Re: Default colors vs. gamma

[Nicolas Roard]

Le 11 oct. 04, à 08:22, Dennis Leeuw a écrit :

> Alexander Malmberg wrote:
> > Hi,
> > A common complaint about GNUstep is that it isn't pretty enough, and 
> > a common response in #GNUstep is "fix your gamma". Since it seems 
> > that most users don't set their gamma properly, I wrote the following 
> > patch:
> > http://w1.423.telia.com/~u42308495/alex/systemColorGamma.patch
> > which simply does gamma adjustments on the default system colors 
> > before using them. The GSSystemColorGamma default controls the gamma, 
> > and defaults to 1.6, which makes things bright and cheerful for 
> > non-gamma-adjusted users. (Users who have adjusted their gamma will 
> > want to set this default to 1.0 or things will be _very_ bright. :)
> > So, do we want to do this? If so, what do we want the default value 
> > to be? 1.6 is nice for users who haven't set their gamma, but not so 
> > nice for users who have set it; I'm not really happy about forcing 
> > users who have set things up properly to set a default just to tell 
> > GNUstep that their system is set up properly, but if this makes 
> > GNUstep prettier to other users, it might be worthwhile.
> > Thoughts?
>
> I agree that forcing a setting onto somebody that has setup his/her 
> system the way it should be is not the way to go. We could add a note 
> to the setup documentation that tells people to set the default to 1.6 
> if they haven't adjusted their gamma settings.

I disagree... most people (by far) don't set their gamma, and we should 
thus provides by default the 1.6 setting.
People that had calibrated their screen are capable of modifying a 
defaults (and ideally we should have some Preferences module for 
setting it :-)

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Nicolas Roard
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