Hi David,
just reading this thread, without looking at kasts:
- something is wonky with the colors on desktop. in all listviews it
looks like the delegates are inactive/disabled colors for some reason.
e.g. https://i.imgur.com/xkgigs4.png
Ah, yes, this is intended behaviour.
When you first import a podcast feed (or OPML), it will mark all
episodes up to that point as 'played'. Which will show them with those
inactive/disabled colors. Once the feed's been imported, new episodes
will show up with regular colors until they've been marked as 'played'.
This behaviour will save users having to manually mark all episodes as
marked.
From reading this email, that seems strange to me. From FreeCAD I learned that
it is confusing when controls look disabled, but are not, and actually want to
visualize something else. AFAIK there is a set of “active” colors, maybe the
list items could use these to mark new episodes as “new”? Otherwise, use a
bold or italic font?
Thanks for the input.
Even though this approach is used in other podcast players as well (i.e.
graying out of played episodes), I can see that it might be a confusing
UI pattern. So it might indeed be worth investigating some alternatives.
Maybe adding e.g. "<checkmark-icon> Played" to the delegate will also
make it visually distinct enough, while making the intent clearer.
I will try it out, and run the options by VDG.
E.g. before: https://imgur.com/a/79FB3lh
and after: https://imgur.com/a/cRBzYf3
- I see you are hardcoding a color in GenericHeader.qml, I'm not super
sure that will work correctly across different themes but then I also
don't really see the color actively used :shrug:
There are two hardcoded colours: one is an alpha mask to make the
blurred background picture on the header dark enough to have enough
contrast to be able to read the feed title in white (second hardcoded
colour).
This should work across all possible themes, but I'm open to other, more
elegant solutions.
If you use Qt 5.15, you can use QColorTransform/applyColorTransform() to do
cool stuff with image colors. QPainter also supports various composition
modes, which allow other cool stuff.
Thanks for the pointers. While those transforms don't seem to be
directly applicable to this particular situation, they might come in
handy at a later point in time.
Of course, you should check yourself, how much my suggestions apply to your
project. :)
Cheers, David
Thank you!
Best regards,
Bart
