Contrast plasma::theme color issues

[nuno pinheiro]

A Quinta 09 Abril 2009 18:40:46 Aaron J. Seigo você escreveu:
> On Thursday 09 April 2009, Helio Chissini de Castro wrote:
> > For light backgrounds with white text, there's no same issue. Happens
> > always in the combination of dark background with light themes.
>
> the solution is simple: make the halo larger and perhaps don't use such a
> small font.
>
> > So, for 4.4 maybe is a good idea to study this specific issue and have
> > some solution for this, but for now, i'm out of a simple solution than do
> > a ugly hack for solve our issues.
>
> it doesn't require an ugly hack at all. here's your patch, applies in
> kdelibs/plasma/:
>
> Index: widgets/iconwidget.cpp
> ===================================================================
> --- widgets/iconwidget.cpp      (revision 951209)
> +++ widgets/iconwidget.cpp      (working copy)
> @@ -976,7 +976,7 @@
>          shadowOffset = QPoint(0, 1);
>      }
>
> -    PaintUtils::shadowBlur(shadow, 2, d->shadowColor);
> +    PaintUtils::shadowBlur(shadow, 4, d->shadowColor);
>      painter->drawImage(textBoundingRect.topLeft() + shadowOffset, shadow);
>      d->drawTextItems(painter, option, labelLayout, infoLayout);
>  }
>
> > So we need at least in future the possibility of set color for items like
> > icon text color, desktop plasma menu text color, etc...
>
> not necessary.
>
> now the commentary part of my email:
> > First of all, here's the screenshot of basically the default desktop:
> > http://users.mandriva.com.br/~heliocastro/mandriva_free.jpg
> >
> > So, we are using Aya theme, against a dark background.
>
> may i ask: why Aya?
>
> we include Aya for boring, conservative desks. think "i'm an accountant and
> always wear a yellow bow tie to work. sometimes i put sugar *and* cream in
> my coffee!!!"
>
> i dunno .. it's like giving people the choice between a cool, hip suit and
> a paper bag and they pick the paper bag to wear outside.
>
> i'm really disappointed in defaults distros are choosing because they
> totally make it pointless for us to do any art when the distros prove over
> and over that they have no taste and therefore will inflict their lack of
> taste on the user.
>
> this sort of decision making is killing kde on the desktop. think "first
> impressions" and guess what people will think when they look at what you
> just sent us. ugh!
>
> and before you say "oh, but people like simple and plain" i say "bullshit,
> go look at how everyone wants a mac".
>
> some day i wonder why we even bother trying to make things look good
> upstream.

In this case i know and its couse the marketing team in mandriva wants gnome 
and kde desktop to look alike, so yeah 
ggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg. makes me wonder wtf do we work 
for.... 
fortunatly every one i know the frist thing they do with the kde desktop in 
mandriva is to change to kde defoults,
Helio galaxy theme looks a bit old.