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| Accessibility - Appearance issues [message #1261597] |
Sun, 02 March 2014 20:23  |
 Eustace Fril
Messages: 13
Registered: December 2012 |
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I moved from a Vista to a Windows 7 machine, and upgraded from Helios to
Kepler. I have 3 initial issues with it:
1. The new 3-dimentional shortcut icon is not clear enough for my weak
vision. I wish the old, 2-dimentional solid color 1 was also available
when you click the properties of the shortcut to change the icon.
Unfortunately it isn't. So where can I download the old icon so I can
use it?
2. The toolbar icons are too small for me. I wish there was an Icon size
and style option, like in OpenOffice, to choose Large and High Contrast.
Or is there this option or something similar and I do not know about it?
3. When I first opened my workspace, I was unpleasantly surprised to
find out that the toolbars and the tabs had not the colors they had in
my old machine. Then I found out that The property Preferences - General
- Appearance - Theme: Windows 7 Classic, and now the toolbars are Ok,
but not the tabs. Let's start with the tab I am currently in. In
Preferences - General - Appearance - Colors and Fonts - View and Editor
folders - Preview I see the selected tab with the colors I had assigned
it in Helios, but that is not how it appears in the workspace. The
colors are specified correctly in Active part background begin, Active
part background end, but appear differently. Why? Same for the Inactive
part and the Active (non-focus) part. (Actually the Inactive part with
the toolbar colors does not look bad so I'd rather keep it as is rather
as I have specified in the Preferences).
4. The Editor text font is not what I have specified in Basic - Text
font: DejaVu Sand Mono - it has become Courier new I think. Where is the
Editor font specified?
Thanks,
emf
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| Re: Accessibility - Appearance issues [message #1261868 is a reply to message #1261597] |
Mon, 03 March 2014 03:21  |
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On 03/02/2014 01:23 PM, Eustace wrote:
> I moved from a Vista to a Windows 7 machine, and upgraded from Helios to
> Kepler. I have 3 initial issues with it:
>
> 1. The new 3-dimentional shortcut icon is not clear enough for my weak
> vision. I wish the old, 2-dimentional solid color 1 was also available
> when you click the properties of the shortcut to change the icon.
> Unfortunately it isn't. So where can I download the old icon so I can
> use it?
>
> 2. The toolbar icons are too small for me. I wish there was an Icon size
> and style option, like in OpenOffice, to choose Large and High Contrast.
> Or is there this option or something similar and I do not know about it?
>
> 3. When I first opened my workspace, I was unpleasantly surprised to
> find out that the toolbars and the tabs had not the colors they had in
> my old machine. Then I found out that The property Preferences - General
> - Appearance - Theme: Windows 7 Classic, and now the toolbars are Ok,
> but not the tabs. Let's start with the tab I am currently in. In
> Preferences - General - Appearance - Colors and Fonts - View and Editor
> folders - Preview I see the selected tab with the colors I had assigned
> it in Helios, but that is not how it appears in the workspace. The
> colors are specified correctly in Active part background begin, Active
> part background end, but appear differently. Why? Same for the Inactive
> part and the Active (non-focus) part. (Actually the Inactive part with
> the toolbar colors does not look bad so I'd rather keep it as is rather
> as I have specified in the Preferences).
>
> 4. The Editor text font is not what I have specified in Basic - Text
> font: DejaVu Sand Mono - it has become Courier new I think. Where is the
> Editor font specified?
>
> Thanks,
>
> emf
>
Eustace,
I'm sort of with you if for different reasons. I've learned to live with
what the UI guys did to Eclipse beginning in Juno, but for a while I was
unhappy enough to do this. I'm assuming it still works for Kepler:
http://www.javahotchocolate.com/notes/eclipse.html#unsucking-juno
I would caution you to understand what this does and be ready to reverse
it (not hard) in case it fails to produce the effect you desire.
Hope this helps though there may be a better answer.
Russ
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| Re: Accessibility - Appearance issues [message #1261982 is a reply to message #1261868] |
Mon, 03 March 2014 06:21 |
Eustace Fril
Messages: 13
Registered: December 2012 |
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On 2014-03-02 22:21 Russell Bateman wrote:
> On 03/02/2014 01:23 PM, Eustace wrote:
>> I moved from a Vista to a Windows 7 machine, and upgraded from Helios to
>> Kepler. I have 3 initial issues with it:
>>
>> 1. The new 3-dimentional shortcut icon is not clear enough for my weak
>> vision. I wish the old, 2-dimentional solid color 1 was also available
>> when you click the properties of the shortcut to change the icon.
>> Unfortunately it isn't. So where can I download the old icon so I can
>> use it?
>>
>> 2. The toolbar icons are too small for me. I wish there was an Icon size
>> and style option, like in OpenOffice, to choose Large and High Contrast.
>> Or is there this option or something similar and I do not know about it?
>>
>> 3. When I first opened my workspace, I was unpleasantly surprised to
>> find out that the toolbars and the tabs had not the colors they had in
>> my old machine. Then I found out that The property Preferences - General
>> - Appearance - Theme: Windows 7 Classic, and now the toolbars are Ok,
>> but not the tabs. Let's start with the tab I am currently in. In
>> Preferences - General - Appearance - Colors and Fonts - View and Editor
>> folders - Preview I see the selected tab with the colors I had assigned
>> it in Helios, but that is not how it appears in the workspace. The
>> colors are specified correctly in Active part background begin, Active
>> part background end, but appear differently. Why? Same for the Inactive
>> part and the Active (non-focus) part. (Actually the Inactive part with
>> the toolbar colors does not look bad so I'd rather keep it as is rather
>> as I have specified in the Preferences).
>>
>> 4. The Editor text font is not what I have specified in Basic - Text
>> font: DejaVu Sand Mono - it has become Courier new I think. Where is the
>> Editor font specified?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> emf
>>
>
> Eustace,
>
> I'm sort of with you if for different reasons. I've learned to live with
> what the UI guys did to Eclipse beginning in Juno, but for a while I was
> unhappy enough to do this. I'm assuming it still works for Kepler:
>
> http://www.javahotchocolate.com/notes/eclipse.html#unsucking-juno
>
> I would caution you to understand what this does and be ready to reverse
> it (not hard) in case it fails to produce the effect you desire.
>
> Hope this helps though there may be a better answer.
>
> Russ
Thanks! But when I followed the directions and changed the name of the
css folder the tab colors changed, but not to the ones I have assigned
in the Preferences. Then instead I found the file
....\css\e4_classic_win7.css and in it I changed the
swt-selected-tabs-background: ...
in .MPartStack and .MPartStack.active to my preferred colors. It worked.
So this solves issue #3. Still I do not understand why I have to to
this, why eclipse *ignores* the preferences part background specified
colors (they did not kick in when I commented out the 2 lines).
The other issues still remain unanswered...
emf
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