Bug 399577 - Unusable contrast in Plasmoids, do not follow Plasma's own colorschemes
Summary: Unusable contrast in Plasmoids, do not follow Plasma's own colorschemes
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 5.13.5
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: David Edmundson
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Reported: 2018-10-09 20:09 UTC by sombragris
Modified: 2021-05-19 11:01 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Attachments
screenshot showing the bug in Device Notifier plasmoid (8.13 KB, image/png)
2018-10-09 20:09 UTC, sombragris
Details
screenshot showing the bug in KRunner (9.56 KB, image/png)
2018-10-09 20:10 UTC, sombragris
Details
screenshot showing good contrast in a regular Plasma 5 application (5.19 KB, image/png)
2018-10-09 20:12 UTC, sombragris
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Description sombragris 2018-10-09 20:09:33 UTC
Created attachment 115526 [details]
screenshot showing the bug in Device Notifier plasmoid

SUMMARY
Plasmoids are not colorschema aware. With some colorspaces, this leads to extremely poor contrast which in many cases render the plasmoid functionality unusable.


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Adopt a colorschema as this: https://store.kde.org/p/1265969/ and a desktop theme such as this: https://store.kde.org/p/1252412/
2. Try using a plasmoid or KRunner (for example make a quick calculation).
3. 

OBSERVED RESULT
Using the colorschema noted above, the selector color is dark blue and the text color is black, creating an extremely poor contrast.

EXPECTED RESULT
The text color should change to that of a selected text, just as menu items of Plasma applications.


SOFTWARE VERSIONS
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.13.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.50.0
Qt Version: 5.11.1

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Attached screenshots showing the bug in Device Notifier plasmoid and in KRunner.
Also attached: a screenshot of a regular Plasma 5 application showing the expected/desired behavior.
Comment 1 sombragris 2018-10-09 20:10:49 UTC
Created attachment 115527 [details]
screenshot showing the bug in KRunner

Note how the selected search result is unusable due to lack of contrast.
Comment 2 sombragris 2018-10-09 20:12:20 UTC
Created attachment 115528 [details]
screenshot showing good contrast in a regular Plasma 5 application

screenshot of a KDE Plasma 5 regular application (Kile), showing a selected menu item. The selected menu item changes the selected text color to show appropriate contrast.
Comment 3 Patrick Silva 2018-10-17 14:01:03 UTC
Reproducible on my system.

Operating System: Arch Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 5.14.1
Qt Version: 5.12.0 beta2
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.51.0
Comment 4 Nate Graham 2021-03-10 03:51:14 UTC
These bugs have all been fixed now.
Comment 5 Patrick Silva 2021-05-19 11:01:32 UTC
it's still reproducible with provided steps on neon unstable.

Operating System: KDE neon Unstable Edition
KDE Plasma Version: 5.22.80
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.83.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Graphics Platform: Wayland