Version: 0.18 (using KDE KDE 3.4.2) Installed from: Gentoo Packages Compiler: GCC 3.4.4 OS: Linux Konversation currently defaults to using the basic black-on-white color scheme, regardless of the KDE colors I have set. It'd be nice if there was a checkbox to use the KDE colors for Background, Alternate Background, Hyperlink, and normal chat messages (and gray out the respective options while selected). The other colors would still need to be changeable since they may not work well on any given color scheme.
Addendum: We've been in talks with KDE Accessibility earlier this year about the necessity of applications respecting the global KDE color settings. A possible solution we arrived at is adding color scheme support and including a special "KDE Defaults" scheme that is selected by default. We're working with KDE Accessibility to track our needs on this.
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Confirming this bug's still in need of fixing.
Created attachment 48306 [details] Font and Color Settings in KDE: Suggestions for kdelibs Attached is the PDF that ultimately resulted out of that collaboration with KDE Accessibility back then. About 50% of its contents were actually realized in KDE 4 so far; in particular, extended color schemes and improved APIs to work with them. The standardized color scheme handling widgets for applications however did not, unfortunately.
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Is there any likelihood of Konversation getting color scheme support (not setting each color individually from scratch each time the user wants to test a new scheme) within, say, the next year? I really like the client otherwise, but after 11 years of waiting for this . . . unless this is actually gonna happen I need to investigate replacements; so I just want to know if this feature can be realistically expected.
Manpower is limited and it's not an urgent thing, so it would depend on someone coming along who makes it their mission, which is unpredictable.
So I've begrudgingly moved on to Hexchat, but I hope one day Konversation gets developer love again. As for this issue, I think simply splitting out the color config into its own file would go a tremendous way toward enabling users to take control of the readability/accessibility/desktop-consistency in the meantime.
It would be *very* nice if it inherited the system color scheme as much as possible, or if there were at least two variants, a light and dark option.