[Konsole-devel] Review Request: Change the "Bold" key of ColorScheme from boolean to tri-state

[Jekyll Wu]

> On April 17, 2012, 12:45 p.m., Kurt Hindenburg wrote:
> > GO ahead - I would agree that the color boldness should be to only one - I think the profile one was an easy to find option for users.
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> Jekyll Wu wrote:
>     Well, if you also think this per-color-bold(heritage from the KDE3 era?) is not that useful or does not make sense anymore, then I think the better choice is to remove this hidden feature.
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>     And if applying this patch, there is another thing to consider:  
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>      * "Bold=false" does not work before, while it works now(forcing using normal font weight). 
>      * "Bold=false" entries are alreayd used in some colorschemes,  like Linux, GreenOnBlack, etc
>      * That means uses who use the Linux colorsheme would find that they can't have bold text anymore(because Bold=false works now).
>      * To avoid that problem, we need to not only remove existing "Bold=false" entries from konsole repository, but also write some kconf-update script to remove existing "Bold=false" entries from users' konsole data folder.
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>     I'm opt to remove that per-color-bold control, because the per-profile "BoldIntense" option should be enough.
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> Kurt Hindenburg wrote:
>     I'm beginning to think you're correct.  Having the hand-edited colorscheme Bold= never really seemed like a good idea.

Well, that "Bold=" key can be used to achieve some interesting results. For example, we can mark all normal colors as "Bold=true" and all intense colors as "Bold=false", which effectively inverts the bold/normal semantic.

But yes, it is not that intuitive to put something controlling boldness into colorscheme.
  


- Jekyll


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On April 15, 2012, 11:35 a.m., Jekyll Wu wrote:
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> (Updated April 15, 2012, 11:35 a.m.)
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> Review request for Konsole.
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> Description
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> Tha patch is trivial. Konsole now supports "Bold=true", "Bold=false" and other values(which all mean using Character::UseCurrentFormat).
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> However, I just wonder how useful this per-color boldness controlling could be. We already have the "BoldIntense" per-profile option to enable or disable boldness. Do we need two levels of boldness control: per-profile and per-color in each colorscheme?
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> This addresses bug 168300.
>     http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168300
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> Diffs
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>   src/ColorScheme.cpp 1acb4d4 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/104605/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Jekyll Wu
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