[bt-devel] Color issues

Raoul Snyman raoul.snyman at saturnlaboratories.co.za
Mon Aug 17 22:05:01 MST 2009


On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:24:29 +0300, Jaak Ristioja wrote:
> I just found a class of possible problems with colors in BibleTime. As
> such, I just fixed the most obvious bug with all templates. I'll
> probably get fix them in the near future, but here's a short description
> of one possible scenario demonstrating the problem:
> 
> 1) Operating system sets widget colors: dark background, bright text
> 2) BibleTime sets widget text color to black
> 3) Result: black text on dark background, possibly appearing invisible
> 
> Please strongly consider this, especially when hard-coding color values.

This is the EXACT problem I have. I use a dark scheme, and you'd be
surprised at how many people don't think to change the background colour
when they set the foreground colour (you know how many web sites have this
problem?!).

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