[Breeze] [Bug 349072] New: Tickbox is confusing when highlighted

[Jonathan Wakely]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=349072

            Bug ID: 349072
           Summary: Tickbox is confusing when highlighted
           Product: Breeze
           Version: 5.3.1
          Platform: Fedora RPMs
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: plasma-devel at kde.org
          Reporter: zilla at kayari.org

The Breeze tickbox is totally confusing when it gets highlighted.

See the attached screenshot. Everyone I've asked thinks the first tickbox is
unticked, but it's actually ticked, but the colours are inverted because that
row is highlighted.

This is really, really bad design. Whether the tickbox is ticked should be
shown by more than a solid block of colour (which can be inverted!) and the
thickness of a border.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Look at a list of tickboxes that are all ticked and one row is highlighted.
2. Keep looking.
3. Get confused.

Actual Results:  
Confusion.

Click on the checkbox to toggle it a few times, highlight another row, see how
the state changes with mouse clicks and when compared to other tickboxes.

Expected Results:  
The state of the tickbox should be instantly obvious from a quick glance. 

if you have to look at it for more than a few hundred milliseconds it's badly
designed. If you have to toggle it and compare it to other tickboxes it's
totally broken. You should not have to change state to determine the current
state.

What if someone used Qt + Breeze for a dialog without an "Apply" button, so
unticking the box in order to figure out its current state caused instant
feedback, say disabling a firewall, or turning off someone's life support
machine ;-)

I would almost go as far as to say this theme is unusable with these tickboxes.
All the other widgets are fine, and the tickbox is acceptable when not
highlighted, but as soon as you encounter this problem it fails to meet its
purpose (conveying the most basic information about the state of the tickbox!) 

Either highlighting the widget should not invert the tickbox colours, or the
tickbox should be much MUCH more obvious than a solid block of colour in a
regular polygon.

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