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on build 200311251900, the dark blue "current window" highlight that shows which pane is currently selected is too dark (at least on OSX) and it's impossible to read the name of the pane.
Thanks Joshua, could you please attach screenshot of how it looks like? Thx.
Created attachment 12375 [details] screenshot of dark tab highlight colour
just added a screenshot - look at the panel title at the top of the explorer panel. On the other hand, I'd like to point out that this problem is very minor compared to issue 37581, which is a complete show stopper on OSX - there doesn't seem to have been much movement on that one....
We're working on these issues - in particular, extending the core support for UI themes, so that we can plug in some custom colors for different platforms. Once the color code is centralized, these problems will be easy to solve - and it will be possible to drop in an XML theme file to change the colors to taste.
Interestingly - I just looked at todays build, and the tabs for the source code editors are now coloured with my chosed highlight colour (you can choose which colour you want to use as a highlight colour on OSX) but the tabs for the other various panes and views remain the same dark blue. In terms of OSX interface consistency whatever you're doing with the editor tabs would definately be my chosen solution for all the tabs (assuming that using the native platform look-and-feel for tabs is out of the question, is it ?)
I rewrote the editor tabs UI last week, and it's just using UIManager.getColor("Table.selectionBackground"/foreground) to get the color. Sounds like that works better on OS-X. Actually I have a mac laptop on order, and one of the express reasons I'm getting it is to develop mac-friendly UI delegates for the window system, and be generally responsible for NetBeans working and looking right on OS-X.
I just committed a provisional os-x ui for the new window system to the trunk. So the tabs should not only be readable, they look like Aqua controls. I've provisionally set the default look and feel for NetBeans on OS-X to be Aqua instead of metal. Try it out in the tonight's development build and send any feedback. It's not a final look and feel (there was no UI spec, design process, etc.), but it works and is a huge improvement over the way it was, so hopefully we can keep it for 3.6. If you can't get hold of a development build, a screenshot is online at http://workspaceswitcher.netbeans.org/images/nb-3.png This is what happens when I get a new Mac laptop just before two weeks vacation...
Joshua, could you verify this issue in just released NB3.6 RC1(Mark issue as VERIFIED) please? ... thanks in advance ....
sorry I should have closed this bug long ago - thanks to Tim's amazing efforts the OSX version has improved immeasurably over the last months. This problem disappeared ages ago. There are other P1 problems with font layout on OSX in RC1 which i'll check have bugs filed for them.