Re: how SHOULD it look

From: Greg Hulands (ghuland..ac.com)
Date: Thu Jul 03 2008 - 18:39:17 EDT

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    what about making the opacity a bit softer?

    Looks great otherwise.

    greg

    On 03/07/2008, at 3:04 PM, Mike Schrag wrote:

    >>> yeah, it totally agree, just we shouldn't use the gel caps for
    >>> this as they are associated with a window, not a subsection of a
    >>> window.
    >>>
    >>> Maybe just a plus and minus in a black circle will be enough. I'm
    >>> not sure how other people use eclipse, but I rarely min/maximise.
    >> Oh ,yeah ... Definitely. I'm going to try out the "X" style that
    >> is used for closing tabs but drawing a +/- inside of it.
    > This isn't up yet -- Haven't done any of the rollover states:
    >
    > <pastedGraphic.png>
    >
    >
    > They're a little heavy, actually, next to the gear, which is the
    > same color but about half the visual weight .... I'm wondering if I
    > should do a gear inside of the same kind of circle, but I think I'd
    > have to lose the triangle to do it to keep it from looking weird.
    > The gear is also a 10 px diameter circle whereas close/plus/minus
    > are two pixel diameters. To beef up the gear means making it wider,
    > though, to maintain the same proportions with the triangle. I'm not
    > sure it will still be enough, either. Opinions? Am I being too
    > picky? Actually, I think the gear should definitely be 12 px
    > diameter now that I'm looking at it. It would look a lot better.
    > Time to head home, but I'll clean it up tonight. That might be
    > enough to just make it the same size. I'm curious what the X would
    > look like as that + turned 45 degrees also rather than the thinner
    > Safari-style X that it is now. I think at 45 degrees the arms might
    > not be long enough -- it might turn into a gray mush when it
    > antialiases that angle. Oh well.
    >
    > ms
    >



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