A11y guidelines for styles in core KDE - style devs, please read!

[Richard Moore]

On 6/27/07, Maksim Orlovich <mo85 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> First of all, thanks for starting up this thread.
>
> > The usability group has recommended that widgets that currently have
> > input focus be drawn in a different manner using a designated color
> > which is (currently) part of KColorScheme.
>
> I am sorry, but this is simply technically broken. Styles draw primitives
> using the palette given to them in the style options, not some global,
> KDE-specific notion of a color scheme --- heck, they might be used by
> something that's not a KDE app at all. As such, any such 'helpful' colors
> may simply render things unreadable. Any solutions I can think of
> unfortunately may result in inconsistency of behavior.

The obvious example here is when they're used in a Qt only application.

Rich.