I also tinkered with the MC 12 Aruba skin. The dark brown background of the Tag window was too dark. There wasn't enough contrast with the tag name and value text.
Here is the result:
http://www.wcosf.org/misc/My_Aruba_small%20screenshot.jpgA full size screenshot and a zip file are at
http://www.wcosf.org/misc/I had to experiment a bit to figure out how to change the background of the Tag Window. I found that the background was being set by the ActionWindow_Template.png file.
That file is 114 by 54 pixels. The line in ActionWindow section of the Aruba main.xml
<Entry Name="Template" Bitmap="ActionWindow_Template.png" Margins="10,26,10,6" NumberImages="2" InternalMargins="8,7,8,8" HeaderHeight="16" VerticalSpacing="0" />
caused the the contents of the template image to be drawn over the entire background of the Tag Window. I edited the ActionTemplate image to be 26 pixels high and changed the corresponding line in the main.xml file to read
<Entry Name="Template" Bitmap="ActionWindow_Template.png" Margins="10,26,10,0" NumberImages="2" InternalMargins="8,7,8,8" HeaderHeight="16" VerticalSpacing="0" />
Now I can set the background color with the following line in the ActionWindow section:
<Colors Text="282200" ActiveText="000000" Back="B5B194" />
This behavior is specific to the Tag Window. The ActionWindow itself behaved as expected; its background was always controled by the
Back= parameter.
The ActionWindow_Template image and the corresponding lines in the main.xml file seem to be the same for MC 11 but the result is different. The template image is not drawn over the background of the Tag Window in MC 11.
Since this behavior is not consistent between the Tag Window and the Action Window in MC 12 and isn't consistent between MC 11 and MC 12, I'd say that there is some kind of a bug here.
Bill