3.2-RC3 Yellow window borders have poorly visible titles with Breeze on KWin

[Vít Šesták]

When I use KWin with Breeze theme, the yellow window titles have white text, which is poorly readable. Could this be changed to, say, black text?
Regards,
Vít Šesták 'v6ak'

[Marek Marczykowski-Górecki]

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On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 10:32:47PM -0700, Vít Šesták wrote:
> When I use KWin with Breeze theme, the yellow window titles have white
> text, which is poorly readable. Could this be changed to, say, black text?

If it is possible to change this from color profile (see the other mail
about Kwin), then yes - you'll need to edit
/usr/bin/qubes-generate-color-palette:
https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-desktop-linux-kde/blob/master/plasma-breeze-qubes/qubes-generate-color-palette

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Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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[Vít Šesták]

It looks like it is. Just setting activeForeground (and optionally inactiveForeground, but I don't need it) does the trick. Even without reloading anything, I can just save the file.

I found the documentation at https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Theme-related_files . Well, it is for some ancient KDE and without much details, but it still seems somewhat relevant.

I hope I'll do more about this later.

Regards,
Vít Šesták 'v6ak'

[Vít Šesták]

I've done some improvement by configuring foreground colors of yellow, green and orange VMs to black. Borders of inactive windows are not fixed (that is, they still have the same color as in inactive windows), but I am not sure if there is a way to fix them.

Tested with Breeze and it works well. I've also tried to test it with Plastik, but even without my modification, it makes the active window title uncolored (i.e. some generic color regardless of the VM color). Is Plastik theme considered as supported?

(No, I don't want to use Plastik theme, I just wanted to assure that I did not break anything. If Plastik works OK for others, I'll have to find out what is broken on my machine. If Plastik is not supposed to work well ATM, I'll probably send a pull request.)

Regards,
Vít Šesták 'v6ak'

[Marek Marczykowski-Górecki]

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On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 10:27:39AM -0700, Vít Šesták wrote:
> I've done some improvement by configuring foreground colors of yellow,
> green and orange VMs to black. Borders of inactive windows are not fixed
> (that is, they still have the same color as in inactive windows), but I am
> not sure if there is a way to fix them.
>
> Tested with Breeze and it works well. I've also tried to test it with
> Plastik, but even without my modification, it makes the active window title
> uncolored (i.e. some generic color regardless of the VM color). Is Plastik
> theme considered as supported?

Take a look at discussion here:
https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/1784

In short: no, Plastik is not supported. And borders color seems to be "a
feature":
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=360237#c2

> (No, I don't want to use Plastik theme, I just wanted to assure that I did
> not break anything. If Plastik works OK for others, I'll have to find out
> what is broken on my machine. If Plastik is not supposed to work well ATM,
> I'll probably send a pull request.)

:)

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Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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[Vít Šesták]

Thanks for the info.

On Sunday, September 11, 2016 at 9:00:46 PM UTC+2, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote:

Take a look at discussion here:
https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/1784

 
I went through the discussion. Is there anything specific I should note?

In short: no, Plastik is not supported. And borders color seems to be "a
feature":
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=360237#c2

 
OK, I'll PR it tomorrow.