safari appearance

[R.L. Grigg]

On May 1, 2008, at 9:12 AM, Karl Kuehn wrote:

> On May 1, 2008, at 9:09 AM, William Ehrich wrote:
>
>> Safari 3.1 has a dark background in its headers, making it hard to  
>> read the text. This is especially bad in tabs which are not  
>> currently selected. Is there a way to change that?
>
> 	Do you mean in the toolbars? If so, then there is no preference for  
> it, but you could probably mess around with the nib files to change  
> that. However, you might run into problems with the code signature  
> when modifying anything in the application package.

Yeah, the recent "black on dark gray" Pro schema that's popping up all  
over the place in OSX is awful, especially if you're running a monitor  
less than fully bright or have a higher than 2.2 gamma set.

For Safari, if you select another app to be active, the tabs do  
lighten up a bit to where they're readable. But when Safari is  
selected the non-current tabs are so dark on my calibrated monitor  
that it can be really tough to read them. You have to let the mouse  
hover over each tab a second till you get the tooltip text.

I guess filing a enhancement request with Apple is the only hope. They  
seem to have missed class in GUI 101 when they tell you "dont use  
foreground and background colors that are too similar". Not only is it  
bad feng shui, it makes you squint.

Russ