Bug 473843 - Text in highlighted area (on mouse hover) takes a little bit of the accent color resulting in a lower contrast
Summary: Text in highlighted area (on mouse hover) takes a little bit of the accent co...
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Networks widget (show other bugs)
Version: master
Platform: Other Linux
: LO minor
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
URL:
Keywords: accessibility, usability
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2023-08-28 10:48 UTC by postix
Modified: 2024-12-23 18:26 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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2023-08-28 10:48 UTC, postix
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Screenshot: Discover (217.97 KB, image/png)
2023-08-30 17:20 UTC, postix
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Description postix 2023-08-28 10:48:12 UTC
Created attachment 161237 [details]
Screenshots

SUMMARY

When you hover the mouse over an item in the network manager, the item's whole background becomes highlighted (blue), unfortunately also the text color changes from white or gray to a more blueish tone. 

Please see the screenshots I have attached: 
In the middle one I have replaced the highlighting color with the Breeze Dark background as if it weren't highlighted.
You can see that the text got a blueish accent color. 

This results in a lower contrast and makes the text and graph harder to read and as a user I tend to move the mouse away. It would be great if the background didn't blend into the graphs or texts so that those keep their original color.


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Fedora Linux 38
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.7
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.109.0
Qt Version: 5.15.10
Theme: Breeze Dark
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2023-08-28 19:44:25 UTC
Right, because we use opacity for the text.

I'm not convinced this is really a problem, or if it is, that it's worth the effort to fix, though. We use lowered opacity for text pretty much everywhere and we would have to commit to doing something different in all those places.

You can always move your pointer elsewhere so the highlight effect disappears, as you mentioned. So there's a fairly simple workaround.
Comment 2 postix 2023-08-30 17:20:47 UTC
Created attachment 161286 [details]
Screenshot: Discover

> I'm not convinced this is really a problem, or if it is, that it's worth the effort to fix, though. 

Perception varies from person to person I guess, and I find it annoying, that's why I opened the report. :)

> We use lowered opacity for text pretty much everywhere and we would have to commit to doing something different in all those places.

Is this also the case for Discover in the screenshot I attached? As there the text on the bright blue background, which is hard to read for me.
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2023-08-30 17:23:06 UTC
In Discover's case I think the text is 100% opacity, and the problem is simply that the blue background itself is too bright. This is being worked on in https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/qqc2-desktop-style/-/merge_requests/270.
Comment 4 postix 2023-08-30 17:25:23 UTC
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #3)
> In Discover's case I think the text is 100% opacity, and the problem is
> simply that the blue background itself is too bright. This is being worked
> on in
> https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/qqc2-desktop-style/-/merge_requests/270.

Thank you for your quick response! :) Are you sure you've linked the right MR though? !270 is about `Rounded item delegate`. Does this cover the background color too?
Comment 5 Nate Graham 2023-08-30 17:26:03 UTC
It does; the title is just a bit misleading right now.
Comment 6 Ben Cooksley 2024-12-23 18:26:05 UTC
Bulk transfer as requested in T17796