Hi, it looks like there's some trouble using Plasma::Applet::showMessage() in Amarok.
But first some background information for you: Amarok has it's own ContextView - which is a Containment with lots of applets in it. What I'm trying to do is getting the user's attention in exactly ONE applet. The old implementation used KMessageBox. First I thought I could reuse it, but that's not the case. I could only block access to either all or no applets. So I went to #plasma and got a solution: Plasma::Applet::showMessage() So that's where I am right now: I wrote some convenience methods around Plasma::Applet::showMessage(). While testing the code on my box I found out that Amarok's plasma theme (the colors file of the theme to name it more precisely) may be wrong. I'm using a dark theme (called Ember - basically everything is black there). Since I couldn't read the text from showMessage() first I decided to "fix" the colors file and make the text white. I simple set ForegroundNormal=255,255,255 for [Colors:Window] (since the background color is 0,0,0). It turned out that this was a bad idea. The colors in showMessage() are fine for everyone. But in other places it causes trouble. See here: [0] (please note the text of the lyrics applet - which is a Plasma::TextBrowser - also the text-color in some other places changed, for example in some Plasma::Label). Now my question: How to solve this issue? ;) Is there a way to define a text-color for showMessage() directly? Or are we doing some crazy things with Plasma components in Amarok (which are causing the described trouble)? If you need some references to the code: feel free to have a look at Amarok's source code. You may also need to apply my patch from reviewboard: [1]. Feel free to ping me if you have further questions. Regards from Germany, Martin [0] http://i.imgur.com/LZ4Up.jpg [1] http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/100013/diff/ _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
