Bug 216599

Summary:	Text color for "Active/New" view items too bright (pink on white)
Product:	[Plasma] Oxygen	Reporter:	Christoph Feck <cfeck>
Component:	general	Assignee:	pinheiro <nuno>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	de.meyer.maarten, hugo.pereira.da.costa
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Unspecified
Latest Commit:	http://commits.kde.org/kde-workspace/0ec5ed1f6f9b782ca9fe3fbdafc7dc9177c0759e	Version Fixed In:	4.9.2
Sentry Crash Report:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	303974
Attachments:	Default Oxygen "Window" colors

Description Christoph Feck 2009-11-29 03:45:51 UTC

Version:            (using Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources

It may be a relict of the old 16 color VGA palette used by early web browsers. I am talking about the pink text color used for active/new links.

The color is too bright against the default white View color, making it unsuitable for user's attention about new items. I'd suggest to make it darker, or use a different shade of color.

Comment 1 Hugo Pereira Da Costa 2009-12-05 20:48:11 UTC

Re-assigned to Nuno: can you pick a cool color for the above ? (I know you hate kcm).

Comment 2 pinheiro 2012-01-17 01:31:02 UTC

is this bug still valid?

Comment 3 Maarten De Meyer 2012-06-16 16:48:48 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> is this bug still valid?

Yes.
In the colors kcm on the colors tab you can see the default value for 'Active text' is bright pink. (#FF80E0)

Comment 4 Christoph Feck 2012-07-24 15:51:19 UTC

Created attachment 72726 [details]
Default Oxygen "Window" colors

It is even worse with "Active" against "Window" in default Oxygen palette. In fact, it is unreadable, see bug 303974.

Comment 5 Aurelien Gateau 2012-08-31 14:10:07 UTC

Git commit 0ec5ed1f6f9b782ca9fe3fbdafc7dc9177c0759e by Aurélien Gâteau.
Committed on 31/08/2012 at 16:07.
Pushed by gateau into branch 'KDE/4.9'.

Improve contrast of Oxygen colors

It mainly improves readability of ActiveText over Window background
Related: bug 303974
CCMAIL: nuno@oxygen-icons.org
FIXED-IN: 4.9.2

M  +7    -7    kcontrol/colors/schemes/Oxygen.colors

http://commits.kde.org/kde-workspace/0ec5ed1f6f9b782ca9fe3fbdafc7dc9177c0759e

Comment 6 Christoph Feck 2012-09-25 22:30:00 UTC

Git commit 772c9efa4606c815bea5059168234167ab9a2044 by Christoph Feck.
Committed on 26/09/2012 at 00:26.
Pushed by cfeck into branch 'KDE/4.9'.

Keep color changes in sync with kde-workspace
Related: bug 303974

M  +7    -7    kdeui/colors/kcolorscheme.cpp

http://commits.kde.org/kdelibs/772c9efa4606c815bea5059168234167ab9a2044