Status Bar color

[livings124]

Yup, it does become light when inactive (although that is also custom so not perfect). With this change the window will be draggable from the status bar as well.



Indented text has already been added for the existing interface.

[.Neo]

What color did you use for the inactive state? The most bottom line of pixels of the toolbar when the window is inactive? I'm thinking it might look better if you take a slightly lighter tone of the gradient instead of the darkest one. It's a matter of perception: The toolbar is much bigger so the light part of it dominates. So using a tone found somewhere near the middle (from the bottom up) for the status bar might even things out a bit more.

Just thinking out loud here. Hopefully it makes sense.

Perception-wise the active state looks perfect.

[.Neo]

I was wondering did looking at Adium for the sliding effect yielded anything?

[livings124]

I was wondering did looking at Adium for the sliding effect yielded anything?

I do not currently have the time to look into this.

[.Neo]

That's okay. At least you now have a place to look once you have the time.

When will the statusbar change make it into a working build? Love to see it in action.

[livings124]

I'm unsure about how to go forward with this in terms of the filter bar. Keeping the existing color for the bar seems off:

(group bar shown to demonstrate all potential bars)

Using the same look as the status bar also seems off, though:

[.Neo]

Picture two looks good to me. The only thing I'd tweak at this point is the inactive color to look a bit lighter as described before.

Personally I always thought that having both the status and filter bar enabled looked a bit odd. It's just because you have three "toolbars" in a row. Recoloring both to match Snow Leopard's window chrome doesn't really change that.

[livings124]

I think I've found something I like:


And inactive:

[livings124]

Give r11453 or later at http://transmission.xpjets.com/ a try.

[livings124]

I've lightened it a little bit in r11456

[.Neo]

Apple addressed that issue by making the text bold in Safari. Not that I find it hard to read how it is now.

Looks nice and fresh! Thanks for implementing my suggestion.

[livings124]

I believe that's as light as we can go without the status bar looking weird.

[.Neo]

I've been using the build you suggested for the past two days now and the status bar color really looks a tad too light compared to the rest of the toolbar. Can you make it slightly darker? I would make the text bold (like Safari's Bookmarks bar) so you counter any readability issues that might arise.

Hmm... Maybe just lighten the stats bar a bit more? Safari seems to have a lighter cast on the bottom giving a more balanced look.

Overall Safari's Bookmarks bar is actually darker than Transmission's current status bar.

The blue arrow points to Transmission's status bar, the purple one points to Safari's bookmarks bar gradient.

[livings124]

I'll experiment with it some more.

[.Neo]

Keep us posted!