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I have an annoying color problem...
![]() For new year I finally did a fresh install of Mandriva 2010.0 on top of my previous Mandriva 2008.0, thus migrating from KDE3 to KDE4.3.2. I kept my home partition and the ~/.kde folder, although now KDE4 uses ~/.kde4. I migrated many of my previous KDE settings (Kmail, Kjots, Knotes, etc.) by simply copying over some configuration files into ~/.kde4. Some files gave me trouble and I let KDE4 regenerate them. However, I didn't try to migrate any color or theme settings because I wanted to start them from stratch. Everything is now OK saving this trouble: sometimes Konqueror shows a form field or unfoldable menu in dark green background and white text, completely unlike my KDE theme. See an example here: ![]() In some other cases is far worse, because both background and text come up white! This happens with the search box at Google. In other cases, the fields come in black text on white background as expected. I've tried everything I can think of: renaming the file ~/.kde4/config/kdeglobals, renaming the entire old ~/.kde folder... Nothing works. In systemsettings I can't find those strange colors, and anyway all the words I see there (active, inactive, negative, focus, neutral) are like Sumerian to me. Now comes the odd detail: Skype takes on exactly the same colors throughout! ![]() I installed Qtconfig to tweak this, but it only pops up in the same colors that Skype has without giving me any option to change them. Opera had a similar problem (clear text on clear background in the menu bar) and I fixed that by trashing the ~/.qt/qtrc and ~/.config/Trolltech.conf files, which however didn't fix the trouble with Skype and Konqueror. By the way, this version of Skype is statically linked, if that means something to somebody. So, where are Skype, Qtconfig and Konqueror taking those colors from? ![]() |
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Can you reproduce this under a new user?
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Hi, thanks for the quick reply.
No, a new user doesn't have this problem. Actually, it disappears if I rename my ~/.kde4 folder and log back in letting KDE recreate it. Anyway, I'll go on with this fix, as I had just started using KDE4, and will try to import my KDE3 settings from within each application. I tried scripts like kaboom, but it didn't work, so I'll have to do it one by one. On the other hand, I'd really love to find some explanation for all those terms in systemsettings/color. They are totally opaque and unintuitive... ![]() |
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Having the two folders you can use kompare (comes with KDE) or kdiff3 (3rd-party app available in the repos for most distros) to diff the two directories and see what exactly changed, though depending on the amount of customization you've done that could be a little on the tedious side (though no more tedious than looking at each file individually trying to find a particular setting).
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