Re: Contrast plasma::theme color issues

2009-04-09 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Thursday 09 April 2009, Jud Craft wrote: > Can any Plasma theme be branded? yes. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Software signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: Contrast plasma::theme color issues

2009-04-09 Thread Jud Craft
I think branding is a separate debate from "their lack of taste in the theme they use by default." Can any Plasma theme be branded? OpenSUSE seemed to do a decent job giving a green-gloss to Oxygen instead of the blue; different, but it looked okay. ___

Re: Contrast plasma::theme color issues

2009-04-09 Thread Alexis Ménard
I can understand the branding though, otherwise you can't differentiate a distrib A to a distrib B. But is it really what the end user want? no, he just want something that works, cool, new, and beautiful. I have also many friends asking how to remove the opensuse logo and instead use KDE one for

Re: Contrast plasma::theme color issues

2009-04-09 Thread Marco Martin
On Thursday 09 April 2009, nuno pinheiro wrote: ... > In this case i know and its couse the marketing team in mandriva wants > gnome and kde desktop to look alike, so yeah > g. makes me wonder wtf do we work > for > fortunatly every one i know the frist

Re: Contrast plasma::theme color issues

2009-04-09 Thread pinheiro
A Quinta 09 Abril 2009 18:40:46 Aaron J. Seigo você escreveu: > On Thursday 09 April 2009, Helio Chissini de Castro wrote: > > For light backgrounds with white text, there's no same issue. Happens > > always in the combination of dark background with light themes. > > the solution is simple: make t

Re: Contrast plasma::theme color issues

2009-04-09 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Thursday 09 April 2009, Helio Chissini de Castro wrote: > For light backgrounds with white text, there's no same issue. Happens > always in the combination of dark background with light themes. here's another approach for icons: paint a small colour lozenge behind the text. sort of like MacOS,

Re: Contrast plasma::theme color issues

2009-04-09 Thread Alexis Ménard
Completely agree on that...Same for OpenSuse 11.1 they ship Aya by default, first thing i do (when it's not my own build), get rid of the ugly default. Please listen users (and sometime just ask them what they want or what are their habits) They want NEW stuff not a KDE3-like theme. What i still

Re: Contrast plasma::theme color issues

2009-04-09 Thread nuno pinheiro
A Quinta 09 Abril 2009 18:40:46 Aaron J. Seigo você escreveu: > On Thursday 09 April 2009, Helio Chissini de Castro wrote: > > For light backgrounds with white text, there's no same issue. Happens > > always in the combination of dark background with light themes. > > the solution is simple: make t

Re: Contrast plasma::theme color issues

2009-04-09 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Thursday 09 April 2009, Helio Chissini de Castro wrote: > For light backgrounds with white text, there's no same issue. Happens > always in the combination of dark background with light themes. the solution is simple: make the halo larger and perhaps don't use such a small font. > So, for 4.4

Re: Contrast plasma::theme color issues

2009-04-09 Thread Marco Martin
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/mand

Contrast plasma::theme color issues

2009-04-09 Thread Helio Chissini de Castro
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.