Re: Opacity of Menus
Re: Opacity of Menus
- Subject: Re: Opacity of Menus
- From: John Stiles <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:20:45 -0800
Actually, Leopard seems to be going back in the direction of
more-translucent. However, the blur effect on sheets and menus makes it
much less harsh; the high-contrast areas were what caused the most
visual noise, and the blur mitigates that effect a lot.
R.L. Grigg wrote:
You'll notice that Apple started out with very transparent menus and
sheets, but has moved slowly towards more and more opaqueness. Just
wish they'd just pound a stake in it already and get it over with and
go fully opaque. I've never understood why menus and sheets should be
semitrnasparent anyways, its hard on the eyes, and to use the
Accessibility contrasting to make them opauqe pretty much washes out
the color balance of the entire screen and ruins color calibration.
Russ
On Dec 21, 2007, at 8:48 AM, John Stiles wrote:
Agreed. If you want menus and sheets to be opaque, Accessibility has
a slider that will do exactly this ("Enhance Contrast") and will do
it universally, not just for your one app. Problem solved.
Uli Kusterer wrote:
Am 21.12.2007 um 2:25 schrieb Keith Wilson:
Apple has done something bad. A substantial number of my customers
belong to "the older and wiser" generation and they do not all
still have 20/20 vision so they need the screen to be crisp and
clear. I expect that Apple will sooner or later fix this problem by
exposing the alpha component of context menus to us developers but
in the meantime I need a fix, which is what I'm looking for on this
forum.
In general, what you want to do is use the ColorSync assistant (I
think there's a button in the "Monitors" PrefPane that shows it), to
calibrate your screens correctly. Particulary Gamma curve and
brightness/contrast. If you do that, not only will your graphics
display correctly in *all* applications, no, you'll actually see the
transparency Apple intended.
Cheers,
-- M. Uli Kusterer
"The Witnesses of TeachText are everywhere..."
http://www.zathras.de
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