[Bf-taskforce25] Widget Colouring Suggestion

[Brian Staub]

ok, here's my mockup.  first, i think pastels really help reduce distraction as opposed to bright colors.
from left to right, my favorites are 1, 4, and 5.  i think keeping color directly off the widgets will help in readability and help avoid having to adjust text color.
my absolute favorite is #5--i think it is least distracting and very communicative...as far as functionality the "badges" could just be visual aide and you 
wouldn't *have* to right-click on them to bring up the keyframe menu, but could click on the button as well.

http://invertednormal.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/widgetcolors01.png



Hi,

> These special state-widgets, just like text outside buttons, work 
> nicely in layouts that are strictly displayed as a list

Such features can be part of "Style" definitions, so it can be added 
where appropriate.

Further there's plenty of subtle ways to explore; here's a quicky I 
did, the button outline code is a quad strip, so can be any width;
http://download.blender.org/institute/rt.jpg
Or just color items in button:
http://download.blender.org/institute/rt2.jpg

Still; a problem with color coding remains that you have drop (part of) 
the freedom to assign colors to visualize widget types. Color encoding 
is very limited and with more than just a few colors it starts looking 
messy and loses meaning.

-Ton-

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