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[Vadim Peretokin <vperetokin@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sounds like we should convert our palette use to stylesheets, then
stylesheets would be able to override what we set.

A feature to look into if anyone actually gets interested in theming Mudlet.

On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 5:11 PM Stephen Lyons <slysven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Is that everywhere with text or just some places?  If it is the latter I
> would suspect that we are using pallet effects for them (which I feel
> sure I saw being manipulated in some of the dialogues at least) - the Qt
> Documentation is quite specific about NOT mixing palette and style-
> sheets, e.g. the current version (5.8) has this to say about the
> (QPalette)QWidget::pallete member and it's setter,
> (void)QWidget::setPalette(const QPalette &) method:
>
> 'When you assign a new palette to a widget, the color roles from this
> palette are combined with the widget's default palette to form the
> widget's final palette. The palette entry for the widget's background
> role is used to fill the widget's background (see
> QWidget::autoFillBackground), and the foreground role initializes
> QPainter's pen.
>
> 'The default depends on the system environment. QApplication maintains a
> system/theme palette which serves as a default for all widgets. There
> may also be special palette defaults for certain types of widgets (e.g.,
> on Windows XP and Vista, all classes that derive from QMenuBar have a
> special default palette). You can also define default palettes for
> widgets yourself by passing a custom palette and the name of a widget to
> QApplication::setPalette(). Finally, the style always has the option of
> polishing the palette as it's assigned (see QStyle::polish()).
>
> 'QWidget propagates explicit palette roles from parent to child. If you
> assign a brush or color to a specific role on a palette and assign that
> palette to a widget, that role will propagate to all the widget's
> children, overriding any system defaults for that role. Note that
> palettes by default don't propagate to windows (see isWindow()) unless
> the Qt::WA_WindowPropagation attribute is enabled.
>
> 'QWidget's palette propagation is similar to its font propagation.
>
> 'The current style, which is used to render the content of all standard
> Qt widgets, is free to choose colors and brushes from the widget
> palette, or in some cases, to ignore the palette (partially, or
> completely). In particular, certain styles like GTK style, Mac style,
> Windows XP, and Vista style, depend on third party APIs to render the
> content of widgets, and these styles typically do not follow the
> palette. Because of this, assigning roles to a widget's palette is not
> guaranteed to change the appearance of the widget. Instead, you may
> choose to apply a styleSheet. You can refer to our Knowledge Base
> article here for more information.
>
> 'Warning: Do not use this function in conjunction with Qt Style Sheets.
> When using style sheets, the palette of a widget can be customized using
> the "color", "background-color", "selection-color", "selection-
> background-color" and "alternate-background-color".'
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1670576
>
> Title:
>   Allow setAppStyleSheet to overwrite Mudlet-specified colours
>
> Status in Mudlet:
>   Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
>   Whatever we're doing to set the colour of text isn't working with
>   setAppStyleSheet, or someone just needs to figure out the right CSS
>   style for the dialog we show (since you don't want to change the text
>   of the colour everywhere). See https://imgur.com/a/LSWGP for examples
>   and http://forums.mudlet.org/download/file.php?id=1418 for the dark
>   theme.
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