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[Zoltán Balogh <zoltan.balogh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

the next release of the UITK will bring new palettes and new colour 
definitions.

That is the good part of the news.

The issue is that many applications and even the shell indicators do use 
the actual palettes in a sightly wrong way. It means that  in many 
places the  palette is  used like this

----------
Icon {
  id: statusIcon
  color: theme.palette.selected.backgroundText
  Layout.preferredHeight: parent.height
  Layout.preferredWidth: Layout.preferredHeight
  visible: name !== ""
}
----------

Which is fine as long the desired colour matches with the colour the 
palette provides. The problem starts when design changes and the nicely 
selected "colour" for a component turns to be something else.

Like the indicator icons -> 
http://picpaste.com/pics/indicator-FMruC8JY.1456498678.png

So, what to do?

If your app is using palette colours for something else what their name 
suggest to be used for, then please add the silo50 to your device and 
see how your app looks.

Feel free to reach out for help. Anybody from the SDK or Design team is 
going to be available to  help.

In the following days we will write up a blog post about the new colours 
and paletts, so stay tuned :)

cheers,

bzoltan