KDE Display Setup: Color Scheme
The Color Scheme setup dialog is comprised of three sections:
- 1. The color scheme Preview.
- 2. The current Widget Color.
- 3. The available Color Schemes.
Note: User interface elements ( e.g. buttons, menus, scroll bars )
are known as widgets.
Preview
This section of the dialog demonstrates how a color scheme applies to a
sample selection of widgets. A color scheme consists of a set of ten
colors. These colors apply to the
- 1. inactive title bar background
- 2. inactive title bar text
- 3. active title bar background
- 4. active title bar text
- 5. general background
- 6. general foreground
- 7. selection background
- 8. selection text
- 9. window background
- 10. window text
Labels on the sample widgets will help you identify where these colors apply.
The colors are grouped into 5 foreground / background pairs. Thus, good
contrast between the foreground and background colors of widgets can be
ensured at all times.
When you press Ok or Apply the color scheme you have selected
will be written to the desktop configuration. There are some problems in
the Qt toolkit when changing the colors in a running application, particularly
with lists and combo boxes. These elements will not be displayed properly
until the applications are restarted. Hopefully these problems will be
fixed in a future release of Qt.
Widget Color
The currently selected member of the color scheme is shown in the combo box
of the Widget Color group. This can be changed by clicking on the colored
box. A color selection dialog will then appear, from which you may select a
new color.
When you are happy with your color selection, press Ok in the color
selection dialog. The color will be updated in the Preview.
You may select any member of the color scheme from the combo box.
Color schemes
Four color schemes are supplied with KDisplay. These are called
- 1. KDE Default
- 2. Atlas Green
- 3. Blue Slate
- 4. Windows 95
To preview a scheme click on its name in the list box. You can use the
supplied color schemes as a starting point to devise your own. In future it
will be possible to save these . However, in this version of KDisplay
the Save and Remove buttons are disabled.