[Kde-accessibility] kate folding marker patch

[Christoph Cullmann]

On Thursday 08 January 2009 03:20:12 Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> (Let's try a wider audience. I don't know where the other kate devs are,
> if they just missed the original thread or what... a11y people, I'd also
> appreciate any comments/concerns on the proposed method of making colors.)
Guess away :)

>
> I'm sitting on a patch for https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173695.
> I was intending to check it in this week, and Dirk just went and
> branched on me :-). Well, the good news is I can start working on a
> better fix now ;-).
>
> Anyway... there is no way at this point to fix this properly in 4.2
> (needs UI, and hence string, changes). The a11y implications of the
> current behavior are not so fun. (I guess what it currently does - i.e.
> completely ignore kate's colors and use the system scheme - is okay, but
> responsible for the bug in the first place.)
>
> What I'd like to do is make the original background color "correct".
> However this has the potential to do Horrible Things depending on how
> the color scheme is configured, so my inclination is to drop the rainbow
> effect for now and use a straight-up blend from the base background in
> the direction of the foreground color. This is what I'd check into 4.2,
> if anything. The alternative is to leave it broken in 4.2.
>
> For 4.3 I intend to take a very large axe to the current config dialog
> and add proper configurability for this, at which point the default will
> be similar to the current code, but configurable.
>
> There is a patch at [1] that may or may not still apply cleanly (one
> hunk, for a different but related bug, is already committed). It's less
> eye-candy, but otherwise seems about equally useful (at least to me),
> and avoids the potential a11y pitfalls.
I can live with that patch, as long as a11y is happy with it, it is ok for me.

cu
Christoph

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