[rekonq] Theme support for rekonq?

[Richard Llom]

Hello Andrea,

andrea diamantini wrote:
> Hi Richard,
> the problem related to theme support is not really a bug in rekonq, but a
> trivial fix we had to apply because of a qtwebkit bug. This, when applied
> a dark theme, basically show dark background + dark foreground color
> (unreadable) when a site does not set a background color/image.
> 
but it also appears in rekonq "own" sites, ie. check the search field in 
"History" or "Downloads".

> We need to wait fixes around this before trying removing our easy
> workaround.
> 
I don't want to remove any workaround, but rather give the option for 
another. Also AFAIK qt(4)webkit is dead, ie. there are no further releases, 
no?

> I hope Qt 5 webkit release has this just fixed. In that case, you'll find
> rekonq working here in the first kf5 release :)
> 
But this is sooo looong away...

Can't the themeing feature from calligra words etc. be ported to rekonq and 
then released within the KDE 4 SC (timeframe)?

> Regards,
> 
cheers
richard


> 2014-03-03 23:45 GMT+01:00 Richard Llom:
>> Hello,
>> I really like rekonq :-) , but I also like dark themes ...
>>
>> Judging from my own experience (and looking at the bugs in bko), sadly
>> these
>> two don't go very well hand in hand.
>>
>>
>> Now I have seen that krita and the whole calligra suite support theming,
>> ie.
>> you can choose a different theme in the app from your main theme.
>>
>> I think this would very nicely resolve (circumvent) all these dark theme
>> issues in rekonq.
>>
>> What do you guys think?
>>
>> cheers
>> richard