[jira] [Comment Edited] (PIVOT-689) Finishing touches on Skin Colors

["Sandro Martini (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Sandro Martini edited comment on PIVOT-689 at 9/1/14 1:20 PM:
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Another small change proposed: by default we use the font "Verdana 11", but with higher resolutions etc, what do you think on using "Verdana 12" instead ? I just tried on Windows 7 and the text seems (a little higher, ok :-) ) better.
But currently I'm not able to make some test in other platforms (even Windows XP), someone is able to do these check for me ?
No objections so committed.

Last, under Terra we have some examples of skin configuration files, but I guess if someone really used these files ... and now (with changes of this issue) they could not be so visually good; so I'm thinking to move them into our demos subproject, unless objections in a few days.
No objections, so committed the change: they are now in the same package, but in the Demos subproject. In the original package and place now there are only default and dark.

Then maybe add (under Demos, with others) even a new combination derived from Twitter Bootstrap default colors (used in many sites), could be for Pivot Applications/Applets to better visual integration with them.
Reminder for the future: check what gray color use for different background here (default pure white), and maybe use green for list/table/tree/alement selection here; original colors here are: blu #428BCA (66,139,202), cyan #5BC0DE (91,192,222), orange #F0AD4E (240,173,78), red #D9534F (217,83,79), etc.


was (Author: smartini):
Another small change proposed: by default we use the font "Verdana 11", but with higher resolutions etc, what do you think on using "Verdana 12" instead ? I just tried on Windows 7 and the text seems (a little higher, ok :-) ) better.
But currently I'm not able to make some test in other platforms (even Windows XP), someone is able to do these check for me ?
Unless objections I can commit this small change so you can test, and if needed we can then revert ...

Last, under Terra we have some examples of skin configuration files, but I guess if someone really used these files ... and now (with changes of this issue) they could not be so visually good; so I'm thinking to move them into our demos subproject, unless objections in a few days. 
And maybe add even a new combination derived from Twitter Bootstrap default colors (used in many sites), could be for Pivot Applications/Applets to better visual integration with them.

Comments ?

> Finishing touches on Skin Colors
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>
>                 Key: PIVOT-689
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIVOT-689
>             Project: Pivot
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: wtk-terra
>            Reporter: Sandro Martini
>            Assignee: Sandro Martini
>             Fix For: 2.1, 2.0.5
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>         Attachments: ColorSchemeBuilder - dark.launch, ComponentExplorer - dark.launch, KitchenSink - Dark.launch, pivot689.patch, pivot_colorschemebuilder_dark_flat_screencapt.png, pivot_colorschemebuilder_dark_screencapt.png, pivot_colorschemebuilder_default_flat_screenshot.png, pivot_colorschemebuilder_default_screencapt.png
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> Finishing touches on Skin Colors, some info here (and  more later here in JIRA): https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIVOT-579
> See if even the final part of this (not implemented) could be useful: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIVOT-245
> And there was another discussion (I have to find where, in nabble) is change some color index usage to have better visual appearance (of course retrofitting existing behavior when/if possible).
> Note that probably after these little changes, custom color json files should be a little updated.
> And a little thing on this:
> now only Tooltips doesn't use a palette color (they use an hard-coded color) ... what do you think to make them use the yellow-ish color at
> palette index 19 (or one of is variants, the 18 or 20) ? And use a similar (yellow-ish but a different color index, if possible) color on warnings.
> I could adapt a little that color in all Pivot palettes to look similar to what should be ... tell me.
> For example, someone remember the background color in Swing Tooltips (ok not the best in graphic design and colors :-) ), but with this little change we could also have this little feature, where in most palettes will be yellow-ish, but where needed could be different.
> Added some documentation in the Terra package JavaDoc file on color palette usage in the Terra Skin, to help anyone wants to write their custom colors, and then removed, probably the best place for this is in a Tutorial.
> Last, in ColorSchemeBuilder (and maybe even in the Kitchen Sink), add some Tooltips to see how they happen, but see where they makes sense.
> And maybe in ColorSchemeBuilder move some elements in the Tab2 or Tab3, grouping them by similar components (some componets should be added there).



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