[konsole] [Bug 454034] New: "Allow Color Filters" feature is poorly named, surprising and unintuitive

[Hector Martin]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454034

            Bug ID: 454034
           Summary: "Allow Color Filters" feature is poorly named,
                    surprising and unintuitive
           Product: konsole
           Version: 21.12.3
          Platform: Gentoo Packages
                OS: Linux
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: minor
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: konsole-devel at kde.org
          Reporter: hector at marcansoft.com
  Target Milestone: ---

SUMMARY
I've been wondering for months why I sometimes got random colored squares,
usually near my Plasma taskbar, that would disappear as soon as I moved the
mouse.

I just found out it's a Konsole feature today.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Use Konsole with defaults
2. Notice random colored squares appear with no rhyme nor reason
3. Be confused for months
4. Eventually put two and two together and realize it's previewing color names
on hover.
5. Spend 15 minutes looking for the option to turn it off

OBSERVED RESULT
Frustration

EXPECTED RESULT
It should take 2 seconds to understand the feature (and that it is one) and
less than a minute to figure out how to turn it off.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
May I suggest:
- Adding a caption/title to the tooltip, something like "Color preview", to
make it clear it's intentional and not, say, a broken window thumbnail, which
is what it looked like to me at first
- Renaming the setting to something like "Show color preview tooltips" "Preview
color names on hover". I had to literally hover over every setting and read the
explanations to find it. I have no idea what a "color filter" is or why I would
or wouldn't "allow" it.

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