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

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A Wednesday 27 June 2007 21:45:44, Thomas Lübking escreveu:
> 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

yes nuno wont like that :)

> 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)
well we can have that as an option in the colorscheme.... its it not to 
intrusive im ok i think....
> 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.



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