Set shadowSortColumn false per default

[Jason Keirstead]

On Tuesday 21 December 2004 1:28 pm, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> innovation? if something makes it inhospitable to the majority of our new
> users then that's one thing, but simply being different is not an argument
> in an of itself IMHO.

I think the first thing you said definitly applys here - this is going to be 
confusing at best, annoying at worst, to any new KDE users coming from Mac, 
Windows, or Gnome.

> that said, i'm reminded of the "titles in the K Menu" discussion:

The KMenu titles is not a good example, because it is blatently obvious what 
those are - titles for the applications. What this column shading is doing is 
in no way obvious. Why is this column shaded differently than the others? Is 
it a bug (this is what I thought at first!!!)? Is it because there is some 
problem with an item in that column? Is it because the odd numbered columns 
are being shaded and this is column 1? Is it because this column contains 
some form of important information?

It is totally not intuitive that this colorization is indicating the sort 
column. Colorization usually either indicates that a GUi item is in some way 
important or requires attention, or is done to increase readability (as in 
alternating listview colors). The sort column is not an important item 
usability wise (and even if it was, it is indicated as such by the header), 
nor does shading it it increase readability. In fact it could be said it 
decreases readability since now I have black text on a grey background, 
rather than a white one.

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