Hi Mike,

> But from what you're saying then, I'll be able to customize
> the color of the buttons, but I won't be able to use the nifty
> glossy custom bitmap button components I use now?
> Okay. :-|

Well, I guess you still could do that, but you'd have to do a much bigger change to the way the buttons are set up, you'd need to make your own CSS for it that used background images instead of gradients and border-radius.

It would be possible but you'd have to be pretty familiar with HTML and CSS use to do that - it probably wouldn't be like changing one little line on the existing setup.


Or another way to do it would be to further tweak the gradients and border thickness values and stuff like that rather than using images.


Basically I wanted to get away from using images for the various UI elements like edges and corners and stuff like that because it's pretty annoying to have to generate a whole set of new images just to change colors of different things.



> Might I make a suggestion, that the ability to change the
> (basic) color scheme across the board, such as the buttons
> color, UI background and basic type, could be changed via
> color picker in the options dialog as we can change the grid
> and 3D view backgrounds now.

I don't think that's feasible because there are quite a bunch of different colors used in different areas, and they don't necessarily all derive as lighter or darker shades of a single base color.

So because there are various colors used in the UI and not just a single base color, it follows that trying to only set one base color won't really work.

It would require a different kind of overhaul to the UI system to allow for that, one where various colors were derived in different ways from a base one, that's a pretty complex thing to set up. My main goal is to just make it possible to easily edit a color definition file with all the colors labeled in it, and then to have a few different preset color definitions available to switch between.

- Michael