Uwe Stöhr wrote: > > as an example Uwe wants to kill graphics background color because he > > has no idea what it does, which is just irresponsible. in such case > > you need to associate it with one fixed color, so all my png images > > with alpha channel are going to have fixed background. if it merges > > with the foreground then what? > > Thanks for this info. As this is not yet documented should we add this to > the Customization manual or to sec. C.1.3 "Colors" of the UserGuide?
as you wish. > > moreover if you dont use your own styles its hard to imagine all the > > consequences of some colors settings. e.g. i'm not able to read > > branch-inset 'outdated' in customization manual because - well nobody > > got the idea that you can have black-bg grey-fg theme. > > Hmm, I fear that we cannot avoid this with our current framework. We whould > have to check what the current font and background color is used and then > forbid this color in all color setting dialogs. I assume that this is > impossible since we inherit Qt's color dialog and one cannot prevent that a > user selects a certain color from the color-selector widget. the correct solution would be that branch has defined both bg & fg colors or that we use automatically inverted color for fg in branches. but i showed this only as an example, i dont ask for fixing. > > so please be very careful of the consequences. > > OK. But what should we do now? > > I propose > > - not to use the option "using system colors" by default. Users can > activate it if they like +1 > - remove the caption frame color dunno what is this > - remove math corners (The default is already the default background and is > most probably never changed by users.) personally no problem, dunno about other users > - added space markers, appendix marker and end of line marker can be > removed and we use the current color value for it (the dark reddish one). eoln marker should remain > - new page and page break can be reduced to one color looks good > - top/bottom line should be changed to black because these lines also > appear > black in the output dunno whats this > - contact Stefan and reduce the macro colors i'm almost sure Stefan's gone pavel
