[Bf-funboard] (Luke) selected/active/colours/etc.

[Thorsten Wilms]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 11:17:39PM +1000, Luke Wenke wrote:

> Hi Thorsten,
> According to the subject line, you've replied to the message I wrote to Matt
> and ton. I also wrote a message to you though (which has your name in
> brackets in the subject line.)

Be asured I was aware to which message I replied. What I wrote refers to 
all your messages on this topic. And threads on this list aren't private, or 
are they?

> In my previous reply to you I explained that cameras (except the centres)
> and part of most lights are in fact black when they aren't selected. This
> was in reply to your statement "Don't know if it would be ok to paint
> unselected lamps and cameras all black."

I checked with blender 2.28 on Linux:
All kinds of lamps are always yelow when unselected. That is, the circles, 
not the lines. But I think of the centre dots with circles beeing the lamps, 
with those lines as helpers (providing extra information).

> ...
>
> In my Matt/ton message I did say what the current colours were (in a little
> list) and gave two alternative colour schemes - "the red active scheme" and
> "the white active scheme".

The part with the current colors is problematic. Seems your blender is different 
from mine.

But I'm guilty of not having read your message down to the lists. You started 
with some of those sentences I can't follow through, so I wrote that message.
Sorry.

> The parts that have ">" are people's previous messages... my replies don't
> have a ">" before them. Maybe that was confusing you...

Hey, I'm on several mailinglists for quite some time now ...

> As far as colour usage guidelines go, I am mainly concerned with object
> selection rather than other modes like editmode, posemode, etc.
> - Luke.

Color usage should be consistent and well thought out across all modes and 
parts of the interface. So it would be good to think how selection colors 
relate to everything else.


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Thorsten