dark kde/plasma theme and the context view

[Leo Franchi]

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Mathias Panzenböck
<grosser.meister.morti at gmx.net> wrote:
> On 02/15/2010 04:20 AM, Leo Franchi wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 10:14 PM, Mathias Panzenböck
>> <grosser.meister.morti at gmx.net>  wrote:
>>> Currently some text in the contextview is barely readable when you use a dark
>>> kde theme and a fitting plasma theme. See:
>>> https://web.student.tuwien.ac.at/~e0427417/images/amarok-dark-theme.png
>>>
>>> I think the bluish background of the contextview should be somehow derived from
>>> the kde/plasma theme so that the text always stays readable. Is it maybe
>>> possible to just load the global plasma theme? I'm still somewhat new to this
>>> (the only code I touch in amarok is the podcast support).
>>
>> The plasma theme shouldn't have any effect on the CV---the colors are
>> all based on the KDE "highlight color" (which is light blue in
>> oxygen).
>>
>> If there is any text that is based on the plasma theme that should be
>> modified to use the KDE system color settings instead---can you
>> clarify a little bit?
>>
>> leo
>>
>>
>
> Yes, currently the gobal plasma theme has no effect onto amaroks plasma theme.
> Independent of that, in a dark kde theme the text is bright. But the the bluish
> background color of the context view seems not to be based on anything from the
> kde theme. It seems always to be the same (semi transparent) blue. But the text
> that gets rendered on top of this DOES get the text color from kde and therefore
> it doesn't have good contrast when a dark kde theme is used. See the screenshot.
> I use the "Obsidian Coast" color scheme.

That's because the "hightlight" color of the obsidian coast theme is
that blue that amarok is using (amarok desaturates it a bit).

leo
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