User:Billw58/Project Window Border Options

In all cases the focus border has been brightened from standard.

Votes:

Pink 1: Bill -1, Peter -1, Ed +1, Gale -0.5, James -1 Current -2.5
Pink 2: Bill -1, Peter -1, Ed +1, Gale +0.75, James -1 Current -1.25
Green 1: Bill -1, Peter 0, Ed +0.5, Gale +0.25, James -1 Current -1.25
Green 2: Bill -1, Peter 0, Ed +0.5, Gale +0.5, James -1 Current -1
Green 3: Bill +0.5 Peter 0.75, Gale +0.75, James +0.5 Current +2.5
Green 3 with black numbers: Bill -1 Peter -1, Gale +0.25, James -1 Current -2.75
Orange 1: Bill +1, Peter +0.5, Ed -1, Gale -0.5, James +1 Current +1
Orange 2: Bill +1, Peter +1, Ed -1, Gale +0.25, James +1 Current +2.25
Orange 3
- for border style on track:
- for smaller numbers:
Brown: Bill ?, Peter ?, Ed ?, Gale -0.5, James +1 Current ??

Gale:01Jun12: Thanks, Bill. I pasted in the current brown for comparison. All are an improvement to me in looking cheerier and distinguishing the track focus better; the oranges are least good at dealing with the track focus. Steve has not voted yet but I think we can discount Pink 1, Green 1 and Orange 1. Would Bill be appeased by a darker, less fluorescent green? And will the colour of the numbers make a difference? I could see black working better than the blue we have now, especially with a green.

Bill 01Jun12: Added Green 3, which I could live with.

Gale 02Jun12: I prefer Green 3 to Green 2, so downgraded my vote for Green 2. I would like to see Green 3 with black numbers, as I think that might push me to +1 on it (I'm not +1 on any of these yet). In many ways Orange 2 is still better, but focus border clash looks bad to me. Did we ever try a bolder grey or black for the border colour? A bright number colour could still cheer it up enough with a black/grey. Fine tuning shades of blue/green/red may never be convincing.
Bill 04Jun12:
- I don't see the focus border "clash" with orange 2.
  - Gale I see it quite strongly with any colours that are similar but try to have a defined border (I am slightly colour blind). It might look better if it looked like an orange border as the toolbars, not an orange and black border.
    - Bill I deliberately left the black track border outside the coloured highlight so there's be some definition of and separation from the focus highlight. All options were done this way. I've added Orange 3 with no black between the track highlight and the focus highlight. It also shows smaller numbers as requested by Ed.
- I prefer the blue numbers as they are clearly not part of the interface.
- Orange 2 graphic now updated to show the numbers.
- Removed pink 1 and 2, green 1, and orange 1 since these are negative.
- Added Green 3 with black numbers