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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Hardcoded colours ( was Re: color schemes )
From:       mosfet <mosfet () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2000-05-30 0:31:59
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Wilco Greven wrote:
> 
> On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 12:07:08AM -0400, tibirna@kde.org wrote:
> >
> > Hello
> >
> > I don't know anymore:
> >
> > - who's looking after the color schemes;
> > - if there were discussions about including Link/Active Link/Visited Link
> > colors in the color schemes definition.
> >
> > Right now, the default color combinations for URLs in
> > konqui-web/konqui-fm/kdesktop are very bad matches for "inverse" color
> > schemes like DarkBlue or DigitalCDE.
> 
> Thanks for bringing up this subject. The problem is not only the colour of
> links, but hardcoded colours in general, and especially widgets which use
> hardcoded colours and colours from the palette simultaneously. Some apps which
> do this are KControlCenter (the help tab, hardcoded yellow background on which
> white text is invisible) and KSpread (the canvas, when using a white
> foreground, you can't read the table name). Also Konqueror should use --IMHO--
> colours from the palette for the iconview, instead of white.
> 
> Furthermore, some styles use hardcoded colours too. B2-highcolor uses
> hardcoded black arrows for example.
> 

Your right about B2 highcolor. It uses black for normal, light for
sunken, and mid for disabled. It will be fixed when I commit the new
theme stuff (got lots of new stuff to commit that regretfully likes to
segfault currently, and don't want to keep two versions around ;-)

> Wilco
> 
> > Thanks for listening
> >
> > --
> > Cristian Tibirna     : ctibirna@total.net     : www.total.net/~ctibirna
> > PhD Student          : ctibirna@gch.ulaval.ca : web.gch.ulaval.ca/~ctibirna
> > KDE contact - Canada :  tibirna@kde.org       : www.kde.org
> >

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