KDE/kdevelop/languages/cpp

[David Nolden]

On Friday 07 December 2007 14:07:06 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> I'm not sure I understand everything there. I had thought of a simple
> color dialog where you can just add colors to a list, which would get
> used for variable highlighting.
>
> I'm not sure complete auto-computing colors works, Matthew Woehlke or
> Fredrik Hoeglund would be the ones to ask about that.
>
> Also having too many colors might pose a usability problem as well, i.e.
> making the code itself harder readable. I haven't tested your changes,
> so this is just me thinking out loud.
>
> Andreas

I think letting the user pick each color would be configuration overkill. The 
only important thing about the colors is that they are distinguishable, 
that's why they span over the whole range of possible colors. What would make 
sense would be an option to choose how many different colors there should 
be(also changing the distance of the colors), maybe their 
brightness/saturation, and whether the background-color should also be 
changed for the highlighting.

greetings, David