proposal to extend and to improve KColorSchemeManager

[Aleix Pol]

On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 2:56 PM, Alexander Semke <alexander.semke at web.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently switched from using Digikam's code for the handling of color
> schemes in the application to KColorSchemeManager in LabPlot [1].
> It works, but there're couple of things that I miss:
>
> * "Default"-entry in the color scheme menu to easily switch to the default
> desktop color scheme
> * save the settings for the selected color scheme and load the proper scheme
> on start
> * automatically set the corresponding action in the scheme menu checked for
> the used color scheme on start
> * include couple of "kf5 default" color scheme definition files as part of
> KF5 so the application don't need to provide them on their own
> * standard name and icon used for the color scheme menu title
> * main menu bar and QMdiArea don't get updated on color scheme changes. For
> QMdiArea I added a "hack" in LabPlot now [1], the problem with the menu bar
> still remains.
>
> At the moment it looks to me like different applications (digikam, kdevelop,
> krita, labplot, kstars, etc.) take care of these points on their own or
> don't handle them at all.
> It would be great to provide this kind of functionality in a central place.
> This would also help to provide a common behavior for all KF5-based
> applications.
>
> Any thoughts on this?

It all sounds like there's bugs that needs fixing to me. It's much
better than adding work-arounds in your applications.

Patches welcome! :)
Aleix

On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 2:56 PM, Alexander Semke <alexander.semke at web.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently switched from using Digikam's code for the handling of color
> schemes in the application to KColorSchemeManager in LabPlot [1].
> It works, but there're couple of things that I miss:
>
> * "Default"-entry in the color scheme menu to easily switch to the default
> desktop color scheme
> * save the settings for the selected color scheme and load the proper scheme
> on start
> * automatically set the corresponding action in the scheme menu checked for
> the used color scheme on start
> * include couple of "kf5 default" color scheme definition files as part of
> KF5 so the application don't need to provide them on their own
> * standard name and icon used for the color scheme menu title
> * main menu bar and QMdiArea don't get updated on color scheme changes. For
> QMdiArea I added a "hack" in LabPlot now [1], the problem with the menu bar
> still remains.
>
> At the moment it looks to me like different applications (digikam, kdevelop,
> krita, labplot, kstars, etc.) take care of these points on their own or
> don't handle them at all.
> It would be great to provide this kind of functionality in a central place.
> This would also help to provide a common behavior for all KF5-based
> applications.
>
> Any thoughts on this?
>
>
> Regards,
> Alexander
>
> [1]
> https://cgit.kde.org/labplot.git/commit/?id=c609edcb6255242ea25ad81ff6601061edcbe57f