I am trying out different color schemes and keep coming up against a problem. I have numerous bookmarks/short-cuts on the Places panel in Dolphin. Try as I might, I can't zero in on the color set View, Window, etc and any of the combinations under those possibilities.

Of the developed darker color schemes that I am trying, the shortcut on the places tab is visible if I happen to be in that directory with the shortcut. Ones that are inactive are illegible for they are close to, if not actually, black-on-black.

The link to a png shows where I am going to tweak a scheme once it is loaded. http://tinypic.com/r/2psg0t0/5

Can you please provide a screenshot of the illegible component of Dolphin where it is black-on-black?
Have you tried restarting Dolphin to verify that this isn't a runtime detection of colour scheme change issue?

bcooksley wrote:Have you tried restarting Dolphin to verify that this isn't a runtime detection of colour scheme change issue?

Oh, is that what you technically call what I did? I stumbled on that solution and that issue cleared up.

But I have a similar one. This involves Audacity and it is not a runtime detection of colour scheme change issue. Click http://tinypic.com/r/289j71g/5 to view the image. This is a composite of two images. The half black background and half-mauve background of the timeline is how it appears using any dark colour scheme. The mauve background is rendered if a selection of the file is made. The lower half of the pic is a similar portion of the file but with the default Oxygen theme. All the numbers of the timeline appear in any state.

Thank you for the help and I hope the answer is not difficult to determine.

The issue is - Dolphin should detect changes to the user's preferred colour scheme at runtime, in all components. If it doesn't, then that is a bug, which should be reported at bugs.kde.org. Please include a screenshot showing the area in question which did not update itself correctly.

For Audacity, it looks like the colour scheme mapping it performs isn't working out properly. Is this with Oxygen Gtk 2 or Oxygen Gtk 3?

The scheme is one that I downloaded from kde-look.org and is called Wanton Soup. So, it is not Oxygen at all. How do I determine if I am using GTK2 or GTK3?

Does there exist more comprehensive documentation for determining how or which color sets are applied to an application window? The explanations in Colors of the KDE Help Center I find are totally inadequate for identifying if I am trying to change a color in the a View or a Window.

Consider these two screenshots from pgAdminIII, the GUI for PostgreSQL: http://tinypic.com/r/23iexwy/5 and http://tinypic.com/r/6odcg2/5. I am attempting to modify the color of text under the cursor 'postgres on postgres@localhost:5432'. This same color combination is used on the Data Output box at the bottom of the window. After hunting and pecking for over an hour, I still can not find the aspect within the tab Colors under Colors - System Settings (System Settings-> Application Appearance -> Colors).

pgAdminIII definitely looks like a Gtk application - or one using it's own toolkit. In your case it appears KDE colours are not working properly in non-KDE/Qt applications, so I would suggest unchecking "Apply colours to non-KDE4 applications" in System Settings > Application Appearance > Colours > Options, and then removing ~/.gtkrc-2.0

I followed your suggestion only to discover that the choice of "Apply colours to non-KDE4 applications" was already unchecked. Looking in my home folder, I did not find .gtkrc-2.0 but did find .gtkrc-2.0-kde4. Rather than delete it, I merely renamed it for the moment. It did nothing to modify the appearance of pdAdminIII. Even after closing it and reopening to get around any runtime issues.

Thank you for your continued help and patience.

Are there any other ~/.gtk* files present? Also, can you check to see what GTK* environment variables are set on your system?
The following command should list them and their contents:

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env | grep GTK

Good day,

Executing that command yields the following:

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GTK2_RC_FILES=/etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:/home/daniel/.gtkrc-2.0:/home/daniel/.gtkrc-2.0-kde4:/home/daniel/.kde/share/config/gtkrc-2.0
GTK_RC_FILES=/etc/gtk/gtkrc:/home/daniel/.gtkrc:/home/daniel/.kde/share/config/gtkrc


bcooksley wrote:Are there any other ~/.gtk* files present? Also, can you check to see what GTK* environment variables are set on your system?
The following command should list them and their contents:

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env | grep GTK

Okay, please make sure /home/daniel/.kde/share/config/gtkrc-2.0 and /home/daniel/.kde/share/config/gtkrc do not exist or are moved elsewhere.