Bug#461851: ambigous highlighting if background picture is enabled

[Robert Millan]

Ah, I'm sorry.  I missunderstood you.

Let's start over...

On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 09:25:34AM +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> 
> I believe the highlighting of the menu items is ambigous when the newly 
> introduced background image is enabled.
> Consider you have only two menu items. Which one is 'highlighted', 
> magenta or black?

I don't think so.  Every piece of text is black;  it's not hard to figure
out that magenta is for highlighted items.

> Magenta is a dark color (at least on my CRT) and does not provide the 
> best possible contrast to black.

The problem is that, more importantly, it has to provide good contrast to
the light colors in background.  Try proposing another color that works
better for contrasting both with black and lightblue/white background.

> Furthermore i believe that a colored 
> background indicates the selected menu item in a more obviuos way than 
> colored text.

Yes, but it's very ugly. :-(

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