Removing the Breeze High Contrast color scheme

Nate Graham <[email protected]> Fri, 17 Sep 2021 16:39:37 -0600
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Hello accessibility folks,

I'd like to propose removing the Breeze High Contrast color scheme. This 
color scheme is a misnomer, and does not actually offer higher contrast 
than other color schemes. In fact its contrast is generally worse than 
Breeze dark, the color scheme it is most similar to As a result it hurts 
more than it helps.

A true "high contrast mode" would require changes to the QStyle to make 
UI elements larger or change their borders to actually offer an 
improvement for people who need higher contrast than what is offered by 
Breeze and Breeze Dark.

users will be migrated to the regular Breeze Dark color scheme, which is 
the closest to it.

See the relevant merge request: 
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/breeze/-/merge_requests/141

Nate