[kepler-dev] background color

[Shawn Bowers]

Hi,

I think it would be good to try to document some of the GUI look and
feel decisions using the Kepler Plone GUI area
(https://kepler-project.org/developers/incubation/GUI).  This could
just be a single page with a list of items (like color for
backgrounds) and the current decisions (with rationale) regarding
them. So, e.g., if a decision has been made on some item, then
changing it should only be done after a discussion (because it would
require changing a prior decision). This might help mitigate changes,
re-changes, etc., and at least provide minimal documentation of what
decisions have been made.

Thoughts?

Shawn

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 7:56 AM, Matt Jones<jones at nceas.ucsb.edu> wrote:
> Yeah, this has been bugging me too.  Lets change the background back
> to the white background that we designed for the Kepler UI.  Anyone
> know who made this UI change?  Can you change it back please?
>
> Matt
>
> On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 6:32 AM, Christopher Brooks<cxh at eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>> Hi Norbert,
>> In Ptolemy, drag in a LocalPreferences attribute from Utilities.
>> Then set the Background color.
>>
>> It appears that Kepler does not have LocalPreferences in the list
>> of attributes, so I did Tools->Instantiate Attribute and then
>> entered ptolemy.actor.gui.PtolemyPreferences
>>
>> When I hacked in the -printPDF facility, I added some code that
>> sets the background, see for example
>> ptolemy.actor.gui.ConfigurationApplication.
>>
>> The place where PtolemyPreferences is used to set the background is in
>> ptolemy.vergil.basic.BasicGraphFrame
>>
>> _Christopher
>>
>> Podhorszki, Norbert wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Where can I set the GUI's background back to white?
>>> After years of making nice screenshots for (white bg) papers and slides, I
>>> just cannot stand the current gray background.
>>>
>>> There is a gray background color defined in
>>>  gui/src/org/kepler/gui/frame/KeplerGraphTableau.java
>>> but that seems to control only some empty areas and the toolbox.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Norbert
>>>
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