[kepler-dev] background color

[Matt Jones]

Hi Shawn,

Previous GUI design discussions and decisions were archived on the old
wiki, and were moved to the new web site here:

https://kepler-project.org/developers/incubation/GUI/archive/

One page in particular gives something of a synopsis of the decisions,
although it is not completely up to date nor absolutely complete:
https://kepler-project.org/developers/incubation/GUI/archive/visual-redesign-notes

In addition, we never completed all of the work we agreed upon, as M.
Brooke left before completing the work.  Many dialog changes and other
GUI changes that we designed still are only represented on the design
diagrams in that archive area.  I still plan on getting this done
somehow, but not sure how to fund it now, and of course the designs
need to be reconsidered in light of newer UI work that has transpired
since.

Matt

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Shawn Bowers<sbowers at ucdavis.edu> wrote:
> 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
>>>>
>>>>  Norbert Podhorszki
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