07-22-2021, 08:35 PM
I don't see any specific Apple guideline on dimming window text to indicate loss of focus. The closest I could find is a pretty general mention of making loss of focus visually distinctive.
https://developer.apple.com/design/human...ew/themes/
I do see that official Apple apps (Xcode, Photos, Mail...) dim the title text, and in some cases other text (Photos dims the text on the sidebar, but not in the main window with the actual photos). It seems really inconsistent, and non-Apple apps don't seem to care, I don't see any text dimmed in Firefox, for example, and I have the GitHub app in dark mode which brings up the issue how you'd apply this rule, if it's a rule, to dark mode apps.
But anyway, I guess there is a reason for the wxWidgets behavior, though one could argue that they should only dim the window title and not the status bar, or make the behavior optional, with, say, a window style.
https://developer.apple.com/design/human...ew/themes/
I do see that official Apple apps (Xcode, Photos, Mail...) dim the title text, and in some cases other text (Photos dims the text on the sidebar, but not in the main window with the actual photos). It seems really inconsistent, and non-Apple apps don't seem to care, I don't see any text dimmed in Firefox, for example, and I have the GitHub app in dark mode which brings up the issue how you'd apply this rule, if it's a rule, to dark mode apps.
But anyway, I guess there is a reason for the wxWidgets behavior, though one could argue that they should only dim the window title and not the status bar, or make the behavior optional, with, say, a window style.