Closed Bug 30715 Opened 24 years ago Closed 24 years ago

Menu color scheme very non-ergonomic [modern skin]

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: Themes, defect, P3)

x86
Windows NT
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED FIXED

People

(Reporter: selmer, Assigned: german)

References

Details

Black background with pale green text is literally a pain to read.  Please pick
something in the same universe as standard.
we need some polish work overall to solve the contrast complains in different 
ui areas of the product. But i don't believe in follwing "standards" at all 
since nothing we have done in the past 5 years really fits into much of the old 
standards anyway. 
Assignee: shuang → german
I hope that translates as "something more user friendly will be found."  I don't 
really care about some standard, I just want to be able to read the menu 
choices.
QA Assigning non-confidential New/Assigned User Interface: Design Feedback bugs 
to Matthew Thomas (mpt@mailandnews.com).

Matthew Thomas is now the QA owner for the User Interface: Design Feedback 
component. (Bugs that involve UI issues in the Netscape-branded Mozilla browser 
should continue be QA assigned to elig@netscape.com.)
QA Contact: elig → mpt
Light on dark is almost *always* harder to read than dark on light. That's just 
the way it is.

(You don't believe in following standards at all, shuang? Hmmm. HTML 4.0? CSS1? 
CSS2? XML? ...)
Blocks: 29105
All menus have been made black text on grey no matter where they popup from, as 
the contrast was indeed found to be too low to be legible ( and also for 
providing a simpler skin design platform) 
BTW interesting that one person here saw it as green on black, wonder whether 
this was on Linux and therefore a color palette thing.
[as an aside  I think Shuangs observation is certainly right: many things done in 
last 5 years on the UI side at Netscape were successful because they did not 
blindly apply 'standards']
On MacOS build 200042808, menus coming from the taskbar (the `Mozilla' and `Open
Windows' menus) are still light on dark. Once those menus are changed to be
black on gray like the others, this bug can be marked as FIXED.
set to M18 for after PR2 fix or finalize.
Target Milestone: --- → M18
adding [modern skin] to subject line as this does not apply to classic.
I  believe this was fixed when all popup menus where made grey also. marking 
fixed, pls re-open if you find out otherwise.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Summary: Menu color scheme very non-ergonomic → Menu color scheme very non-ergonomic [modern skin]
All menus in Modern are now dark blue on light blue, which is reasonably easy to 
read. Verifying fixed.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Component: User Interface: Design Feedback → Themes
Product: Core → SeaMonkey
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