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Subject: 1.4 wish - readable window titles
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Date: 24 Aug 89 22:37:19 GMT
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With all the 1.4 wishes flying around, I've been wondering why nobody else
has mentioned the current method of displaying titles for windows which
do not own the input device (unselected if that's a better term)

Currently, unselected windows have their title "ghosted", like a disabled
gadget image.  I find these titles a bit hard to read.  This is fine for
applications which have only one window - if it's ghosted you're not going
to get input sent to that application.  The problem is with multiple-window
applications (which have probably opened their own screen)  The extra windows
present different "views" of application activity, and many times the
application will take input from any window, not just the selected one.

The ghosting could also be considered inconsistent with the methods used to
display other gadgets like menu items.  A ghosted menu item cannot be selected,
yet a ghosted window title bar can be.

I would suggest that the title bar of the selected window be highlighted in
some form (complemented, reverse-video, etc) and unselected windows retain
a readable (non-ghosted) title.  This is probably late for 1.4, and I bet
it would change Intuition rather than 1.4's Workbench modifications, but
it seems to me to be an improvement.

So am I sniffing glue, or what?

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