ON2007 -Color under Vista

[Rainald Taesler]

I did install ON today on my new machine under Vista.

It comes ins baby-blue colr which I do not like at all.

Where could I change the color?

Rainald

 

[Josh Einstein]

Looks like OneNote doesn't honor the Office-wide color scheme. Can Daniel
confirm this?

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Josh Einstein shared these words of wisdom

Looks like OneNote doesn't honor the Office-wide color scheme.

It looks like that :-( :-(

And I can not see a connection to the Vista color scheme selected
either ...

Can Daniel confirm this?

Would be fine.

Rainald

 

[Daniel Escapa [MS]]

The non-Ribboned apps (Publisher, Project, Visio, OneNote, etc) do not have
a color theme option and instead always use the blue colloring.

Only the Ribboned apps support the themes (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access &
Outlook).

 

[Josh Einstein]

I guess since Outlook is the only one of those apps that uses a CommandBar I
just assumed all CommandBar Office applications (from now on to be known as
"legacy" Office apps come on guys!!) would do what Outlook does and
follow the general color of the theme, even though it's a CommandBar.

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Daniel Escapa [MS] shared these words of wisdom

The non-Ribboned apps (Publisher, Project, Visio, OneNote, etc) do
not have a color theme option and instead always use the blue
colloring.

Only the Ribboned apps support the themes (Word, Excel, PowerPoint,
Access & Outlook).

Thanks for the explanation, Daniel.

I hate the color. And still I can not understand why there is no way to
*customize* the appearance.

Seems that the good old rule "User in Command" which once was the
guideline for programming GUI-applications has been forgotten.
But does this really take wonder in the days when the new OS tries to
incapacitate the users and push things back to the days of the
mainframes when users had to obey the system ...

Rainald

 

[Patrick Schmid [MVP]]

See http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2006/08/10/694577.aspx
And
http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2006/08/14/699304.aspx


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Daniel Escapa [MS] shared these words of wisdom

The non-Ribboned apps (Publisher, Project, Visio, OneNote, etc) do
not have a color theme option and instead always use the blue
colloring.

Only the Ribboned apps support the themes (Word, Excel, PowerPoint,
Access & Outlook).

Thanks for the explanation, Daniel.

I hate the color. And still I can not understand why there is no way to
*customize* the appearance.

Seems that the good old rule "User in Command" which once was the
guideline for programming GUI-applications has been forgotten.
But does this really take wonder in the days when the new OS tries to
incapacitate the users and push things back to the days of the
mainframes when users had to obey the system ...

Rainald

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Patrick Schmid [MVP] shared these words of wisdom:

See http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2006/08/10/694577.aspx
And
http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2006/08/14/699304.aspx

Thanks, Patrick!

Interesting reading.
Still I don't like the result.
IMHO the XP way was the better way in so far. There I could use
"silver" and all was well .

Rainald