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by Emil Sedgh on Friday 21/Mar/2008, @04:50

Hi
I think it 'is' necessary for all themes to match their colors with system colors.its really bad that all my applications are looking almost white, but the plasma panel and desktop are almost black.
Aya plasma theme does this, but i think there should be something more general so all themes get this automatically, or at least an option to 'match with color themes'.

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Re: Colors
by DanaKil on Friday 21/Mar/2008, @05:28

"Match with color themes" as an option seems better to me (don't know if and how this is possible). I like to have a dark panel/widget theme which fit well with a dark background and to have more bright windows color scheme

This contest is a great idea btw :)

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Re: Colors
by Soap on Friday 21/Mar/2008, @10:38

One advantage to the way plasma's doing it now, is that the colour scheme is hinted. This lets the artist control how the colour is applied. Amarok 2 already takes advantage of that kind of theming, where different areas are tonally different, but still match the overal colourscheme.

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Re: Colors
by Erunno on Friday 21/Mar/2008, @15:13

I remember someone posting a patch for peer review on panel-devel which allegedly solved this problem i.e. Plasma elements adopted system colors. The person even provided some screenshots showing the desktop with different system colours and it looked all very nice to me.

The odd thing was that the review request was practically ignored, nobody ever answered. I still wonder what actually happened there. Did the Plasma maintainers not understand the patch or were they waiting for some reference opinion from Mr. Seigo who missed/forgot the patch?

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Re: Colors
by Andrew Lake (jamboarder) on Friday 21/Mar/2008, @15:39

Oh no, it wasn't ignored. It got reviewed and accepted. It's all in there. The Aya plasma theme is the first result of that effort.

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Re: Colors
by Erunno on Saturday 22/Mar/2008, @06:45

Ah, thanks for the hint and the link to the Aya theme in the other comment. Looking again at the screenshots with Plasma widgets using native colour scheme the desktop looks far more coherent to me than the concoction of light and black colours that make up the current desktop in 4.0.

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