Re: [Usability] Alternatives to hardcoded colors

[Jeff <web kiddo free fr>]

Interesting. I did not notice that Tasks was theme-dependent, because in pretty much all situations the "low priority text" stayed gray (I tried playing with all the colors I could imagine just now, even a bright pink clearlooks!).

Maybe we have the same DPI and working environment. I sometimes work in low light with the thinkpad brightness at minimum, and then the low-priority tasks are hard to discern.

>     The colour of the tasks in the main task view can be configured via the theme
>     based on the priority of the task.  The defaults are to use the normal text
>     colour for high and normal priority tasks, and the insensitive text colour for
>     the done and low priority tasks.  If these colours are not suitable, add
>     something like this to your ~/.gtkrc-2.0:
>     
>     style "koto-task-view"
>     {
>             color["priority-high"] = "red"
>             color["priority-normal"] = "blue"
>             color["priority-low"] = "green""
>             color["priority-done"] = "orange"
>     }
>     class "KotoTaskView" style "koto-task-view"
I tried your suggestion, it does not seem to work on gnome 2.22.

The thing is, the grayish colors I currently have for low priority tasks are readable, just not easily readable for me. I wonder if a feature in the Tasks gui for setting custom colors that override the theme would be an acceptable idea?