Color & font configuration for address and status bars

[fireslug]

I use a dark theme for my Windows XP system (menus, dialogs and buttons are all shades of dark gray). But the address bar and status bar of XYplorer stubbornly remain white/light gray no matter which theme I select, even when similar components of other windows change with the theme. Does XYplorer use nonstandard widgets?

To fix this, I'd like to have color configuration options for the address bar and status bar, or alternatively have XY conform to Windows standards for these elements (assuming it doesn't ATM).

Also, I'd like to use Vista fonts in the address and status bars, but these fonts are so much smaller than e.g. Verdana that they become practically unreadable. How about allowing font *size* change under Configuration/Fonts/General?

Finally: I don't know if this is intended or not, but changing font size using CTRL-mousewheel goes in the "wrong" direction (compared to e.g. Firefox, Word and Photoshop).

[admin]

Hi, thanks for the input. This sounds indeed like a couple of things need improvement. I'll check... (yes, I will invert the wheel direction for font size).

[admin]

Finally: I don't know if this is intended or not, but changing font size using CTRL-mousewheel goes in the "wrong" direction (compared to e.g. Firefox, Word and Photoshop).

I'm "intuitively mixed" about this. See also http://kaioa.com/node/60

Not sure why, but I connote "Wheel Down" with "More" (and "more" with "increase"), probably because that's where you go when you want to see more of a page/text. So let's make an informal poll:

Who thinks the wheel direction/function should be reversed for
Ctrl+Wheel (Font Size)
Ctrl+Shift+Wheel (row height tree, list, catalog)
Shift+Wheel (node indent tree)
?

[j_c_hallgren]

Maybe the easist (and best to adapt to for some existing users) would be a tweak as mentioned in a post there:

Fortunately there is a way to undo this inversion: change the value of mousewheel.withcontrolkey.numlines (over in about:config) to "-1". After doing that Firefox behaves like any other program.

Although having too many tweaks may be undesired but this would give user choice.

[admin]

So let's make an informal poll:

Who thinks the wheel direction/function should be reversed for
Ctrl+Wheel (Font Size)
Ctrl+Shift+Wheel (row height tree, list, catalog)
Shift+Wheel (node indent tree)
?

Maybe the easist (and best to adapt to for some existing users) would be a tweak as mentioned in a post there:

Fortunately there is a way to undo this inversion: change the value of mousewheel.withcontrolkey.numlines (over in about:config) to "-1". After doing that Firefox behaves like any other program.

Although having too many tweaks may be undesired but this would give user choice.

Yes, but this still leaves the question for the factory default.

We have conflicting metaphors here:
1) Zooming in: up = forward = nearer = bigger
2) Paging on: down = more = bigger

[zer0]

I would like to see it reversed. That seems to be the standard set by many an application, so let's adhere to it. People who wish for existing situation to remain and be "unconventional" can take advantage of a tweak (if you'd implement it). If there would be no tweak then I hope people would understand, since reversing would just be putting things as they should have been. Besides, we're humans and we are the best at adapting to changing conditions

[admin]

I use a dark theme for my Windows XP system (menus, dialogs and buttons are all shades of dark gray). But the address bar and status bar of XYplorer stubbornly remain white/light gray no matter which theme I select, even when similar components of other windows change with the theme.

The address bar does adapt over here (after XY restart), although not perfectly -- only around 87% of it. Is it all white at your place?

Also the statusbar looks alright after XY restart.

[fireslug]

I use a dark theme for my Windows XP system (menus, dialogs and buttons are all shades of dark gray). But the address bar and status bar of XYplorer stubbornly remain white/light gray no matter which theme I select, even when similar components of other windows change with the theme.

The address bar does adapt over here (after XY restart), although not perfectly -- only around 87% of it. Is it all white at your place?

Also the statusbar looks alright after XY restart.

After a restart, everything *does* look right! I never tried that since everything else changed the moment I switched themes. My bad, sorry for taking your time.

In case anyone was wondering: I switch to a dark color scheme in the evening because I noticed that staring at a bright screen until late at night disrupted my sleep. I use a modified version of lassekongo's Lakrits theme for Windows XP. Then, to fix the web, I use the Stylish add-on for Firefox with the Nightshift userstyle. Just a tip for other night owls, all I can do as an XY newbie to give something back to the community.