Bug 454034

Summary:	"Allow Color Filters" feature is poorly named, surprising and unintuitive
Product:	[Applications] konsole	Reporter:	Hector Martin <marcan>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Konsole Developer <konsole-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	dhya, nate, sam
Priority:	NOR
Version:	21.12.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:	https://invent.kde.org/utilities/konsole/commit/b621d0c0e526e15734c0a08f13ae194f58925a01	Version Fixed In:
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Description Hector Martin 2022-05-19 07:04:16 UTC

SUMMARY
I've been wondering for months why I sometimes got random colored squares, usually near my Plasma taskbar, that would disappear as soon as I moved the mouse.

I just found out it's a Konsole feature today.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Use Konsole with defaults
2. Notice random colored squares appear with no rhyme nor reason
3. Be confused for months
4. Eventually put two and two together and realize it's previewing color names on hover.
5. Spend 15 minutes looking for the option to turn it off

OBSERVED RESULT
Frustration

EXPECTED RESULT
It should take 2 seconds to understand the feature (and that it is one) and less than a minute to figure out how to turn it off.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
May I suggest:
- Adding a caption/title to the tooltip, something like "Color preview", to make it clear it's intentional and not, say, a broken window thumbnail, which is what it looked like to me at first
- Renaming the setting to something like "Show color preview tooltips" "Preview color names on hover". I had to literally hover over every setting and read the explanations to find it. I have no idea what a "color filter" is or why I would or wouldn't "allow" it.

Comment 1 Bug Janitor Service 2022-05-19 12:00:06 UTC

A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/utilities/konsole/-/merge_requests/656

Comment 2 tcanabrava 2022-05-23 11:17:02 UTC

Git commit b621d0c0e526e15734c0a08f13ae194f58925a01 by Tomaz  Canabrava, on behalf of Nicolas Fella.
Committed on 23/05/2022 at 11:03.
Pushed by tcanabrava into branch 'master'.

Improve settings name for color preview

The current name is not descriptive at all

The setting is still buried rather deep, but at least it has a somewhat better name now

M  +1    -1    src/widgets/EditProfileMousePage.ui

https://invent.kde.org/utilities/konsole/commit/b621d0c0e526e15734c0a08f13ae194f58925a01

Comment 3 Hector Martin 2022-05-23 17:17:56 UTC

Keep in mind that the confusing setting name was only the last 15 minutes spent on the issue. I spent months wondering what the colored squares were about in the first place. It would be helpful to also add a caption to the previews, as I mentioned.

Comment 4 Nate Graham 2022-05-23 17:18:46 UTC

Good idea. Could you file another bug report about that? Thanks!

Comment 5 Dhya 2023-01-22 06:46:28 UTC

This "feature" is for a very niche usage case at best.  Enabling it by default for all users is a bad idea.  I also spent weeks thinking there was some type of rendering bug occurring until I finally found an obscure post about this "feature".  Please consider disabling it by default or, even better, removing it since its presence in konsole, based on its extreme niche usage case, isn't really justified.