Link colour in About box is 'invisible' for me

• Aug 11, 2013 - 15:01

Um, sorry to be a pest, but the very light blue colour in the About box links is nearly invisible for me.

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Does anyone else find this colour extremely hard to see? I'm sure I can't be the only MuseScore user with less-than-perfect eyesight!

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I suspect this to be a non-complete configuration of the recently re-introduced light theme: the link colour is easy to read on the dark background of the dark theme, but difficult to see in the light theme (I believe for everybody, not only for 'visually-impaired' persons).

Just for the record, I have switched to the light theme as soon as it has been added back, as I find the dark theme hard to see (in particular icons remain too 'murky').

I agree that the "About" box is not among the most frequently used parts of the programme but, as a way to invite users to visit the main site and to donate, it might be wise to make it as inviting and easy to read as possible.

Thanks,

M.

In reply to by Miwarre

Yes, that was my thinking on the About box too!

I don't know whether there is a way for users to define a 'skin' for Qt5 applications, or whether the themes have to be part of the application and thus can only be created by the MuseScore developers, but it seems that both of us would prefer some kind of 'OS native look' theme to the Light and Dark ones currently available.

What I'm meaning is that Qt5 passes on the task of instantiating and drawing screen objects to the native OS, whilst the Qt5 application (MuseScore) retains event-driven control of handling those objects and reacting to clicks etc. I cheerfully admit I have no idea whether that's even possible in Qt5, nor whether the result would look like a complete mess, but it would mean users like Miwarre and I would then have a MuseScore which looks and feels like the other applications we use on our computers.

I know many computer users who, like myself, have set up very specific colour schemes, fonts, etc. for system components (like window titles, menus, selected items, etc.) to compensate for their individual eyesight issues. It may be dull and boring, folks, but application-specific GUIs which don't inherit the OS GUI setup are often sub-optimal to use, and in the worst cases they can be almost totally unusable. We may be a minority of users, maybe even a very small minority, but it really would help us to have a 'look like the OS settings say you should look' theme as an option, if that's possible.

PS: If there IS some kind of 'skin designer' for MuseScore and/or Qt5, I would be happy to try creating a 'neutral' theme for those of use with vision impairments. If you're reading this and know of such a thing, please reply here!

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