Does anyone know how to change Amarok's tooltip font colour? I'm running Amarok with Ubuntu, and the tooltips have a dark grey background colour, with a semi-dark grey tooltip colour. It's very difficult to read:



I'd like to change the colour of the font to white.

Running (updated 2012-01-03):
* Ubuntu 11.04
* Kernel: 2.6.38-13-generic
* Amarok: 2:2.4.0-0ubuntu5.1 (Version 2.4.0, Using KDE 4.6.5 (4.6.5))

Amarok obeys KDE's theming. This can be changed in the 'systemsettings' program, which may or may not have been installed with Amarok (I forget how exactly the dependencies stack up for KDE software on Ubuntu). You're after application appearance > colours.

In Ubuntu, it's Menu --> Preferences --> Appearance.
Under "colours", I can change the "tooltip" colours, but everything non-Amarok is already correct. It's a dark grey background, with a solid white text colour. Easy to read.



It looks like Amarok is not obeying Ubuntu's (gnome) theme settings. I have no idea how to edit "KDE" configuration from within gnome...

You need to install/run the systemsettings program, like I said. This is *not* the same as GNOME's settings menu.

Or alternately, run "kcmshell4 colors". However, as you are missing the KDE Workspace components, it may not be installed.

I was able to install "systemsettings" in ubuntu using apt-get install.

However, I'm inspecting the "Colors - System Settings" area, under the Colors, Colors Tab, "Color Set: Tooltip", and all of the settings are correct, and don't match what Amarok is using.

http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/2423/systemsettingscolors.png


Compare the colours seen in the systemsettings window with the tooltip screenshot in the original post for Amarok. Clearly Amarok is /not/ using the "KDE System Settings" for it's tooltip

Also, kmshell4 is installed, but the "colors" module is not. I've posted these questions in ubuntu forums: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1807389

I'm still hoping someone from KDE/Amarok can assist/comment on why Amarok doesn't appear to be using the "systemsettings" colour schemes defined.

fermulator wrote:I'm still hoping someone from KDE/Amarok can assist/comment on why Amarok doesn't appear to be using the "systemsettings" colour schemes defined.

Guess who the people are who answered your post...

To give further insight into my problem, although I assign colours to background and text for the tooltip within the colour settings for KDE (kcmshell4 colors), Amarok does not appear to adhere to the settings.

This problem still exists at Kubuntu 13.10 - Alpha 2 at 21 August 2013 and there has been no real and simple solution posted to something that makes KDE annoying, only a few workarounds that may or may not work.

The problem is happens because some non KDE applications use a dark font for tool tips while KDE is using a white font on a dark background. For some reason KDE enforces the background colour on most apps, but lets the non KDE apps choose their default font colour. Therefore in KDE apps we get nice crisp white letters against an almost black background and in apps like Amarok it is nice crisp black on an almost black background. Impossible to read, and changing the Tooltip Font colour in KDE System Settings only seems to change the font colour in KDE apps..

There is only one "Simple" solution that seems to work every time, for me at least. Change the Tooltip Background colour instead.

Open System Settings.
Find Common Appearance and Behaviour (probably right at the top)
About 3 items down should be Application Appearance
Under that, click on Colors.

Under the heading "Change the colors used in Applications" Click the Colors tab
Scroll down to Tooltip Background and change the colour to something like a nice medium Orange. Something that either white, or black text will show up against.
Leave the next line (Tooltip Text) set as white.

Some people have found that changing away from black, then changing back to black sets evrything to use the correct colours. I have not been so lucky, so my tool tips all have a coloured background. Anyway, here are the steps (for beginners). Experienced users will know about this.

Click the Apply button in the bottom corner.

Check Amarok or any other application giving you the black on black.
You should now have a soft orange colour (or whatever you chose) background, and depending if you are using a KDE app or a GNOME app, you will either have white or black text. Whichever it is, it shoudl be readable.

Cheers,

RossD.

could you both be more precise on which exact Amarok version you are talking about?

Please also state which "Style" you have KDE configured to use - it looks like it could be configured to use Gtk - in which case your Gtk theme could be overriding or ignoring the KDE colour scheme.

Saw some activity in this thread and figured I'd update.

I'm now running Ubuntu 12.04, and Amarok 2.7.1. The issue seems "resolved" (magically -- obviously via some update/upgrade of packages...)

Some version information:
{{{
fermulator@fermmy:~$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS \n \l

fermulator@fermmy:~$ uname -a
Linux fermmy 3.5.0-37-generic #58~precise1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jul 10 17:48:11 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Amarok
Version 2.7.1
Using KDE 4.10.5
fermulator@fermmy:~$ dpkg --list | grep amarok
ii amarok 2:2.7.1-0ubuntu0.1~ubuntu12.04~ppa1 easy to use media player based on the KDE Platform
ii amarok-common 2:2.7.1-0ubuntu0.1~ubuntu12.04~ppa1 architecture independent files for Amarok
ii amarok-utils 2:2.7.1-0ubuntu0.1~ubuntu12.04~ppa1 utilities for Amarok media player
}}}

Also, I've switched from "Ubuntu Panel/Unity" to "Cinnamon" window manager:
{{{
fermulator@fermmy:~$ dpkg --list | grep cinnamon
ii cinnamon 1.8.8-0ubuntu1~precise1 Cinnamon desktop
ii cinnamon-common 1.8.8-0ubuntu1~precise1 Cinnamon desktop (Common data files)
ii cinnamon-screensaver 1.8.0-20130505194857-precise Cinnamon screen saver and locker
}}}

I'm not sure how to tell which "style" KDE is using..

You can find out which style is being used by KDE by checking in System Settings > Application Appearance > Style. The default is "Oxygen". If you are running under GNOME or Unity however, then the Gtk style may be used instead.