[ALUG] Kopete and that stupid blue highlight!

[Wayne Stallwood]

On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 12:29 +0100, Chris Glover wrote:

> How do I turn off that stupid blue highlight on every alternate contact
> in the contact list. It looks ridiculous. The coloured heads next to the
> name are fine.. but why does every other name have to have a stupuid
> blue background????
> 
Kmail does/did this as well but I am sure in that case there was a way
of turning it off..Evolution also does it with light grey rather than
blue. With Evolution of course you can't turn it off because the Gnome
developers don't want you to (get me drunk and ask me about
tooltips...grrr)

I presumed it was there for the benefit of people who struggle to follow
a row of data across multiple columns. (there is a word for it I can't
think of and it happens to different people at differing row lengths).
It seems a bit unnecessary given the width of your average email or
kopete window, particularly for kopete because there is only one column
of information.

I am guessing that a KDE interface designer borrowed from the old wide
carriage tractorfeed line printer paper (which had green stripes for the
same reason) and then they thought they'd follow the theme into other
"K" apps (for consistency) where it becomes unnecessary.