Re: kate folding marker patch
Christoph Cullmann <[email protected]>
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On Thursday 08 January 2009 03:20:12 Matthew Woehlke wrote: > (Let's try a wider audience. I don't know where the other kate devs are, > if they just missed the original thread or what... a11y people, I'd also > appreciate any comments/concerns on the proposed method of making colors.) Guess away :) > > I'm sitting on a patch for https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173695. > I was intending to check it in this week, and Dirk just went and > branched on me :-). Well, the good news is I can start working on a > better fix now ;-). > > Anyway... there is no way at this point to fix this properly in 4.2 > (needs UI, and hence string, changes). The a11y implications of the > current behavior are not so fun. (I guess what it currently does - i.e. > completely ignore kate's colors and use the system scheme - is okay, but > responsible for the bug in the first place.) > > What I'd like to do is make the original background color "correct". > However this has the potential to do Horrible Things depending on how > the color scheme is configured, so my inclination is to drop the rainbow > effect for now and use a straight-up blend from the base background in > the direction of the foreground color. This is what I'd check into 4.2, > if anything. The alternative is to leave it broken in 4.2. > > For 4.3 I intend to take a very large axe to the current config dialog > and add proper configurability for this, at which point the default will > be similar to the current code, but configurable. > > There is a patch at [1] that may or may not still apply cleanly (one > hunk, for a different but related bug, is already committed). It's less > eye-candy, but otherwise seems about equally useful (at least to me), > and avoids the potential a11y pitfalls. I can live with that patch, as long as a11y is happy with it, it is ok for me. cu Christoph -- -------------------------------------- Christoph Cullmann --------- AbsInt Angewandte Informatik GmbH Email: [email protected] Science Park 1 Tel: +49-681-38360-22 66123 Saarbrücken Fax: +49-681-38360-20 GERMANY WWW: http://www.AbsInt.com -------------------------------------------------------------------- Geschäftsführung: Dr.-Ing. Christian Ferdinand Eingetragen im Handelsregister des Amtsgerichts Saarbrücken, HRB 11234