Preview of white font on... white background... what to do?

[C. Boemann]

On Monday 04 June 2012 14:21:07 Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> a problem with the otherwise great text style previews in the style
> selectors is that they fail if the color of the style is the same as the
> background in the selector. E.g. the installed "Colorful Document" ODT has
> a white color for the header text style, so the name will not visible in
> the selector if the background of the selector is white as well.
> 
> Any good idea what to do about that?
I assume in the template it's supposed to be on top of something colorful. Hmm 
no I don't have a solution for that, not really much we can do.

And then.. I was thinking that instead of scaling down previews that doesn't 
fit we should always draw them at their right size, even if we cut them. But at 
the same time we should with the small font, (using xor) draw the name. Then 
at least the name would always be visible.

How does this sound. Pierre I'm also asking you here?

> BTW, if using the "Colorful Document" as template in Calligra Words, the
> header bar does not have the color as in the preview. Is that problem known
> and anyone looking into it?
> 
i'm aware (way in the back of my head), but i don't think anyone is really 
looking into it.

We really need good new templates, the current ones don't even use style 
inheritance