New repo in kdereview: kasts

[David Hurka]

Hi Bart,

just reading this thread, without looking at kasts:

> > - something is wonky with the colors on desktop. in all listviews it
> > looks like the delegates are inactive/disabled colors for some reason.
> > e.g. https://i.imgur.com/xkgigs4.png
> 
> Ah, yes, this is intended behaviour.
> When you first import a podcast feed (or OPML), it will mark all
> episodes up to that point as 'played'.  Which will show them with those
> inactive/disabled colors.  Once the feed's been imported, new episodes
> will show up with regular colors until they've been marked as 'played'.
> This behaviour will save users having to manually mark all episodes as
> marked.

From reading this email, that seems strange to me. From FreeCAD I learned that 
it is confusing when controls look disabled, but are not, and actually want to 
visualize something else. AFAIK there is a set of “active” colors, maybe the 
list items could use these to mark new episodes as “new”? Otherwise, use a 
bold or italic font?

> > - I see you are hardcoding a color in GenericHeader.qml, I'm not super
> > sure that will work correctly across different themes but then I also
> 
> > don't really see the color actively used :shrug:
> 
> There are two hardcoded colours: one is an alpha mask to make the
> blurred background picture on the header dark enough to have enough
> contrast to be able to read the feed title in white (second hardcoded
> colour).
> This should work across all possible themes, but I'm open to other, more
> elegant solutions.

If you use Qt 5.15, you can use QColorTransform/applyColorTransform() to do 
cool stuff with image colors. QPainter also supports various composition 
modes, which allow other cool stuff.

Of course, you should check yourself, how much my suggestions apply to your 
project. :)

Cheers, David