Re: system settings -> change frame color?

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Re: system settings -> change frame color?
by Grósz Dániel on Wednesday 23/Apr/2008, @14:51

I still think that, while there are many people who prefer looking cool (I didn't say the contrary) but there are many (who use the computer for productive work) who value practical aspects.

Not knowing which window is active, or even the idea of the active window leads to confusion to the users, especially with modal dialogs. They open a config dialog and inside it they open a sub-configuration dialog which is modal. They do some settings therend click on OK in the main dialog because they don't realize that first they have to close the sub-dialog. I have seen this multiple times even with clearly different window decorations. Similarly if the user starts typing but the focus is on the wrong window, the result is unexpected to the user.

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