Temporary KColorScheme change - hard-code some state colors

[Jos Poortvliet]

On 9/14/07, Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> > 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?
>
> - kwin effects either aren't coded, or don't work on my x-server
>
> > The very idea of changing the palette of the widgets of inactive windows is
> > really, completely, utterly, indefensibly wrong.
>
> Then... why is there Inactive in QPalette::ColorGroup? :-)
>
> At least as far as selections, gtk has been doing this forever, and it's
> one thing I have always liked better about gtk than Qt.

I guess darkening the text on buttons (to name a small thing) wouldn't
be bad, but as it currently is, the whole window darkens - and that
flickers. Let KWin darken (or blur or whatever) the whole window, and
let the style darken JUST a few things, like the text color. Prevent
redrawing the whole window, as doing that is insane.

> --
> Matthew
> The prhase "less is more" takes on a whole new meaning if you think
> about standard Unix tools.
>
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