> On Aug. 16, 2013, 8:58 p.m., Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > To be honest i'm a bit confused by all the different patches trying to fix 
> > the same thing, there's this one, the other one that tries to use 
> > kcolorscheme, the other one that tries to let the user choose.
> > 
> > And what I don't understand is why we need these patches. I would 
> > understand that if an epub sets the background color it will also set the 
> > text color (so all is fine, none of "our" colors is used) and if no color 
> > is set, i would undertand that the color scheme by the user provides 
> > acceptable colors.
> > 
> > So where is the problem?
> 
> Christoph Feck wrote:
>     The problem is not documents that set colors, but those that set no 
> colors (for example, plain text files).
>     
>     In the rendering code, the pixmap is pre-filled with hard-coded white 
> color, but the text is actually rendered using the system's foreground color. 
> This leads to "white on white" with dark color schemes (which usually use 
> white text).
>     
>     There are, as you see, several ways to fix it. Why I believe this one 
> makes more sense that using the system's background color: See my rationale 
> at "Description" above.
> 
> Albert Astals Cid wrote:
>     Ok, can you try Jaydeep's branch epub-qtextdoc according to 
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/mgf778ug6yjie2l/GSoC%20patches.odt the color issues 
> are fixed there. Can you confirm? Is the solution acceptable for you?
> 
> Christoph Feck wrote:
>     From quickly checking commit 1823cf9998555e22c6f3d8701728882dc34b244b 
> (which is documented to fix the color issue), I see that Jaydeep injects CSS 
> code to change QTextDocument's default color to Qt::black. While this might 
> have the same result, my approach is simpler and uses less resources.
>     
>     Additionally, it looks like his patch is limited to epub, while my patch 
> works for all generators that use textdocumentgenerator.cpp?
>     
>     Jaydeep might clarify, if I am wrong.

(Let me add that I wasn't aware about his work while I wrote the patch. I have 
no intention to disturb his work.)


- Christoph


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> (Updated Aug. 16, 2013, 8:58 p.m.)
> 
> 
> Review request for Okular.
> 
> 
> Description
> -------
> 
> As indicated in bug 322547, some documents do not specify a text color, and 
> probably assume the default text color to be black. QTextDocument, however, 
> defaults to using the system text color.
> 
> This patch changes the default text color to Qt::black. It should affect 
> epub, fb2, odt, and plain text generators.
> 
> I think it is better to use this approach instead of changing the paper color 
> to use the system background color (see bug 253583), because
> 
> 1) the document might specify a text color in some places,
> 
> 2) the user is able to change the fg/bg colors anyway using Okular's 
> Accessibility options, and those probably expect black on white.
> 
> 
> This addresses bugs 253583 and 322547.
>     http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=253583
>     http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=322547
> 
> 
> Diffs
> -----
> 
>   core/textdocumentgenerator.cpp b260b3f 
> 
> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/111681/diff/
> 
> 
> Testing
> -------
> 
> I tested the document from bug 322547 comment #3.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Christoph Feck
> 
>

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