[GRASS5] d.m background color

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Hi,

just having a look at the new d.m green background color and trying to
find something a bit more muted.

Specifically I was trying to find something that matched the GRASS
website's green. (197:226:202)

"HoneyDew2" is about the closest I could spot.

I think the original "lightgreen" was too strong, maybe "HoneyDew2" is
too drab?

Anyway I have now changed d.m in CVS so the background color setting is
in one place at the start of d.m.tcl. You can set it to any of the
standard X colors. Explore options with "xcolor" or online:
  http://www.ce.unipr.it/cgi-bin/spaw/guelich/xcolors.cgi

I don't really think we need a menu item to let the user set this.
It's easy enough and educational for control freaks any A-type
personalities to edit the tcl file directly if they want to.

other d.m biz:
the barscale.tcl button doesn't display its help icon.
the labels.tcl button needs the new -i flag added.
for me the mouse-over ToolTips font is Huge.
fixed the intro.gif.. got corrupted again.
some list items get caps, others don't? (Legend 1, label 1, Chart 1, ...)
FreeType icon could use a graphics designer.

Otherwise you've got it all looking very spiffy.

cp display/d.m/display.gif vector/v.digit/icons/redraw.gif
? or place inside old v.digit monitor icon so it makes more sense?

Hamish

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Hamish,

Thanks for looking at the GIS Manager updates. I like your color. It's even
easier on the eyes and it's not grey.

I tried to fix the bugs you found. See below. I can commit these to the cvs
on Monday.

Michael
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From: Hamish <hamish_nospam@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 01:58:44 +1200
To: Michael Barton <michael.barton@asu.edu>
Cc: grass5 <grass5@grass.itc.it>
Subject: d.m background color

Hi,

just having a look at the new d.m green background color and trying to
find something a bit more muted.

Specifically I was trying to find something that matched the GRASS
website's green. (197:226:202)

"HoneyDew2" is about the closest I could spot.

I think the original "lightgreen" was too strong, maybe "HoneyDew2" is
too drab?

Anyway I have now changed d.m in CVS so the background color setting is
in one place at the start of d.m.tcl. You can set it to any of the
standard X colors. Explore options with "xcolor" or online:
  http://www.ce.unipr.it/cgi-bin/spaw/guelich/xcolors.cgi

I don't really think we need a menu item to let the user set this.
It's easy enough and educational for control freaks any A-type
personalities to edit the tcl file directly if they want to.

other d.m biz:
the barscale.tcl button doesn't display its help icon.

Fixed

the labels.tcl button needs the new -i flag added.
for me the mouse-over ToolTips font is Huge.

I didn't mess with this, so I don't know why it is so big on your system. It
looks fine on mine.

fixed the intro.gif.. got corrupted again.

Thanks. I didn't mess with this, so I don't know why it's a problem. Weird.

some list items get caps, others don't? (Legend 1, label 1, Chart 1, ...)

Fixed this to make it consistent throughout

FreeType icon could use a graphics designer.

If you can find one, give them a go at ALL the icons. :wink: I'm not much of an
artist in the first place. And trying to make something look good in 16x16
pixels...

Otherwise you've got it all looking very spiffy.

Thanks. I think it's easier to use.

cp display/d.m/display.gif vector/v.digit/icons/redraw.gif
? or place inside old v.digit monitor icon so it makes more sense?

Hamish

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> the labels.tcl button needs the new -i flag added.
> for me the mouse-over ToolTips font is Huge.

I didn't mess with this, so I don't know why it is so big on your
system. It looks fine on mine.

Maybe it is just my system. Better that it looks good on all Macs than
my custom linux setup anyhow.

> fixed the intro.gif.. got corrupted again.

Thanks. I didn't mess with this, so I don't know why it's a problem.
Weird.

I think this got broken a long time ago and was only fixed in the 6.0
release branch, not CVS-HEAD.

> FreeType icon could use a graphics designer.

If you can find one, give them a go at ALL the icons. :wink: I'm not much
of an artist in the first place. And trying to make something look
good in 16x16 pixels...

The main reason I mentioned that icon was a) the button is for making
the fonts look much better and the icon doesn't relfect this; b) as it
is the letters "FT" don't mean much, especially for the international
crowd. Maybe a fancy Gothic font or something so even if you don't get
the acronym you can figure out what it does. Sounds like a job for the
GIMP...

Why only 16x16? The "Digitize Map" and redraw icons are bigger that
that. 24x24?

[meanwhile, in another email]

To keep the GIS Manager command output xterm visually distinct from
the main GRASS xterm (and any other xterm), I've given it a
descriptive window name, colored it in the new GIS Manager color that
Hamish suggested, made it a bit smaller, and placed it in the upper
right hand corner.

Wherever possible, try not to hardcode in that sort of setting; pull it
from the d.m.tcl or elsewhere. It makes future maintenance that much
eaiser. e.g. At some point we may find that staring at Honeydew2 for too
long makes us all slighly queasy.

Hamish