[SOLVED] Lister: Changing the color of the controls of the DirectShow media player
Posted: 2021-03-15, 11:49 UTC
It seems there is no option to change the color of the DirectShow media player controls in TC 10.00b1a.
(Either that, or i am too dumb to find it, in the latter case the "feature suggestion" would be to un-dumb me, please.)
I just started to use TC 10.00b1a with my normal TC configuration with the traditional blue Norton Commander color scheme which i like. That also includes lister having a dark blue background.
Unfortunately, the controls of the new media player are a mixture of black and white-ish controls (the position/volume sliders being white, the other player controls being black), and i didn't find a way to change their color. As an unholy marriage of high-contrast and stealth design it's quite something, but still entirely unwanted though. (Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/rqRfMBd.png)
While the position/volume sliders are in unwanted stark contrast to the background, they at least retain their visibility. Not so the other black controls, which basically become almost invisible on a dark background. Thus, i would consider providing configurable colors for the black controls a higher priority than the position/volume sliders.
I would expect and like to see an entry for the media player control colors in the lister color options in TC's config dialog. I would not like to have the lister text color assigned to the controls, as when playing videos one often wants to have more subdued colors for the controls than the colors normally chosen for text. (Alternatively, the entire media player color scheme including its background color could perhaps be completely separated from the lister colors meant for text mode, and just offering a light and dark mode.)
I also would prefer the textual elements in the control bar having the same configurable color as the controls (no, not the color of the lister text), for the same reason as stated in the last paragraph.
(Either that, or i am too dumb to find it, in the latter case the "feature suggestion" would be to un-dumb me, please.)
I just started to use TC 10.00b1a with my normal TC configuration with the traditional blue Norton Commander color scheme which i like. That also includes lister having a dark blue background.
Unfortunately, the controls of the new media player are a mixture of black and white-ish controls (the position/volume sliders being white, the other player controls being black), and i didn't find a way to change their color. As an unholy marriage of high-contrast and stealth design it's quite something, but still entirely unwanted though. (Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/rqRfMBd.png)
While the position/volume sliders are in unwanted stark contrast to the background, they at least retain their visibility. Not so the other black controls, which basically become almost invisible on a dark background. Thus, i would consider providing configurable colors for the black controls a higher priority than the position/volume sliders.
I would expect and like to see an entry for the media player control colors in the lister color options in TC's config dialog. I would not like to have the lister text color assigned to the controls, as when playing videos one often wants to have more subdued colors for the controls than the colors normally chosen for text. (Alternatively, the entire media player color scheme including its background color could perhaps be completely separated from the lister colors meant for text mode, and just offering a light and dark mode.)
I also would prefer the textual elements in the control bar having the same configurable color as the controls (no, not the color of the lister text), for the same reason as stated in the last paragraph.
