[SDK] no way to disable PageHeadState actions highlighting

[Jamie Strandboge]

On applications with a dark theme (eg, Authenticator, Blabble, Utudu) the highlight color of the PageHeadState actions is very noticeable. This is easily seen by simply pressing one of the actions. When using a light theme, the effect is much more subtle. It would be nice to be able to disable the highlight or to set the highlight to a custom color.

Setting as rtm14 with High priority since as an application writer it is very frustrating not being able to adjust this when using dark colors for the theme.

On a possibly related note-- perhaps this is all configurable via Theme, but I've tried several times to figure out to do it. There appears to be no documentation on it (and I've mentioned this at least 3 times to people that we need it).

[Cris Dywan (kalikiana)]

Can you provide an example that shows this?

[Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)]

Here is example qml exhibiting the issue.

[Tim Peeters (tpeeters)]

Are there visual designs for the highlights on a dark background?

[Jouni Helminen (jounihelminen)]

Timp is this something we an add in the dark theme so that all apps that use dark theme don't have to implement it?

In general I agree there should be better documentation on theming so that app developers can override defaults easily.

Timp do you know what's the plan for writing/releasing theming documentation?

[Jouni Helminen (jounihelminen)]

We have a new palette structure which should help. Finished the light theme, dark theme to be done next

[Tim Peeters (tpeeters)]

PageHeadState is now deprecated. Instead, simply set a different PageHeader for the Page.header property. See https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/blog/2016/02/24/pageheader-tutorial/

Also, in UITK 1.3, we have a completely new palette and all the highlight colors should be good now.