> > "Randy Hudson" <hudsonr@xxxxxxxx> wrote in 
message
> > news:ak06dr$6db$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx...
> > This is not an official patch and 
does not fix any bugs.  The improvements
> > are aesthetic, 
IMHO.
> > <snip>
> >
> >
> 
>