Re: [g-a-devel]Re: [Usability]Profterm: Theme compliance

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

Pasupathi Duraisamy wrote:
> 
> Calum Benson wrote:
> 
> > Pasupathi Duraisamy wrote:
> > >
> > > I set my theme to BW.  Profterm provides a feature to set the background
> > > and  foreground colors. Hence the profterm settings seem to overrides
> > > the BW themes [for the Zvtwidget.]
> > >
> > > I would like to know if this is the expected/correct behaviour ?
> >
> > Expected yes, correct no  :)  Perhaps the easiest solution for app[let]s
> > that do this sort of thing is to provide "use colours/fonts from the
> > current theme" checkboxes in the preferences dialog, where possible...
> > we can argue about whether this setting should be the default later!
> >
> > Gedit does this, which is just as well because right now it defaults to
> > black text on a black background... Desiato theme, anyone?  :)
> >
> > Cheeri,
> > Calum.
> >
> 
> With respect to Gedit I found that  if we click "use default theme font" it
> takes the hard coded font (inside the source) as default one. Similarly for
> foreground and background colors it takes from the default style of the
> widget.  It doesn't take the values from the rc file.
> I believe this is not the correct way.

Right, and this is actually a very important requirement from an
accessibility
point of view; cf Section 508 of the US Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as
published
Dec 2000:

1194.21 (g): "Applications shall not override user selected contrast and
color selections and other user selected attributes", which is explained
to mean that an application must have at the very least a setting that
causes it to use "system" theme settings rather than its own custom
settings.


> Coming back to profterm there is already an option for the user to set
> different fonts and colors and also the user can maintain different profile
> settings.  So IMHO we don't have to implement the check box option that would
> allow the user to select between the default theme from rc file and the theme
> specified in profterm settings .
> 
> Thanks,
> Pasupathi
> 
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