Re: FVWM: picky picky : shadow/hilight colors

From: Dominik Vogt <dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 16:03:27 +0100

On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 02:18:38PM +0100, Jos wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'd like to mimic the CDE enviroment in the
> 'solaris style' using fvwm2 as much as possible. This one has mwm type
> borders and has a red-ish title background color and border color when
> the window has the input focus. So in fvwm, I chose MWMBorders and I
> chose the
> right background color (I used a sreenshot and gimp to determine that).
>
> Now, the window layout looks exactly like in the solaris screenshot.
> However, the shadow and hilight colors of the border look different.
> (With
> this, I mean the colors that are calculated from the background color,
> to
> give the borders a 3d look)

If someone could come up with an algorithm that duplicates the CDE
shadow/hilight colour calculations this would be very welcome.
CDE's algo is quite clever and you can see that a lot of know-how
went into it.

Bye

Dominik ^_^

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Received on Fri Dec 17 1999 - 09:04:18 GMT

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