From kde-bugs-dist  Sat Dec 31 20:43:44 2005
From: Mats Ahlgren <ahlgren () mit ! edu>
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 20:43:44 +0000
To: kde-bugs-dist
Subject: [Bug 119322] New: graphical artifacts due to custom interface colors
Message-Id: <20051231214342.119322.ahlgren () mit ! edu>
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http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119322         
           Summary: graphical artifacts due to custom interface colors
                    (especially with KDE custom window color gradient)
           Product: amarok
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Ubuntu Packages
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: amarok-bugs-dist lists sourceforge net
        ReportedBy: ahlgren mit edu


Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.4.3)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

Using custom colors produces many graphical artifacts:

Replication:
1- Menu: Settings > Configure AmaroK > Appearance > Custom Color Scheme
2- Set the colors to something kind of light-on-dark (e.g. light blue on dark blue, maybe even white on black).
3- Set KDE's color scheme to a gradient: launch kcontrol, go to Appearance/Themes > Colors, select "Blue Slate"

What you see:
- You see many flat dark rectangles (background color) around the screen within the gradient-colored menubars and panels; this is most noticable with: 1) the text "search" to the right of the black "[X>" icon on the filter bar, which is black-on-black and manifests as a black box on a gradient; 2) the volume control, which is hard to see because it's dark-blue-on-black, and also manifests as a black box in the middle of a nice gradient toolbar; 3) the Fourier Transform box, which also manifests as a black box in the middle of a nice gradient toolbar
- There's no way to edit the colors of the text used for songs.
- There're odd and large dark borders around the toolbars in various browsers, e.g. the Collection Browser.

The 'Search' button graphical artifact should be easy to fix. I would suggest that the easiest way to fix the bottom panel would be to keep it a toolbar (like it is right now I'm guessing) but give it a solid background color that trumps KDE's background gradient. However, I think the most elegant and prettiest way to fix it would be to make the volume control have a transparent background, and give the FFT box a nice, perhaps 2-4 pixel, border.