[RFC] Color usability time, take 2

[Matthew Woehlke]

Olaf Schmidt wrote:
> [ Matthew Woehlke, Di., 5. Jun. 2007 ]
>> alert -> fgError (bg/fg swapped) *
>> function -> fgVisited
>> region -> fgActive (bg/fg swapped) *
>> error -> fgNegative [underlined]
>>
>> (* yes, bad for accessibility I know, but I'm also balancing against not
>> changing the existing colors too radically)
> 
> In the new HIG, therew will be a rule saying that forground colours may never 
> be used as background colours. Usability tests with partially sighted people 
> have shown that the text can be completely unreadable for them otherwise.

I'm aware of it, I just ran out of ways to coerce those roles into 
fitting kate's needs :-(. So, better suggestions welcome, because I 
couldn't think of anything. Do we need to add >8 roles? (I guess we 
could use a different background role here, and selection will just be 
the way it is?) These two attributes in kate are meant to be serious 
eye-catchers...

-- 
Matthew
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
(...with apologies to Arthur C. Clarke)