On Thursday 09 April 2009, Helio Chissini de Castro wrote: > Hello everyone. > > Near to our release on next Mandriva, we got an issue related to color > contrast in kde 4.2.x. > > First of all, here's the screenshot of basically the default desktop: > http://users.mandriva.com.br/~heliocastro/mandriva_free.jpg > > So, we are using Aya theme, against a dark background. > Aya theme is light, invoking black color text. > There's where the issue comes. Pay attention to Cashew menu and most worst, > the text below the Trashcan in upper left. > > For light backgrounds with white text, there's no same issue. Happens > always in the combination of dark background with light themes. > > So, for 4.4 maybe is a good idea to study this specific issue and have some > solution for this, but for now, i'm out of a simple solution than do a ugly > hack for solve our issues. I'm not up to fight against our local Vogons ( > also know as marketing department ) > > So we need at least in future the possibility of set color for items like > icon text color, desktop plasma menu text color, etc... > I just don't know how this can fit in the current plasma theme model no, don't thinkexploding the theme colors is a good idea, i think something could be done to give it more contrast, like a stronger halo or a semitransparent rounded rectangle behind the text when the text is black, this could involve a single simple modifcation just to IconWidget i think it should be tried with a stronger halo first, maybe just painting the blur pixmap two times, if it's not enough trying with a rectangle background
Cheers, Marco Martin > > []'s _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
