Hi Alex,
On Thu, 2011-07-14 at 22:34 +0100, Alex B wrote:
> I'd realy love to see a darker application background in Writer. As you know,
> the appearance of LibreOffice depends on the used GTK Theme. Because most GTK
> Themes are light and bright, the contrast between the application background
> and the document is to low (especially on monitors with low contrast) [1].
So - there are several things we could do here, to try to improve
things here; first - I got annoyed with the UI showing a white color as
the 'auto' color, so I updated the widget to show the (actual) Automatic
color in the combo preview - that improves the look.
It seems this is the svtools/source/config/colorcfg's APPBACKGROUND
setting, which we fetch from:
Application::GetSettings().GetStyleSettings().GetWorkspaceColor();
Which we set from: vcl/unx/gtk/gdi/salnativewidgets-gtk.cxx like this:
// background colors
Color aBackColor = getColor( pStyle->bg[GTK_STATE_NORMAL] );
Color aBackFieldColor = getColor( pStyle->base[ GTK_STATE_NORMAL ] );
aStyleSet.Set3DColors( aBackColor );
aStyleSet.SetFaceColor( aBackColor );
aStyleSet.SetDialogColor( aBackColor );
aStyleSet.SetWorkspaceColor( aBackColor );
aStyleSet.SetFieldColor( aBackFieldColor );
aStyleSet.SetWindowColor( aBackFieldColor );
aStyleSet.SetCheckedColorSpecialCase( );
I would certainly be up for tweaking some of those colors to darken
them; we prolly want to assign 'SetWorkspaceColor' to a temporary and
do:
if (col.IsDark())
col.IncreaseLuminance(20);
else
col.DecreaseLuminance(20);
Or something equivalent; of course, these kind of tweaks are really not
-that- wonderful ;-) and it's probable that we'd want to allow
overriding with:
// hyperlink colors
GdkColor *link_color = NULL;
gtk_widget_style_get (m_pWindow, "app-workspace-color",
&link_color, NULL);
if (link_color)
...
Or somesuch so the situation could be rescued by themes that do odd
things with contrast. It'd be a nice easy hack I guess if someone wants
to file the bug and/or add it to the easy-hack page and/or post a tested
patch to the dev list. :-)
HTH,
Michael.
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