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

[Fredrik Höglund]

On Wednesday 27 June 2007 21:24, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> 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).

It seems to me that this is a perfect example of why you should have
done this in a branch until you've proved that the API works and is
usable, and only then merged it into trunk.

Fredrik