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List:       amarok-bugs-dist
Subject:    [amarok] [Bug 329435] New: Configurable UI colors
From:       Thomas Mitterfellner <thomas () mitterfellner ! at>
Date:       2013-12-30 19:02:15
Message-ID: bug-329435-71684 () http ! bugs ! kde ! org/
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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=329435

            Bug ID: 329435
           Summary: Configurable UI colors
    Classification: Unclassified
           Product: amarok
           Version: 2.8.0
          Platform: unspecified
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: amarok-bugs-dist@kde.org
          Reporter: thomas@mitterfellner.at

In amarok's playlist/collection tree, every other line is colored (styled)
differently from the previous one. This style makes it very hard for me to
orientate myself visually (also, it horribly reminds me of 80's style
continuous paper for dot-matrix printers (o;).
As of now, these colors can only be configured on a global scope (one color
corresponds to "Normal Background"  from "Window" category, and the other one
to "Alternate Background" from the "View" category). 
But even when I set those two to the same colors, /still/ every other line is
subtly different (as I gathered from reading the source, that's because of some
hard-coded transparency magic), plus – and that is even more important to me –
to get my preferred contrast in those list views, I would have to change the
window background color of all other  applications, which unfortunately ruins
the contrast for these other applications!

I've hacked around this problem by applying the _horrible_ patch I'll attach to
this message (which is of course not meant to be implemented that way in
amarok, but rather to demonstrate the end result I would like to be able to
achieve).

I would really appreciate it if you could implement some possibility to
configure these interface colors separately from the global color configuration
(and probably offer the possibility to deactivate the striped list layouts
altogether) because this would really improve amarok's usability/accessibility.
For comparison, you could have a look at how interface colors may be configured
in Krusader (though I'd also welcome of course a different/less complete
solution).

Thank you for reading!

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
Playlist is striped/partly uses global window background color

Expected Results:  
Playlist's rows should be configurable to be of uniform, user-definable color,
separate from the global colors.

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