On Friday 06 June 2025 10:41:46 Darrell Anderson via tde-users wrote: > On 6/5/25 10:51 PM, William Morder via tde-users wrote: > This is why I do not want a full dark theme mode. Dark themes hurt my > eyes. Literally. Whenever I visit a web site with the idiotic "we are > soooo freakin' cooool" dark themes For what it's worth, I was freakin coooool before all those wannabe hipsters. Almost from Day 1, when I figured out how to do it (long before Linux, back in the late 90s, once I figured out how to hack my machines, I created dark themes, dark backgrounds with lighter text, in order to save my eyes. This was back in Macintosh Classic II days, that big bad box (which is how it looked) with an 80 mb hard drive. And mine was actually an upgrade; just before I got mine, they were only 40 mb. In Windoze systems, I have pretty much always hacked my programs to suit my eyes. > But dark color accenting works fine, which is all I want with a dark > panel and menu. > > I already have qt5ct installed and running. Works nice with Qt5 software > although a pity the basic code concept is not native in TDE code like > the two GTK engines. > > All that said, I believe the root cause of the problem is the color of > the menu is tied to the window background color. Short of what David > proposed with some new code to separate the menu, I don't see much of a > solution. I tried yesterday fiddling with themes, styles, decorations, > etc. I remain befuddled. I will ask the stupid question, which you have already tried, I feel sure, from what you say. But ... When I created my own color scheme, I went through Trinity Control Center > Appearance & Themes > Colors I will assume that you do the same. Then, I go through every single entry, piecemeal, don't skip any, and adjust the colors. Sometimes I fiddled round with it all day. However, that was just the first couple days or maybe weeks of KDE3, once I had made the jump over to GNU/Linux. Maybe every few years I go in adjust the brightness or hue or whatever, to make it legible on different backgrounds, etc.; but I have hardly changed a thing since then, and have used this same personal color scheme on every KDE3 or TDE, across 3 or 4 desktop computers, and maybe 5 or 6 laptops; as well as portable versions of my machine, which I have installed on a flash drive. I keep all my old versions, too, as sometimes it's fun to revisit them, to watch how the colors change slightly through the years ... sort of like watching the leaves turn shades. My guess would be that you need to go through that process again, step by step. Maybe you missed one? Otherwise, it makes no sense by comparison with my own machines and experience. I can change the menu color to whatever I want, and get the font in foregrounds to be legible. Maybe you have done this already, though, in which case I, like everybody else, am stumped. Bill ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
