xpoke
commented
9 years ago This is an old style choice I made which over time grew on me (it's added as a special case for the main window). I see the issues with it and will probably make this change if I don't find another option. The reasons were:
- Both other "boxes" in the main window are not text fields - but they look similar in decoration. This can cause some confusion (one of the boxes is a text input field while the other are a text output box and a tree view box). In more complex styles it's easy to tell the difference, but when all objects are plain with simple borders, I wanted to give it a different style.
- The main window has a slightly different style from the other windows (it has lots of border-less floating elements), which is more similar to the style I was going for. The other windows got more old-fashioned controls because the whole layout couldn't be changed completely, and they are full of elements difficult to show in border-less "flat" UIs (combo boxes, spin boxes, tables with inner elements)
One reason was for usability and the second for esthetics. Both of which are probably less important than consistency. I will try a few other approaches and see if anything sticks, but if not, I'll probably remove the special styling on the main window text box.
funkydude
The box where text is typed should be white in the new theme. As it stands it just looks like some text on a background, whereas it should look like a separated area.