Contrast plasma::theme color issues

[Alexis Ménard]

Completely agree on that...Same for OpenSuse 11.1 they ship Aya by default,
first thing i do (when it's not my own build), get rid of the ugly default.

Please listen users (and sometime just ask them what they want or what are
their habits)
They want NEW stuff not a KDE3-like theme.

What i still don't understand is that the default of plasma is oxygen theme,
why changing it? Why shipping oxygen windec by default so? Why not using
plastique in that case?

And i have to say that Aaron is right, the first impression you have is not
really impressive in that case.

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 9:27 PM, nuno pinheiro <nuno at oxygen-icons.org> wrote:

> 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<http://users.mandriva.com.br/%7Eheliocastro/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.
>
>
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