Submission details
Consistent background color during boot, logon, user switching
While booting up the screen background is white with the little apple in the middle of the screen. Before showing the login window, the background changes to some sort of blue background, changes to another blue again and after that it shows the background image. Thats simply ugly!
The same happens at login or switch user (cube effect). The login isn't that much of a problem (at least to me). But when locking the workstation/switching to the login window, the cube shows my desktop and the other side is that ugly blue. It should show the login window + univers background image.
* The blue background should be black or not being shown at all.
* The cube effect transition should not show the blue background as well - just show the login window + background image.
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Discussion (6 comments)
The color per se is not important. Be it blue or black or even white doesn't matter. But I hat to see it changing several times during boot and login.
And I totally agree with you about the login picture.
To tide you over until the login colours stop changing, there is a quite easy method to change the login image.
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071027002458808
Yes I'm useing this trick since tiger (though it was a little bit different there)
+1
polycat33
you arnt the only one who uses a mac. get over it,
The reason the color changes is that the first blue color is shown while ColorSync isn't running, then it starts up and changes your display color, so the blue looks differently.
I actually like this, because it help when debugging computers that start up very slowly. You can tell if the problem is before or after ColorSync, and therefore in the core system or in a part where the user might have done something.
I still voted + on it because Apple used to be pioneers in terms of UI and design and have more and more lost track of that lately. This is definitely something that should be refined, even when it's a small issue.
polycat33 wrote on September 29, 2008, 12:34am
I don't agree about the solution of changing blue to black, and I actually like the blue background color but I do agree about the changing... also I HATE the login background, I'd be fine if that were just the same blue as the previous screen. But no black, bleh.