Windows 7 Taskforce

xombie wrote on January 11, 2009, 9:14am

True.

Not just the control panel, also the toolbars in explorer.
No matter what colour you choose, they always remain baby blue (yuck).

.Chris wrote on January 11, 2009, 9:23am

^ for that, I rather chose my own color, not let microsoft chose what i want. I bought this computer, not them

hoopla_punta wrote on January 11, 2009, 10:37am

Maybe a generic picture that can change with the colour tone?

billerr wrote on January 11, 2009, 12:11pm

Yeah, they should change the tone of the picture they have. And a bit the tones of menus and toolbars. Subtler if the color is not intense in Aero, more profound if you've got something as vibrant as Ruby (an eye-sore, in other words) :P

The toolbars and panes are made with the default Aero in mind, and as Microsoft themselves found, 30% of the Vista users use their own colors. Since they cared about it, why not take it a step furter and make bitmaps (pane, toolbars, menus) comply?

Ensign Joe wrote on January 11, 2009, 1:52pm

They already made the copy/move animation on the fly generated (you can change the color by editing a few color values - not replacing a picture!!! - with resource hacker) why did they use a picture for that? It should also be generated on the fly (or buffered in ram whatever) so that it can change color and does not cause eye cancer ;)

xombie wrote on January 11, 2009, 1:57pm

A transparent PNG would be perfect. Under it would be whatever colour you chose for Aero.

.Chris wrote on January 11, 2009, 5:22pm

See microsoft, simple. now get to work

seifip wrote on January 12, 2009, 8:04pm

I also use a pink color scheme and the blue looks awful with it :( Please!

litemininyuszika wrote on January 13, 2009, 4:12pm

+1! It's REALLY makes me want to tear up little teddy bears!!

xombie:
IE8 also have this baby blue color, and Opera can't use my hot pink Aero color scheme with Windows Native scheme selected, it uses this baby blue also!

Hurry! Fix it, Microsoft!

I N C O N S I S T E N T W O R K , M I C R O S O F T !

xombie wrote on January 13, 2009, 4:13pm

What was gray in XP is blue in 7 (don't know about Vista).

At least gray matched with everything.

.Chris wrote on January 13, 2009, 5:09pm

Gray in XP? Erm no. If you had the luna skin, it would have been blue.

Vista was green

xombie wrote on January 13, 2009, 5:36pm

I mean the colour of some of the controls. Like the menu bar and stuff (not the title bar)

mikmik111 wrote on January 18, 2009, 6:03am

Also the texts, I think the texts should follow the theme colors too.

.Chris wrote on January 18, 2009, 5:58pm

The Text colors should only change if the color is off. (a yellow background with white text is bad)