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It has been reported to us by our users that large number of overlay icons makes it difficult to distinguish between various kinds of object icons covered by overlays. On the other hand, they don't want to turn decorators off because often overlays convey important information in an easy-to-see way. I would like to propose the following enhancement with regards to how all overlays are handled. Would it be possible to add an alpha (transparency) setting to decorators? When the item being decorated is in "non-active" state (has not focus, not selected, mouse not hovering over it, etc) the overlays are displayed using opacity of 50% (or some other, configurable, value) which will make the main icon visible through the overlay. When the object becomes "active" (gets focus, gets selected, or when simply mouse hovers over it) the icon is re-decorated with opacity level set to 100% for overlays (which makes it look as it is today)
Note that this is a big change
I think it can be done almost entirely inside core code. The impact on users will be minimal, especially if there are some default values to be used. User could override those if needed. All we need is the access to the active widget/control to check the state, and the overlays which we already have.
If you think it is easy by all means attach a patch - the decorator manager is currently client agnostic so you would need to think of a way to send the state to it.
Oleg is now responsible for watching the [Decorators] category.
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