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The history of "plastic" and the fact that they are box types rather than some sort of theme that changes all the boxes is indeed a bit problematic.
It grayed things out just to make color schemes designed to look like Windows 8 look nice on OS/X. Besides making the full gamut unavailable this also screws with code that attempts to make labels legible on various background colors and with fake antialiasing (and even real antialiasing) around images. This is hardly necessary now as in general design has become much more muted everywhere.
Technically it would be much better to always draw all boxes so the pixels in the largest area in the middle are the assigned color. There should also be no way to access the plastic boxes except by changing the theme.
It *may* be desirable to add a few box types that seem to be duplicates but don't change with the theme.
I also believe the default should be slimmed down to look more modern, but keep perfectly rectangular edges and interiors! (ie don't copy the crazy designers, keep this really clean looking).
>Just for my curiosity: Did you test your app with factor 0.0f and see
how it looked or do you only assume that 0.0 would be your best choice?
>I also didn't test what happens when you use a dark mode with inverted
brightness of background and foreground colors. There may be significant
differences...
You got me, I did just assume. But, for some reason now I'm trying it, I'm not having any joy implementing the patch (the behaviour isn't any different to before - I've tried different weightings). I may have borked some element of my build, so I can't see it.
However, in terms of what I personally want, I'm not so concerned about the border effect, generally I tend to use the plastic theme more as a "soft" gtk, i.e. without the black borders. However, you are right to point out that, in spirit, removing it completely is not very "plastic"-y. But I think that just lends more weight to the user specified degree of "plastic-averaging" that can be altered from the default value.
The idea of such a possibility in the gleam theme looks good too.
The gleam theme might also benefit from such
a user adjustable parameter. It would be nice to control the
amount of glint.
David
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