Bug 489573 - NavigationTabBar button text has poor legibility
Summary: NavigationTabBar button text has poor legibility
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: frameworks-kirigami
Classification: Frameworks and Libraries
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 6.3.0
Platform: Manjaro Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: Not decided
Assignee: kdelibs bugs
URL:
Keywords: accessibility, usability
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2024-07-01 22:09 UTC by medin
Modified: 2024-07-03 17:23 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Latest Commit:
Version Fixed In: 6.4
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Tab's title is too small (148.86 KB, image/png)
2024-07-01 22:09 UTC, medin
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Description medin 2024-07-01 22:09:55 UTC
Created attachment 171256 [details]
Tab's title is too small

The titles in the new style of tabs in Keyboard and Power Management, are written using a small font, which make them look like small notes lacking attention compared to the big icons placed above them.

The icons are not always more expressive than text content, especially on Keyboard page where we can see that icons aren't all well-chosen: "keyboard" icon refers to hardware, "bubble message" icon refers to layouts and "settings" icon refers to Key Bindings.

In reality, it's impossible to find the perfect icons of all available actions on any platform, so it would be much better to increase font size of tabs' title to fill the lack to express the exact meaning, and makes it easier for user to read it and differentiate between different tabs.
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2024-07-02 18:21:46 UTC
Yeah this is bad.
Comment 2 Bug Janitor Service 2024-07-02 18:31:44 UTC
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kirigami/-/merge_requests/1579
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2024-07-03 17:23:08 UTC
Git commit 65cb8dd282d18862f4808125ec0acc66b0bf6261 by Nate Graham.
Committed on 03/07/2024 at 13:54.
Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'.

NavigationTabButton: improve text legibility

Text is currently not very legible due to the use of small-font 85%
opaque type. This is especially noticeable with a low resolution screen.

To fix this, use the more conventional styling of a normal font size and
100% opacity.
FIXED-IN: 6.4

M  +5    -12   src/controls/NavigationTabButton.qml

https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kirigami/-/commit/65cb8dd282d18862f4808125ec0acc66b0bf6261