Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!jarthur!wilkins
From: wilkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Mark Wilkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Colour icon highlighting: SunDesk vs. System 7
Message-ID: <8549@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 21 Sep 90 01:30:09 GMT
References: <3165@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu> <15815@wpi.WPI.EDU>
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
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In article <15815@wpi.WPI.EDU> macman@wpi.WPI.EDU (Chris Silverberg) writes:
>In article <3165@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu> goz@vm.ucsf.edu.UUCP (Goz Lyv) writes:

>>Does anyone know if System 7 does indeed reverse the colours?
>
>Indeed it does... not sure if i'm happy with that either...


  First, System 7.0a9 does NOT reverse the colors.  What it does is invert
the BLACK AND WHITE icon, which does not produce odious results.

  Second, as of the Developer Conference in May, the Human Interface Group
had not decided how System 7 was going to integrate color in a number of
ways:

  1)  The issue of how to invert was not finally settled.

  2)  Guidelines regarding direction and brightness of the desktop's 
"lighting" were not finalized.

  3) It was not decided whether to make greyscale window frames and
scrollbars standard.  There is a way to patch a9 to make them greyscale, but
I don't know it.  Does anyone else, by the way?  I'd like to.

-- Mark Wilkins