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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Review Request: --hard_coded_colors in kalarm
From:       "Matthew Woehlke" <mw_triad () users ! sourceforge ! net>
Date:       2009-08-12 0:48:53
Message-ID: 20090812004853.4268.18087 () localhost
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> On 2009-08-11 23:16:35, David Jarvie wrote:
> > This seems a sensible idea. The colours are ok except for the archived alarm colour, which is quite \
> > similar in the default KDE colour scheme to the disabled alarm colour. They need to be clearly \
> > distinct by default since disabled and archived status are very different.
> 
> Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> It is? It should be purple (#644A9B) versus gray (#888786). Semantically speaking, VisitedText is best.
> 
> If not Visited, what would you use?
> 
> David Jarvie wrote:
> I don't really care how the colour is classified, since there isn't one defined as "archived alarm". \
> The important thing is that it's clearly different from the disabled alarm colour.

I, however, care about correct semantic use of our color roles (and I also feel that the difference \
between #644A9B and #888786 is sufficient).

As this deals with Usability, anyone else want to comment?


- Matthew


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On 2009-08-12 00:48:33, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
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> (Updated 2009-08-12 00:48:33)
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> 
> Review request for usability and David Jarvie.
> 
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> Summary
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> 
> Hard-coded colors are Evil (bad Usability, bad Accessibility, and just plain bad... not to mention not \
> very aesthetic in this case IMO). This removes the major hard-coded colors in KAlarm (default alarm \
> colors, colors in the alarm list), the latter of which are especially bad as they can be illegible in \
> some color schemes. 
> ...but there are others in at least eventlistmodel.cpp, messagewin.cpp, dbushandler.cpp and \
> resourcemodelview.cpp. Depending on how motivated I feel, more patches might follow in the future. 
> 
> Diffs
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> /trunk/KDE/kdepim/kalarm/kalarmconfig.kcfg 1010227 
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> Diff: http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/1288/diff
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> Testing
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> built and ran, colors were okay as checked by viewing in Settings, New Alarm, and a disabled alarm.
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> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Matthew
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> 

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