Hello

I am using Xubuntu but I installed dolphin because I am very used to it after over a year of KDE usage, but I noticed something strange:

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/39/dolphind.png/

left row of dolphin is active but there is a strange colouring on the inactive row (right one), this happened only recently, I didn't have this on me old KDE system and also for a few first days it didn't look like this, it looked like this:

http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/ ... itview.png

what could be the cause of this?

Can you reproduce this under a new user?
Have you attempted to change the background of Dolphin windows?

How can I change the background? I am using dolphin on xfce.

EDIT: I created another user and still colours are messed up.

Okay, so it seems to be system wide.

Which version of KDE are you using?

As I posted earlier I am using Xfce but I installed dolphin because I used KDE for some time earlier and really liked it as a file manager.

Dolphin uses underlying technology which comes from the KDE version you installed it from. In Dolphin, what KDE version is shown in Help > About KDE?

It says:

Platform Version 4.7.4 (4.7.4)

This could be due to the KDE Colour scheme you have in use. If you run "kcmshell4 colors" and switch to a different scheme, can you reproduce?

When I invoke

kcmshell4 colors

I get

kcmshell(14603)/kdecore (services) KServiceFactory::findServiceByDesktopPath: "colors.desktop" not found
kcmshell(14603)/kdecore (services) KServiceFactory::findServiceByDesktopPath: "kcm_colors.desktop" not found
kcmshell(14603)/kdecore (services) KServiceFactory::findServiceByDesktopPath: "kcmcolors.desktop" not found
Could not find module 'colors'. See kcmshell4 --list for the full list of modules.

so I think I need to install something first.

Yes, you will probably need to install parts of KDE Workspace in order to change your KDE color scheme.

Can you try to pinpoint what packages should I install?

EDIT:
Preferably I would want to install as little as possible.

The source code is located at kde-workspace.git, directory /kcontrol/colors/ on git.kde.org. What package it relates to is usually distribution dependent.

To be honest it seems that it will take me more than 5 minutes, so I won't try to fix this issue for now, because it doesen't affect the functionality of Dolphin, but thanks for your time bcooksley .

Judging by what I have here, if this is a bug and not a colour scheme problem it is likely fixed in 4.8.0.