Temporary KColorScheme change - hard-code some state colors

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Friday 14 September 2007 16:58, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> Jos Poortvliet wrote:
> > And finally, KWin can do this, the style doesn't have to. Blurring,
> > desaturating or darkening inactive windows seems a (compositing)
> > windowmanager job to me.
>
> No, it can't.
>
> - kwin has to ignore certain windows, these will be inconsistent without
> the palette trick.
> - kwin can't do effects with foregrounds because it doesn't know what
> foregrounds are, it just has a big ol' pixmap of the whole window
> - what about other wm's?
>
> Everyone keeps bringing this up, and I'll keep saying the same thing:
> kwin can help (ok, so someone go hack on kwin already), but it is not a
> total solution.
>
> I would *like* to see eventually kwin and KCS cooperating, with KCS
> handling the foreground effects (and inactive effects, which I haven't
> heard anyone complaining about yet), and kwin handling the overall
> effects... *most* of the time.

The very idea of changing the palette of the widgets of inactive windows is 
really, completely, utterly, indefensibly wrong.

-- 
Boudewijn Rempt 
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