UI color palettes vs. document color palettes (& style previews)

[Friedrich W. H. Kossebau]

Am Donnerstag, 10. Mai 2012, 20:15:54 schrieb Gopalakrishna Bhat:
> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 8:10 PM, C. Boemann <cbo at boemann.dk> wrote:
> > On Thursday 10 May 2012 16:34:49 Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> > > Am Donnerstag, 10. Mai 2012, 16:12:19 schrieb C. Boemann:
> > > > On Wednesday 09 May 2012 23:55:00 Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > > 
> > > > > I am currently looking into fixing the conflict of the
> > > > > character/paragraph preview rendering e.g. in the paragraph style
> > > > > selection combobox (see attachment), which shows most with dark UI
> > > > > color schemes.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Who else has looked into that before or is perhaps looking right now
> > 
> > or
> > 
> > > > > plans to do so?
> > > > 
> > > > No one i think, but pierre stirnweiss is the one who made the combobox
> > > 
> > > Okay.
> > > 
> > > BTW, while looking into the preview stuff I have now started to also
> > > work
> > > on making
> > > 
> > >        FormattingPreview to use KoStyleThumbnailer
> > 
> > Hold! Gopalakrishna is already doing that

Meh... okay. So simply looking for a related branch in the main repo was not 
safe here :) Good I asked soon after I found myself crashing on the first 
hundred lines... ;) no big deal, some parts might be reuseable.

> > > (and clean up the cruft in the textshape setting dialogs), as both the
> > > preview in the style select combo box and the preview in the dialog(s)
> > > have lots in commons, so are better be done in one go.
> > > (Using the thumbnailer in the dialog was talked about in
> > > http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/104411 ), Gopalakrishna, have you
> > 
> > already
> > 
> > > also started on this?
> > > 
> > > But I will wait for the patch from mojtaba shahi named "sure new name
> > > for
> > > style is unique" to be in master before I post a first patch draft for
> > > review, as these patches are slightly conflicting.
> > > Hopefully that is the only conflict currently I need to take care of.
> > 
> > well apart from Gopalakrishna doing the thumbnailer then yes
> 
>  I'm almost done with that :)

Good :) Is your work visible somewhere, so I can check what conflicts are 
waiting for me on my patch-in-progress for the style selection combobox? 

Cheers
Friedrich