Re: Themes and unreadable text
On 02/05/2012, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 02 May 2012 08:26:12 +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote:
>
>> i'm looking for a theme where the background in konqueror and
>> tranmission is all white instead of its current
>> grey/white/grey/white/etc which is difficult for me to read in the grey
>> bars. The black text just seems to merge into the grey background which
>> i find almost impossible to read, and that’s with my reading glasses on!
>> :)
>
> Are you running Konqueror from GNOME?
Yes, I use whichever tool I think is good enough, and konqueror wins
over nautilus I find.
>
>> I tried altering the theme in gnome-control-center > appearance, but the
>> one that i chose also made the title bars black so that i couldn't read
>> what they said.
>>
>> Does anyone know what I'm talking about?
>
> Well, I think yes :-)
>
> In Gnome Look¹ there are many themes, GTK styles and colour patterns you
> can try. If you like dark schemas, "Sonar" from openSUSE was very good
> (IIRC it used mainly a black/green pattern).
But thats the problem I find, the current theme is too dark. So I've
installed one called 'sloth'
>
> Anyway, Tranmission will be okay (I guess you're using the GTK+ flavour)
> but Konqueror uses a Qt framework, maybe you encounter some integration
> problem with this.
>
No problems that I know about :)
> ¹http://gnome-look.org/
>
Thanks for this, very useful .
Sharon.
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