Status of konqueror / dolphin as file manager

[Matthew Woehlke]

Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> Fredrik Höglund wrote:
>> On Tuesday 30 October 2007 23:08, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>>> Thanks for the pointer. This was pretty straight-forward, here's a 
>>> suggested patch:
>>
>> KFileItemDelegate is a class in an public library in KDE, and as such
>> should only use the colors in the QPalette provided by the view in the
>> style options. I'm not going to explain why, since this would be the
>> Nth time that we're having this discussion, and I'm getting tired of
>> repeating myself.
>>
>> You can change the color of the information lines to QPalette::Text
>> if you feel it's a usability improvement.
> 
> It's a feature loss, but it's better than the gross violations we have 
> currently. If the full KDE color scheme is not (currently) usable, then 
> in 4.1 we should provide a way to tell the delegate about other colors 
> it is allowed to use.
> 
> Meanwhile we might try reducing the alpha of QPalette::Text or using the 
> color from the Disabled state (except that this is broken for inactive 
> windows).

Ok, I committed this; KFID uses the normal text color at 60% alpha 
(could probably use 70% even). This reduces the contrast but otherwise 
is safe in all instances.

-- 
Matthew
"What is a release plan, anyway?" -- Oswald Buddenhagen
   ...who I'm sure did not mean it seriously ;-)