[ALUG] Kopete and that stupid blue highlight!

[Chris Glover]

On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 17:54 +0100, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
> 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)
> 

You know, I'd nver noticed that in Evolution until now! The thing is in
Evolution it's quite subtle so it doesn't bother me!

> 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.
> 

stupid?

> 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.
> 

Interesting thought.

Thanks

Chris :-)

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