[dev] [commits] Horde branch master updated. 58ef1ae895b31312073ba91b81ad1b3dfc88c02f

[Michael J Rubinsky]

Quoting Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:

> Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:
>
>> Zitat von Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:
>>
>>> commit 58ef1ae895b31312073ba91b81ad1b3dfc88c02f
>>> Author: Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at curecanti.org>
>>> Date:   Thu Sep 8 22:43:50 2011 -0600
>>>
>>>   Revert "Don't dim the popdown arrow."
>>>
>>>   This reverts commit 11edc61ae65d4ac47d683ead01ff4dd5cdbae405.
>>>
>>>   Not sure why this was committed; without it, there is no visual
>>>   representation when hovering over the dropdown image.
>>
>> And why would that be necessary? The idea was to make the arrow  
>> more visible, because in dimmed mode, the contrast to the  
>> background is really low, at least in the Silver theme. This could  
>> be one of the reasons why it was missed easily. And the hover  
>> effect isn't really necessary, especially since we still have it  
>> for the actual button. It's just eye-candy.
>
> Without it, I had no representation that the drop-down button did  
> anything.  Quite honestly, I thought the button was broken yesterday  
> when I updated.
>
> Not that it is determinative, but pretty much every other UI i have  
> looked at has some kind of hover-effect on a popdown arrow like  
> this.  So just like the original buttons: the theory is correct,  
> it's just the graphical representation that may need further tweaking.

My .02:

I like having a hover-effect, but I think the default styling of the  
popdown (and to be honest, the actual Reply/Forward/etc... buttons as  
well) is way too light. To me, they look too much like disabled form  
buttons. Maybe a darker color for the text, and either darken (or  
widen?) the button borders on hover?

-- 
mike

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