[SailfishDevel] change Silica theme details

Wim de Vries wsvries at xs4all.nl
Mon Jun 3 13:53:47 UTC 2013


Garret Raziel schreef op 2013-06-03 11:48:
> Hmm, then I suggest not to use Silica theme.

For now, I have the pulldown/pushupmenu in black and white. This config 
gives the best highlight.
I will use my own buttons.
And now the aircraft checklists....



> 
> On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Wim de Vries <wsvries at xs4all.nl> 
> wrote:
> 
>> Thanks all for the replies.
>> First, I sure like the swiping functionality of Silica, especially 
>> the pull down/push up menus, page indicator, etc..
>> Still, my app is used in a cockpit. Many (light) aircrafts and 
>> gliders do have full "glass" canopies (like an F16).
>> This is an extremely bright light environment, so I need contrasting 
>> colors.
>> In the current app (ubuntu), buttons are light green (00FF00) with 
>> black text, strong warnings FF0000, and soft warnings orange.
>> 
>> Current problem:
>> I did push some of my own buttons in the Silica menu items, but
>> - I need more (light/color) contrast in the highlight section of each 
>> menu item (when it is selected);
>> - I am not sure if it allowed (non Silica stuff in Silica elements).
>> 
>> Also, the page indicators (left top: indicating that you are in n-th 
>> of x pages are to 'soft' for my app.
>> Thanks.
>> r
>> wim
>> 
>> On 06/02/2013 11:57 AM, Jonni Rainisto wrote:
>> 
>>> You can ofcourse alse use javascript and read current theme colors 
>>> in there and slice them in r g b values, and make your custom var's 
>>> with changed values. But the question is that can you give an example 
>>> of where the default theme colors are not readable enough, and what 
>>> kind of ambient theme are you using?
>>> 
>>> re, jonni
>>> 
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>>> Subject: Re: [SailfishDevel] change Silica theme details
>>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> You are not forced to use Silica to develop your application. You 
>>> can, for
>>> example, use your custom components (based on QtQuick default 
>>> components, like
>>> Rectangle or Text), to draw some of the UI.
>>> 
>>> For example, you can draw a white background by doing
>>> 
>>> Page {
>>>          Rectangle {
>>>                  anchors.fill: parent
>>>                  color: "white"
>>>          }
>>> }
>>> 
>>> (Note that I did not tried that code, but it should work)
>>> And add some other components, like Text, or other Rectangles on top 
>>> of it.
>>> 
>>> Of cause, it won't integrate with Sailfish, but that's not a 
>>> problem, since
>>> you are not focusing on that, do you ?
>> True.
>> 
>>> Le vendredi 31 mai 2013 17:12:25 Wim de Vries a écrit :
>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> My app will work in very (sun)light circumstances, so I need more
>>>> contrast between colours.
>>>> Is there a way to change (parts of the) the Silica theme?
>>>> Thanks.
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