Bug 532555

Summary: new Qt4 YaST2 layout colour scheme is unusable
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.2 Reporter: Graham Anderson <graham.anderson>
Component: YaST2Assignee: Katarina Machalkova <kmachalkova>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None CC: binner, bitdealer
Version: Factory   
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Hardware: i586   
OS: openSUSE 11.1   
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Attachments: Qt4 YaST2 layout colours

Description Graham Anderson 2009-08-19 17:51:46 UTC
Created attachment 314051 [details]
Qt4 YaST2 layout colours

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The default colours in the new Qt4 YaST2 layout are unusable from a usability point of view. Please see the attached screen-shot.

The "midnight blue" colour that signifies the selected option is too dark, this almost hides the black text used for the option names. In addition, the lavender/purple colour used to highlight items which are moused over is too close to the grey text that appears when you mouse over the item.

The effect of using these colours is that the user is unsure of which option he/she has actually chosen because it's too difficult to read the selected option title. In addition, for a new user of YaST I would think it would be slower to choose the desired option because the description text is hard to read.

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1 Katarina Machalkova 2009-08-20 08:53:34 UTC
Yes, default system-wide colour theme is YaST-unfriendly :) Known issue. Workaround: use different KDE theme (with brighter text highlight colour)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 531528 ***