> >
> > Open okular, click the content area (where you see the pages) to focus
> > it, and voila, any widget in the sidebar (TOC, annotation tree, etc)
> > becomes inactive and with a grey text, making it _totally unreadable_.
> > You have to explicitely focus the sidebar again to even read the TOC.
> > Can that be a good reason to avoid this active != inactive coloring?
> > You choose, having that effect, or having an _usable_ document viewer.
>
> sometimes i think im talking to myself here.....
> it should be extremly sutle, the way it is IS FOR TESTING!

Well, then, consider the test does not pass.

The inactive color is applied even to widgets in the same window, try out the 
fonts dialog for some fun. When the font family list has the focus, the 
variant and point size lists have the lighter text color.
Is this really what you want?

Luciano