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

[Thomas Lübking]

So, what's wrong about QPalette::Highlight?

If there /is/ sth. wrong it should be no big deal to open the  KColorScheme 
config and read out the value to avoid linking kdeui, but in general i'd say 
not to add another focus color beyond highlight.

PLUS:
nuno won't like the idea to add color to emphasize the hovered widget ;P

in general, as the hovered item also has the mouse, the hover is a 
supplemental indicator o i hardly see the need of an extra color to indicate 
(yet good too have) 

Regards,
Thomas 2¢s

Am Mittwoch, 27. Juni 2007 21:24 schrieb Matthew Woehlke:
> 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. And we're also attempting to
> standardize the color used to indicate widgets that can currently be
> clicked (i.e. the "hover" color).
>
> There are two problems: one, apparently none of the style developers has
> heard about this until now, and two this currently requires styles to
> link to kdeui (which reportedly causes crashes). So this is an attempt
> to get the right people reading and involved in the conversation.
>
> We need to figure out some resolution, and if it involves API changes,
> we need to figure one out *fast* (else at best we already have dead
> API's in kdeui).
>
> My personal preference is to fix the kdeui crash (if it's still a
> problem) so that styles can use features in kdelibs. (I think this would
> also allow us to kill off kdefx once and for all, by merging it into
> kdeui.)
>
> Some clarifications: One, we aren't asking for instant conformance.
> Conformance by 4.0 would of course be preferable, but really acceptance
> of the policy by the devs is I think enough for now. Two, we aren't
> trying to force anything on *users*, rather it is assumed that this
> could be turned off in either the color or style configuration.
>
> Please include k-c-d in replies.