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Re: EBN
by Luciano on Sunday 20/May/2007, @01:39
Hardcoded colors are not bad if you do not care for accessibility. Otherwise they are a real problem.

Themes like high-contrast do not work as required if you do not use system colors, for example, in the white-on-black mode, hard-coded black text will not be visible.

Then there is the problem with color blindness, where color blind people may want to adjust colors so that, say warning/OK colors are easy to distinguish.
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Re: EBN
by Chani on Sunday 20/May/2007, @06:51
"in the white-on-black mode, hard-coded black text will not be visible."

someone was complaining about exactly this in #kde today. he had a transparent kicker and a black background, iirc, and the text of programs was shown in black when they started up. :)
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