Fwd: Color, Icon and Font Settings in KDE4
Aaron J. Seigo
aseigo at kde.org
Mon Apr 2 23:16:01 BST 2007
hi brad...
we talked ever-so-briefly about colours on the desktop while i was up in oslo
last week, and the other day this came through on kde-core-devel; i thought
i'd pass it on to you as point #1 in the mail below probably figures into
what you're working on with xsettings and handling colours in a cross desktop
fashion. at least, it should give you a better idea of what the HCI people
are thinking about and hoping us devs will implement ;)
let me know what you think? (i've cc'd kde-core-devel as that's where this
thread originated)
---------- Forwarded Message ----------
Subject: Color, Icon and Font Settings in KDE4
Date: Saturday 31 March 2007
From: Olaf Schmidt <ojschmidt at kde.org>
To: kde-core-devel at kde.org
Hi!
The feature plan contains a usability and accessibility review period that has
not yet started.
We nevertheless decided to forward some of the already known issues to
kde-core-devel earlier to make it easier to fix them before the full API
freeze.
1. The handling of colours, icons and fonts in KDE can be much improved.
You can find a description of useful changes here:
http://amen-online.de/%7Eolafschmidt/colors/colors.pdf
Qt designer mockups are also available:
http://amen-online.de/%7Eolafschmidt/colors/designer.tar.gz
We are aware that it would be unrealistic to expect everything to be change in
time for KDE 4.0, but it would be nice if at least the colour scheme system
could be updated soon.
My impression is that does not need to be an intrusive API change if done
well, but I am not a real programmer, so this is up to you to decide how to
best tackle.
2. We need to organise a review of all widgets in kdelibs/kdebase for
compatibility with the new QAccessible architecture. Is there a list
somewhere with all the widgets that exist?
Olaf
PS: I will be away from tomorrow to Thursday, so I will be unable to quickly
respond to questions. But I expect Ellen (for topic 1) and Harald Fernengel
(for topic 2) to be able to answer even better than me.
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