[betatester]

One fairly simple solution that Omni could give us would be to knock back the opacity of their toolbar buttons, and importantly, on their Tab Drawer controls on inactive windows (i.e. like the close/minimise/zoom controls)... the actual themes themselves are in Apple's court, naturally.

Of course, since Apple's already acknowledged this issue with the window controls, standard toolbars should arguably handle button opacity for devs.

In the non-beta thread on this issue, someone lamented the loss of 10.0's semi-transparent inactive titlebars -- I'm in two minds about that, OT1H it does distinguish, but in practice what you often ended up with was too much visual noise, the same thing that's now happening to Vista... but OTOH it does kinda look cool... hmm, usabilty vs trendiness... these days that seems to be a harder decision than it oughta be!

-- oops, still logged in as 'betatester'!

marc nothrop