Temporary KColorScheme change - hard-code some state colors

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 15.09.07 17:06:00, pinheiro wrote:
> A Saturday 15 September 2007 16:27:01, Kevin Ottens escreveu:
> > Le samedi 15 septembre 2007, Jos Poortvliet a écrit :
> > > Lets add to that how controversial the feature proved to be earlier...
> > >  Yet I applaud matthew for trying new things. If this is easy to turn
> > > of, it's not a big thing to test it until release.
> >
> > Except that if it gets disabled just before the release it is code that
> > will start to bitrot immediately.
> >
> > > This is the only
> > > way we can really innovate - try. And don't be to hard on those who
> > > do.
> >
> > Trying is fine, pushing to trunk is different. For experiments we have
> > branches and we definitely don't use them enough in our development
> > pattern... I admit subversion doesn't make it easy to work with branches
> > though which is a shame.
> >
> > With sane branch support this stuff could have been developed and finished
> > properly in a branch first (that is sane defaults and/or support for
> > configuration). And, only when done, it could have been merged to trunk if
> > there was no objection. This way we could have avoided pissing off a good
> > part of our developer base.
> 
> Ok but people must admit that wen Mathew frist asked about this here, he 
> satarted to talk to himself for the longuest time. So people were not that 
> much responsive to his ideas.

Yes, because just from words its not possible for the "usual developer"
to understand what effect a change on "visuals" will have. Thus they
don't comment, because they've got more urgent things to look at in this
stage of the release cycle.

> > > How about this:
> > >>> punish mediocre successes, reward brilliant failures.
> >
> > What about this one:
> > "science without conscience is but the ruin of the soul"
> > (François Rabelais)
> >
> > So yeah, experiment but do it responsibly.
> 
> There is ui on the making so you can fine tune it. Responsabilty part.
> I just saw a screeniwe (thanks Richard Dale) of the diference and yes it's way 
> to much, but it is mostly in testing phase, until the control thing is not 
> done, its good to test. If i recal now it is in maximum diference betwin 
> active an inactive. 

As others have said: Branches are for testing. And apart from a "subtle"
change being a usability issue because people with eye-problems won't
notice it, the technical problem of redrawing large parts of a window is
not going away just by making the color difference smaller.

Andreas

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