[PATCH] Font color fixes with partly inverted color schemes

Michael Reiher redm at gmx.de
Fri Oct 30 14:14:29 CET 2009


On Sunday 25 October 2009 17:01:59 Mark Kretschmann wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Michael Reiher <redm at gmx.de> wrote:
> > The attached patch fixes font colors with partly inverted color schemes.
> > That means you have for instance a dark window background with a light
> > window foreground, however a light view background with a dark view
> > foreground. The problem is now that Amarok uses the window background
> > color (dark) to paint view type widgets, but uses the view foreground
> > color (also dark) to paint the text. This gives dark fonts on dark
> > background, which means reduced readability ;) So the patch changes this
> > to use the appropriate window foreground color.
> >
> > The other part of the change concerns hovered tree items. Their
> > background color is shaded with the highlight color, however the
> > foreground color is not set accordingly.
> 
> Michael, the patch does strange things with the text color when
> hovering over an item with my default color scheme. It's now white
> instead of black, causing readability issues,.
> 
> I'm attaching two screenshots that illustrate the problem, first old,
> then new. See the topmost item of the playlist on the right side.
> 
So, would it be ok to commit with the hover change removed? If so, please do 
:) I attached the modified patch to the other mail in reply to Thomas (perhaps 
that was a bit confusing).

Michael


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