Properly porting Solarized to Kate/KDevelop -- need to change behavior of search result highlighting

[Ivan Shapovalov]

On 2017-03-05 at 15:47 +0300, Ivan Shapovalov wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to make a proper port of Solarized[1] to Kate/KDevelop and
> it looks like Solarized is incompatible with KTE's search result
> highlighting behavior.
> 
> More specifically, any strong highlighting in Solarized is
> represented
> with inverted colors. The text assumes background color, while the
> background assumes one of the "accent" colors (or, in the simplest
> case, the default foreground color)[2][3].
> 
> This is easy to achieve for text selection: each text style has a
> separate "selected foreground" color which can be set to background
> color[4]. However, search result highlighting in Kate only changes
> the
> background color and leaves text color unmodified[5]. As a result,
> highlighted text is completely illegible, because accent and
> foreground
> colors in Solarized have equal lightness values.
> 
> As a proof-of-concept, I changed behavior of Kate/KDevelop to treat
> search highlighting in the same way as selection, i. e. use the
> "selected" foreground for highlighted search results[6]. However,
> this
> (obviously) breaks existing color schemes.
> 
> It has been suggested on #kdevelop to implement a hidden per-schema
> or
> per-syntax-highlighting flag that will change behavior as described
> above. However, this will be greatly confusing for anybody who
> decides
> to tweak their color scheme or invent a new one via GUI.
> 
> All in all, I don't know whether you will like any of these ideas or
> the concept in general. Any suggestions? My end goal is to have a
> proper port of Solarized in Kate/KDevelop.
> 
> [1]: http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized#usage-development
> 
> [2]: http://storage6.static.itmages.ru/i/17/0305/h_1488717000_1405370
> _329bf9ae4f.png
> [3]: http://storage8.static.itmages.ru/i/17/0305/h_1488717099_1417541
> _fcb38b6d97.png
> 
> [4]: http://storage9.static.itmages.ru/i/17/0305/h_1488717178_3602274
> _9a3644a981.png
> [5]: http://storage7.static.itmages.ru/i/17/0305/h_1488705847_1951698
> _118722209b.png
> [6]: http://storage7.static.itmages.ru/i/17/0305/h_1488705847_4424970
> _75bdae703e.png
> 
> Thanks,
> 

Anybody?

-- 
Ivan Shapovalov / intelfx /
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