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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Sane pseudo random colors; was: PieChart widget
From:       "Richard Moore" <richmoore44 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2007-09-20 20:05:17
Message-ID: 5491a5150709201305j2c2209c7rc416981abcdba129 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 9/20/07, Olaf Schmidt <ojschmidt@kde.org> wrote:
> [ Jaroslaw Staniek, Do., 20. Sep. 2007 ]
> > BTW, regerding your screnshot, I am bit tired having all these colors
> > Qt::red, Qt::green, Qt::blue colors reminding me the MS DOS' CGA era.
>
> Every use of hard-coded colours is a bug:
> * They might clash with the user-chosen
> * They can create serious accessibility problems for partially-sighted users
> (colour blindness; people who need to use dark colour schemes because of
> light allergy)

Incidentally, the problem with QWhatsThis remains in the 4.4
snapshots. It has a fixed palette, see:

http://trolltech.com/developer/task-tracker/index_html?id=170106&method=entry

Cheers

Rich.
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