Mocups of focus hints for panes

[Olaf Schmidt]

Hi Matthew!

Nice work.

I totally agree with adding new colours for the focus, but I believe those 
should be available in the general colour configuration and for all styles.

In the HCI working group, we already discussed adding additional colour roles 
to kcontrol. We have worked out a suggestion that serves the needs of 
artwork, usability and accessibility. For example, extending the colour 
schemes makes it possible to create colour schemes for users with visually 
users. Currently those colour schemes break in most KDE applications because 
of custom colours (e.g. KMail, Konqueror, Kate, Konversation, Kopete, ...)

You can find an outdated version of the document here:
http://amen-online.de/~olafschmidt/colors/colors.pdf
All the mockups for new or changed widgets have been much changed in the 
meantime in cooperation with Ellen, and I will soon update that document 
accordingly,

The complete list of suggested colour roles pairs (each with foreground and 
background colour) for kcontrol is:

standard
window
button
tool tip

selection
focus
focussed selection

active window title
inactive window frame
active window title
inactive window frame

colour 2 (e.g. Link, Unread)
colour 3 (e.g. Link, Read)
colour 4 (e.g. New)
colour 5 (e.g. Error or Warning)
colour 6 (e.g. Trusted)
colour 7 (e.g. Encrypted)
colour 8 (e.g. Comment or Alternate List Background)

The idea is that the numbered colours can be used by applications that need 
more colours than usual (e.g. KMail, Konqueror, Kate, Konversation, 
Kopete...). They can be mixed with each other and with standard / window / 
button / tool tip.

Olaf