28577 - [Mac] Installer doesn't use platinum appearance

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, defect, P2)

Description

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Build: 2000021608

To reproduce:
* In the Appearance tab of MacOS's Appearance control panel, select the
  Appearance `Apple platinum' (if it is not selected already).
* Start the Mozilla installer.

What you should see:
* A light gray window with white/dark gray bevels.

What you actually see:
* A white window with light gray bevels.

Comment 1

[Sean Su]

reassigning to sgehani

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

updating mac mozilla installer QA contact to me

Comment 3

[timeless]

I hope someone can help here.

Comment 4

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

cc self

Comment 5

[Andrew Thompson]

Samir, 

Did you deliberately decide to make the installer appear white out of preference?

There are a lot of the old style pre appearence 'Xctb' resources in the installer 
(which are largely being ignored on my Mac OS 9 system, I can delete them right 
out of the app with no effect) and the code is sprinkled with calls to

ForeColor(whiteColor) etc. which is what is producing the look and feel that it 
has.

We'll ignore GreyButton.cp for now (!)

If the installer is intentionally non appearance compliant then, well, thats a 
design decision. Not one I like, given you'll have to recode everything for Aqua 
on Mac OS X. 

Otherwise if we want to fix this some basics can be found in bug 46174.

Comment 6

[Samir Gehani]

Nope, not deliberately white.  White because we never received a transparent
logo at which point I had planned to go and fix everything to be Appearance
Manager compliant.  Too late now I guess.  Unfortunate, I know.

When making these changes for the next rev I'll seek all you Appearance gurus'
advice.

Comment 7

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Unsetting missed milestones to aid triage queries.

Comment 8

[Samir Gehani]

Almost there.  Need to replace the GreyButton.cp hack and fix the custom list
box some more.

Comment 9

[Samir Gehani]

Over to Syd for installer bug triage

Comment 10

[Frankie]

Mozilla CFM build is dead; should this bug go with it?

Comment 11

[Frankie]

Quoth Steve Dagley: "The Mac installer code was never Carbonized and there is no
intention to ever change that."

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