Temporary KColorScheme change - hard-code some state colors

[pinheiro]

A Monday 17 September 2007 12:22:46, Richard Dale escreveu:
> On Monday 17 September 2007, pinheiro wrote:
> > A Monday 17 September 2007 09:09:38, Jakob Petsovits escreveu:
> > > On Sunday, 16. September 2007, pinheiro wrote:
> > > > A Sunday 16 September 2007 14:22:47, Jakob Petsovits escreveu:
> > > > > Just out of interest, could you post the same mockup without
> > > > > background changes (but all the other effects being kept)?
> > > > >
> > > > > The mockup above contains subtle changes:
> > > > > #D5D5D7 vs. #DBDBDD, and
> > > > > #C5C5C7 vs. #CBCBCD.
> > > > >
> > > > > It would be interesting to see if it looks similarly inactive if
> > > > > both versions have the *B*B*D background colors.
> > > >
> > > > i think it not that bad but it kind loses some thing recognicion is
> > > > now only in the title bar. and the shadow
> > > > http://www.nuno-icons.com/images/estilo/image4618nocoloring.png
> > >
> > > I find them both equally great!
> > > (And the new line at the bottom of the title bar also does a good job.)
> > >
> > > Sorry to say that I'm now on the no-background-changes side as well :P
> >
> > i think we should keep this feature turned off by defoult for the moment
> > until we get it in to ship shape condition, (the flikering and the delay
> > are real issues that we must deal with until we can realy use it) AFIK
> > its rely not big on cpu so ithink we should try it as an option as i
> > think many of the issues will be solved in the near future..
>
> No, the hack to use the inactive control color palette for entire windows
> is just broken and can never be made to work properly.
Plese explain me how come? sory coding is not my experties.
> The visual metaphor 
> you use for indicating the an individual control is inactive is different
> from the metaphor that you might want to use within the window contents to
> indicate the entire window is inactive. If you tune the colors to make the
> inactive window effect less intrusive, it will mean the the effect for
> inactive controls will probably be wrong. There are various other issues
> too, such as some windows like passive popups never becoming the key window
> and so they will always be dimmed.

> We would need to use another mechanism entirely to do the effect that Mac
> OS X has - ie only change the color of the knob in a scroll bar and only
> just the color of selections. The inactive palette effect does far more
> than just that. I assume that the Qt style for Mac OS X must do this
> already, and maybe there is some api in Qt to allow it to work that we
> could experiment with using.

Yes i know mac does that but i would like to try chaging it all like in my 
other mock.

> > for the moment the windek will be worked so it goes like that last mock,
> > that needed to be done any way.... think its good compromise and one that
> > will please everybody right people?
>
> I think the mock up in the above link looks very good, and looks as though
> there will be no technical problems in implementing it.
>
> -- Richard



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