Changing digiKam colours (KDE on Windows)

[pshute]

I've changed from the default theme to Dark, but there are still some items that are very bright and distracting, e.g. scrollbars and some parts of some right sidepanels.



Is there a way to change these?  I suspect I must change a KDE theme, but does that mean all other programs will be affected too?



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[pshute]

Answering my own question, I configured KDE on windows to use the Oxygen theme instead of Windows Native, and that has fixed all the problem areas.  For those yet to try this, I edited C:\Documents and Settings\myprofile\Application Data\.kde\share\config\kdeglobals and added:
[General]
widgetStyle=oxygen

I have been trialling the Lightroom 3 beta, and was wondering why my photos seemed to look better with it than digiKam, then realised it was because of the dark background.  Maybe digiKam should have a dark background by default, I think it gives a much better first impression of the program.

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Subject: [Digikam-users] Changing digiKam colours (KDE on Windows)

I've changed from the default theme to Dark, but there are still some items that are very bright and distracting, e.g. scrollbars and some parts of some right sidepanels.

Is there a way to change these?  I suspect I must change a KDE theme, but does that mean all other programs will be affected too?
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[Gilles Caulier-4]

2010/1/17 Peter Shute <[hidden email]>:
> Answering my own question, I configured KDE on windows to use the Oxygen theme instead of Windows Native, and that has fixed all the problem areas.  For those yet to try this, I edited C:\Documents and Settings\myprofile\Application Data\.kde\share\config\kdeglobals and added:
> [General]
> widgetStyle=oxygen
>
> I have been trialling the Lightroom 3 beta, and was wondering why my photos seemed to look better with it than digiKam, then realised it was because of the dark background.  Maybe digiKam should have a dark background by default, I think it gives a much better first impression of the program.

Yes, i use Wonton soup KDE4 color theme on my computer with default
digiKam theme, to have dark background.

About windows, please file a bugs in KDE-Windows project to set Oxygen
theme by default (it's not digiKam fault here).

digiKam theme management will be rewritten in the future, using Qt4
style sheet. Current one is not very well implemented, based on Qt3
coding style taken from Amarok.

Best

Gilles Caulier
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[pshute]

Yes, Oxygen is definitely a KDE "problem", and it may be that they have deliberately left it on the Windows native setting so the programs look like windows programs.

But how does Oxygen make the scrollbars (for example) dark?  If I leave the KDE theme set to Windows native, none of the digiKam themes can change them.  But as soon as I enable Oxygen, some digiKam themes can change them.

Now you say that the KDE theme Wonton Soup can change them even with digiKam theme set to default?

I'm confused about how they're interacting.

With the change to Qt4, will this remove the need to change the KDE theme?

I think programs like digiKam are different to others, e.g. OpenOffice, and need everything dark where the others need not be.  I would have thought it would warrant overriding the system theme entirely.

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2010/1/17 Peter Shute <[hidden email]>:
> Answering my own question, I configured KDE on windows to use the Oxygen theme instead of Windows Native, and that has fixed all the problem areas.  For those yet to try this, I edited C:\Documents and Settings\myprofile\Application Data\.kde\share\config\kdeglobals and added:
> [General]
> widgetStyle=oxygen
>
> I have been trialling the Lightroom 3 beta, and was wondering why my photos seemed to look better with it than digiKam, then realised it was because of the dark background.  Maybe digiKam should have a dark background by default, I think it gives a much better first impression of the program.

Yes, i use Wonton soup KDE4 color theme on my computer with default
digiKam theme, to have dark background.

About windows, please file a bugs in KDE-Windows project to set Oxygen
theme by default (it's not digiKam fault here).

digiKam theme management will be rewritten in the future, using Qt4
style sheet. Current one is not very well implemented, based on Qt3
coding style taken from Amarok.

Best

Gilles Caulier
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[Laurent Espitallier]

Le 17/01/2010 23:18, Peter Shute a écrit :
> Answering my own question, I configured KDE on windows to use the Oxygen theme instead of Windows Native, and that has fixed all the problem areas.  For those yet to try this, I edited C:\Documents and Settings\myprofile\Application Data\.kde\share\config\kdeglobals and added:
> [General]
> widgetStyle=oxygen
>
> I have been trialling the Lightroom 3 beta, and was wondering why my photos seemed to look better with it than digiKam, then realised it was because of the dark background.  Maybe digiKam should have a dark background by default, I think it gives a much better first impression of the program.
>    

Thanks for the tip !


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