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    changing themes quickly? or theming effectively

    So I've been working on a dark them (I like dark backgrounds with bright green text oldschool style). One of the problems I run into is many times web buttons still use black text and black on black is pretty tough to read. So I've got it worked out to where only window background is black and window text is green, but the buttons still catch me sometimes. So barring actually being able to fix that problem, what I'd like is a way to switch between my theme and a normal quickly. So that I can read buttons and whatnot and then move along while experimenting with themes. Can this be done on the command line (and hence scripted)? Or is there an applet that allows you to change themes from the system tray or elsewhere easily? I've looked around but I keep turning up just themes, so I look to you folks as I imagine you are kde enthusiasts.

    ps - here's a screencap of my problem (notice the buttons at the bottom of the webpage are downright useless, unless you have a braille computer like that dude in sneakers)
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    Re: changing themes quickly? or theming effectively

    You can override font colors in Firefox. Edit > Preferences > Content > Colors. Uncheck "Use system colors", but set the colors to match your theme.

    By the way, Sneakers is a great movie. One of my favorites. "I want peace on Earth and good will toward men." "We're the United States Government. We don't do that kind of thing."
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      Re: changing themes quickly? or theming effectively

      Unfortunately, that doesn't work so well since often pages use the "System" font colour with their own background. So you end up with light text on a light background. Conversely, if you set the colours to black text and white background in Firefox's preferences (like a "normal" MS Windows computer), Firefox still uses the system background colours in some places, such as text entry boxes. This causes trouble on sites like YouTube where they again set the text to black in the text entry boxes (such as a search box) with the dark system background.

      Is there a way to prevent badly behaving applications like Firefox from using the system colours? It used to be that you could prevent it by unchecking K-Menu->System Settings->Appearance->Colours->Apply colours to non-KDE applications. But apparently Firefox thinks it's a KDE application now.
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        Re: changing themes quickly? or theming effectively

        You did, of course, uncheck "allow pages to use their own colors"?
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          Re: changing themes quickly? or theming effectively

          Naturally. But thank you: I really do appreciate your efforts.

          If you go that route, you run into other problems displaying web pages. Some rely heavily on background colours being displayed exactly as they command.

          It's too bad we're hooked on this paper model really. Personally I find it's a lot easier on the eyes not to stare into a bright white light all day!

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            Heh, we have to ask those kind of questions all the time. You'd be surprised how many people miss those options.

            Anyway, I guess the only way to get it to display the way you want it to would be to create your own CSS document and use it to override everything. However, I don't know how to do it (or even if you can do it).
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              Re: changing themes quickly? or theming effectively

              Well I still wish I had a widget in the system tray that would allow me to quick switch. so if anyone knows of this or even a good starting direction in writing one (I'm a bit handy when it comes to code) I'd love to start one.

              Anyhow let me attach my current theme. It works for the most part, but sometimes I still find myself switching back to dark text on light backgrounds to deal with stubborn text fields:

              bah, you can't upload a theme file so I'll host it:
              http://uploads.neoarchaicrevue.com/Thoth.kcsrc.gz

              My server was struggling under the strain of sending the whole 606 bytes so I bzip'd it down to 312 bytes

              Wow, gzip compressed it further than bzip (guess it being so small bzip wasn't even being fully utilized) 303 bytes for the gzip
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