Reducing tab size

[Luke Schierer]

On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 07:20:04PM +0200, Lukas Barth wrote:
> Luke Schierer schrieb:
> >On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 01:25:55AM +0200, Lukas Barth wrote:
> >>IMHO it's very easy to 
> >>distinguish between different colors (If you're not colorblind, of 
> >>course) - The "offline" icon is gray, the "available" is green, the 
> >>"dnd" is red, the "away" is blue or yellow - all of these colors can be 
> >>distinguished from two meters distance from the monitor.
> >
> >Colors are *hard.*  Even if you are not color blind.  I have long since
> >lost track of the number of bugs and complaints we have seen relating to
> >not being able to see this or that color against this or that
> >background.
> 
> Of course a red icon on a red background bay be hard, but most of the 
> icons (except for the green dot[tm]) have more than one color, don't 
> they? Coloring *text* in a certain way to indicate a status is a bad 
> idea, I agree, because red text on red background would just not be 
> visible, but I think that even the current DnD-Icon (which is mainly 
> red) should be identifiable against any red background - or am I wrong?
> 
> >  The only real work around to this is to make them
> >accessible to the gtkrc, but then you lose all ability to document the
> >colors.  This is *not* a good situation.
> 
> I think we're talking at crossroads: I'm talking about bringing back the 
> status icons in tabs, not coloring buddies' names according to their 
> state. Even if some user would have the idea of coloring his or her 
> tablist very fancy, the icons would give a good contrast, I think. (I 
> even tried it - see the content of 
> http://goerresonline.de/~tinloaf/pidgin/ ).
> 
> Lukas
> 

I got confused, all of my reply was aimed at colored text, not at icons.
Handling different color backgrounds is MUCH EASIER with icons ;-)

luke