[Kstars-devel] switching desktop colors

[Jason Harris]

Hello,

We have a wishlist item (bug #43595) to reset the desktop colors when the 
night-vision color scheme is selected.

After investigating this issue, I've concluded that there's no good way to 
temporarily reset the desktop colors without modifying the user's global 
config files.  I don't want to do this, even temporarily.

We *can* modify the window colors of just the window(s) that belong to KStars 
using QApplication::setPalette().  Thus, if the user chooses night vision 
colors and uses full-screen mode, they'll have a fully night-vision friendly 
desktop (except for the kicker panel).

Another idea I had was to just include a "Night Vision" KDE desktop color 
scheme, which the user could select themselves when using KStars in dark 
conditions.  The installation of the desktop color scheme could be part of 
the KStars startup wizard.

Any thoughts?

Jason
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