78789 - New Modern skin looks awful with 8bit color setting

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: Themes, defect)

Description

[laurel]

Using may02 commercial trunk

New Modern skin needs work for 8bit color. Screenshot attached.

Comment 1

[laurel]

Attachment: new modern 8bit gif

Comment 2

[marlon bishop]

modern will never be 8bit compatible. try switching to classic.  that's another 
reason it's there.  I'd be interested to know however, if the system 
automatically detects 8bit color and switches the default theme accordingly.  
that would be the bug to file.

Comment 3

[laurel]

Seth suggested I log this bug. Yes, classis was fine in that setting. 

Comment 4

[marlon bishop]

we could create the theme all over in 8bit, but it would take several months of 
time, and i don't know if it would be worth it since not many machines are being 
sold with 8bit color these days. 

Comment 5

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

it's not a machine issue, it's a display (mac / win32) / X server (unix)
settings issue.

I'm not sure what UI rules there are for recommend supported pixel depth.
but nothing says we can't make a good looking skin that only works well in high
color settings.

thinking outside of the PC, some devices have 8 bit (or less) restrictions.
for them, we can say:  use classic, or come up with a low-color modern skin.

since we provide a skin that does work on 8 bits (classic), feel free to mark
this wontfix.

interesting footnote, you could run 4.x unix in monochrome mode!

Comment 6

[marlon bishop]

low color modern8bit is not possible. ever.  we do have the option to create a 
new theme which is 8bit though, i've thought about it before.  i wouldn't call it 
classic or modern, it would have to be a seperate new theme called "compliant".  
We are talking about doing a new theme based on modern for mozilla, which has a 
more space economy and possibly 8bit if that's desired. 

 marking wontfix 

Comment 7

[Colin Phillips]

I think it only makes sense to make a decent 8 bit compatible skin that looks a
little more fancy than classic.  If the ultimate goal of the embed project is to
actually be embedded in small devices, you have to expect it to run under no
more than 8 bits in many cases.  We've been looking at classic for 4 or more
years now, people who are new to embedded devices are going to see "netscape 4"
on thier device (for all they know) and wonder...

Comment 8

[marlon bishop]

embedded devices are footprint constrained. it is my understanding that they 
don't include XUL, which precludes the use of themes entirely 

Comment 9

[Colin Phillips]

Where is it documented that wont be using XUL???

Comment 10

[laurel]

marking verified -- old invalid or wontfix resolutions