Mark Knecht posted on Tue, 09 Apr 2013 14:51:26 -0700 as excerpted: >> One other thing I noticed: With the oxygen (and professional) desktop >> theme(s), there's a small (1 px?) blue outline around the active >> desktop in the pager. > > Exactly what I see but what's blue for you it's a 1 pixel white border > for me, and this border is really only visible around the corners of the > active pager box.
I see you found the slim glow theme that addresses your immediate need, but this bit's interesting, none-the-less. We were both using oxygen, but that blue outline for me is white for you, like the air themes for me. That means there's something else to it also, probably the color schemes I mentioned as a possibility but discounted, earlier. But in the quick experiment I did with the pager here, I did try switching a couple colors there, and none of the colors I switched anyway, changed the blue outline. I even switched to a different color scheme and restarted plasma, but still the outline didn't change. However, I might be encountering a bug I saw once before, where some bits of plasma don't change color when the scheme changes -- I only saw the change with a kde restart. I thought the plasma restart would do it too, but it would appear to be something kded (or something equally deep in kde's guts) retains. Now that I know your color is different, however, I'll do a bit more experimentation, and see what I turn up. Maybe a call to kbuildsycoca4 will trigger the switch without restarting all of X/kde... I'll have to see what turns up... Meanwhile, FWIW I use a customized variant of the Dark-blue-Debian color scheme from kdelook (calling mine dark-blue-dunc =:^), downloaded originally back in the kde 4.2/4.3 era when I switched from kde3, but tweaked here and there as needed since then. That was a good start, far better than most "reverse" color schemes at the time in terms of readability, so the author had done his homework to some degree, but that was early enough in the kde4 story that it simply hadn't had time to be tweaked to the degree I've tweaked my copy now, and I've tweaked it here rather than checking back there for an update, so for all I know it has been further tweaked since then as well. You could try dark-blue-debian if you like, downloading it from kdelook as I did, especially if you prefer "reverse" light-on-dark color-schemes, as opposed to the default and more common dark-on-light, which simply doesn't work well for me. (The combination of the all too common shades- of-gray defaults along with dark-on-light is /seriously/ uncomfortable for me here, to the point I feel physically slightly nauseous/ill.) If you recall, that was actually one of my original complaints about kde4, that it didn't import the kde3 color scheme and that there was (at the time, kde 4.2/4.3 era) not enough documentation on the far more complex kde4 setup to work with it effectively. Fortunately, the kde developer responsible for the kde settings color dialog saw my complaints and we worked together to make the dialog itself better, and the help contents far more useful as well, so while it's still quite complex, it's possible to actually work with it sanely these days, for those with sufficient motivation to read the help for it and then work with the system instead of trying to fight it. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
