P: (MacOS) LrC v15.6 Dialogue windows brighter

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On Mac but not Windows, the color scheme for both built-in and plugin dialogs has changed significantly, resulting in a more confusing, harder-to-read user interface.

Questions:

- Was this a deliberate change by the LR product manager?

- If so, why wasn’t Windows Mac changed? The gratuitous differences makes it that much harder to build similar plugin UIs for the two platforms.

- Do I need to go through all my plugins and adjust their dialogs for improved readability?

- Or was the change inadvertent, and I should just wait for the next LR release?

I’ve attached a PDF with screenshots of four built-in and two plugin dialogs, from Mac LR 15.5.1 and LR 15.6. (Inserting images in forum posts is currently broken.)  I’ve evaluated these changes on my high-end calibrated Eizo display.

- The backgrounds have changed from medium grey to very light grey and white.

- The white background makes it hard to distinguish text edit fields from static text fields, so the user doesn’t know where she might input text.

- Buttons and popup menus changed from black on white backgrounds to block on grey backgrounds and they lost their thin black borders, reducing their contrast.

- The borders around edit fields are lighter, making it hard to see against a white background.

- The fill color of radio buttons and checkboxes is grey, with very little difference between the enabled-unchecked and disabled-unchecked states, making it hard to distinguish disabled buttons and checkboxes.

- The Any Crop plugin dialog that mimicked the color scheme of the Develop panel is now unreadable due to the check in background of popup menus.