The dock indicator lights look fairly dim on the MBA display, but bright on external displays (LCD TVs for example). Any fixes?
(MacBook Air mid-2012)
As stated in the title, I've noticed the indicator lights on the dock which represent an open/running application looking fairly dim as opposed to the previous dock design in Lion. After a little look around on the internet, there are some others who are having a similar issue, but I've noticed that upon connecting the laptop to external displays (monitors and LCD TVs), they look extremely bright and noticeable on that particular screen.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/19126554#19126554 This thread appears to address the same issue, yet its odd how the dock "raises" if connected to an external display in my case. I'm considering locating the image files used to display the dock indicators and photoshopping them to be brighter.
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Revision: 11067
Author: [email protected]
Date: 2009-10-21 16:32:39 -0700 (Wed, 21 Oct 2009)
Log Message:
Drag and Drop - tweak the positioning of the drop indicator, allow 1 pixel overlap with the container border
QE notes: None
Doc notes: None
Bugs: None
Reviewer: None
Tests run: checkintests
Is noteworthy for integration: No
Modified Paths:
flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/spark/src/spark/layouts/HorizontalLayout.as
flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/spark/src/spark/layouts/TileLayout.as
flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/spark/src/spark/layouts/VerticalLayout.asRevision: 11067
Author: [email protected]
Date: 2009-10-21 16:32:39 -0700 (Wed, 21 Oct 2009)
Log Message:
Drag and Drop - tweak the positioning of the drop indicator, allow 1 pixel overlap with the container border
QE notes: None
Doc notes: None
Bugs: None
Reviewer: None
Tests run: checkintests
Is noteworthy for integration: No
Modified Paths:
flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/spark/src/spark/layouts/HorizontalLayout.as
flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/spark/src/spark/layouts/TileLayout.as
flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/spark/src/spark/layouts/VerticalLayout.as -
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