QotD: Selection
Posted August 29th, 2004 @ 10:58am by Erik J. Barzeski
Question: What is your system's highlight color? (System Preferences -> Appearance -> Highlight Color on Mac OS X)
My Answer: Mine is currently green, having been orange for quite awhile. I grow tired of blue fairly readily - Mac OS X is very blue, after all, and it's easy to lose the selection amongst the other blue elements. I sometimes use gold as well, alternating among those three and a custom color every few weeks.
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Posted 29 Aug 2004 at 12:42pm #
I can't decide if I like regular blue or gold better.
Posted 29 Aug 2004 at 12:49pm #
Go figure, Entourage doesn't pick up changes in appearance until it's relaunched. Add this to an ever-increasing number of Mac OS X things at which Entourage flips the bird.
Posted 29 Aug 2004 at 1:42pm #
I changed it to yellow probably within 24 hours of my switch to mac. 3 macs and 2 years later, still yellow.
Posted 29 Aug 2004 at 1:47pm #
Gold. I love gooooooold.
Posted 29 Aug 2004 at 2:34pm #
Green. One of the first things I do when I get a new Mac is change the hilight color to green (and move the dock to the right side of the screen).
Posted 30 Aug 2004 at 12:31am #
Ok, "green." Great. Is this the stock green or your own settings?
Please do tell, inquiring minds want to know.
Posted 30 Aug 2004 at 1:26am #
Gold, I'll probably adjust it to more of a deep-yellow though.
Too bad it doesn't also change the highlight colour for menu items (I would consider those a "selected text and lists")... *thinks about logging it as a bug*
Posted 30 Aug 2004 at 8:53am #
I currently have a light blue, fitting the more saturated used in the menues
Used to have sort of lime green earlier but felt for a change a couple of moons ago
Posted 30 Aug 2004 at 2:05pm #
"#C6C6C6"
Posted 30 Aug 2004 at 4:44pm #
Mine is still set to the default blue. Then again, I still have the stock "aqua" picture set as my desktop background on my main monitor. (the 2nd monitor shows an iPhoto album of vacation pictures, cycling every 5 seconds)