Bug 70065 - Text on a tab that's busy loading is hard to see (regression)
Summary: Text on a tab that's busy loading is hard to see (regression)
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: konqueror
Classification: Applications
Component: tabbing (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: unspecified Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Konqueror Developers
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Keywords:
: 73501 73723 96597 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2003-12-10 22:34 UTC by Derick Swanepoel
Modified: 2005-04-04 20:00 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description Derick Swanepoel 2003-12-10 22:34:42 UTC
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.1.94)
Compiler:          gcc (GCC) 3.3.2 20031022 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.2-r3, propolice) 
OS:          Linux

I've noticed that the color of the text on a tab that's busy loading uses the current style's "Inactive Title Text". If this color is white or light gray it makes the text on the tab very hard to read because it's too similar to the gray of the tab. Previously a fixed color was used (I think?)
Comment 1 Amit Shah 2003-12-11 05:34:01 UTC
And this is true with the default plastik theme colors. It was fine in beta1. In beta2, they're unreadable.

Also, in some cases, I've noticed that a tab that's "visited" or "seen" and its contents haven't been changed (no auto-refresh, no javascript refresh), the tab text goes to the "loading" colors... ie, hardly viewable. This could be related, could be a separate bug. No idea.
Comment 2 Stephan Binner 2003-12-11 21:47:25 UTC
Previously it was the inactive window title background IIRC. Now what makes more sense? :-) And previously there were also color schemes where it didn't work well.
Comment 3 Derick Swanepoel 2003-12-13 15:13:09 UTC
I was thinking, perhaps fixed colors could be used for the "busy loading" and "completed" text, if that's not against some standard. If that's not an option then maybe those colors should be configurable in Konqueror, or specified in the color schemes. I mean, at least half of the color schemes use white for the inactive window title text (including KDE's default scheme) so unless your scheme's inactive window title text and button background differ enough you'll have this problem...
Comment 4 Stephan Binner 2004-01-29 17:25:13 UTC
*** Bug 73723 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Marc Schiffbauer 2004-01-29 19:58:07 UTC
fixed is not good idea I think. People tend to have very different colors and if fixed colors would be used there would always be someone who finds the color unreadable

I prefer this idea: 

configurable in konquis tabbed browsing dialog with these options:
 ( ) - color theme: use (some fitting) color theme colors
 ( ) - custom: use custom color (choose button)
 ( ) - off: always use same color (which then is that text color which
       comes from the color theme i think: black) for all states

and this for all three state colors.

comments?
Comment 6 Stephan Binner 2004-01-30 12:02:45 UTC
*** Bug 73501 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Mathias Homann 2004-02-04 12:44:07 UTC
I second marcs suggestion.
Comment 8 S. Burmeister 2004-11-18 08:31:44 UTC
Why does one have to add even more settings? Could one not simply choose automatically a colour that is relative to the background colour, i.e. change its, or the saturation for example.
Comment 9 Derick Swanepoel 2004-11-18 08:42:03 UTC
I agree with S. Burmeister, more settings should be avoided. Choosing a colour relative to the background sounds like a good idea. I don't think there is any way to guarantee that a specific colour from a colour scheme will be readable on the tab, except for the normal foreground colour (usually black).
Comment 10 S. Burmeister 2004-11-18 09:00:39 UTC
One thing I forgot, this bug is almost one year old and yet not fixed, so one should vote for it in order to mark it as new, as it seems that developers do not regard this as important enough to mark it as new themselves. I think 60 or 80 votes trigger the "new by popular vote" mechanism.
Comment 11 Hugo Rodrigues 2005-02-27 17:34:44 UTC
Thi still happens in KDE 3.4.0-rc1. I consider this one of the most anoying things in Konqueror's tabbing ability. Please have it fixed somehow, and preferably before 3.4.0 gets out. Thanx in advance.
Comment 12 Derick Swanepoel 2005-02-28 07:29:03 UTC
I fear that it is too late for this to get fixed for 3.4.0, which is very sad since it's been present since before KDE 3.2. Also, this is a problem with KDE's *default* colour scheme. If I had the time I would gladly figure out a fix myself. 
Comment 13 Stephan Binner 2005-03-31 10:38:10 UTC
*** Bug 96597 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 14 Robby Stephenson 2005-03-31 17:22:18 UTC
*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***
Comment 15 Stephan Binner 2005-04-04 20:00:38 UTC
*** Bug has been marked as fixed ***.