Changing qt3 (Amarok, k3b) color theme in Kubuntu 8.10

[Guest]

i'd like to change the color theme of amarok and k3b in kubuntu intrepid (8.10). in hardy i could do that running kcontrol. in intrepid this package is no more, so far i tried:

- to find another program which could do the color scheme change. i found a program called qtconfig-qt3, but amarok's and k3b's colors didn't change.

- i've also tried to set the color in amarok's settings but as i use a dark theme, the alternate colors in the lists stayed light so it's not very useful.

- also tried amarok-kde4 but it quite unstable actually or at least i would like to use the old interface of amarok. let me now if it's possible to change it in the amarok-kde4.

any suggestions?

EDIT: hope it's the right place to ask.

p.s. sorry for my english...

[Rog131]

Re: Changing qt3 (Amarok, k3b) color theme in Kubuntu 8.10

i'd like to change the color theme of amarok and k3b in kubuntu intrepid (8.10). in hardy i could do that running kcontrol.

Hmm - this says that there are no such beast > qt3 wrapper to make kde3 applications look like kde4 ?


Hmm #2 - let's use kde3 tools: kcontrol module color.


Quick and dirty way to get kde3 color controls

Going to the Ubuntu Packages

Searching:

Search: kcontrol
Distribution: hardy-backports

=> kcontrol (4:3.5.10-0ubuntu1~hardy2)

Scrolling down, there are download kcontrol (amd386/i386)

In this example i386 =>

Download Page for kcontrol_3.5.10-0ubuntu1~hardy2_i386.deb on Intel x86 machines

Downloading it in to the ~/kcontrol/
that is /home/<USER>/kcontrol/

Opening a konsole there, it tells:

user@machine:~/kcontrol$

Giving a command:

dpkg -x kcontrol_3.5.10-0ubuntu1~hardy2_i386.deb ~/kcontrol

man dpkg

dpkg(1) dpkg suite dpkg(1)

NAME
dpkg - package manager for Debian

SYNOPSIS
dpkg [options] action

...

dpkg can be also be used as a front-end to dpkg-deb(1). The following
are dpkg-deb actions, and if they are encountered, dpkg just runs
dpkg-deb with the parameters given to it:
....
-x, --extract,
....

There are lot of stuff, but now we only need:

- kcm_colors.la
- kcm_colors.so
they are ~/kcontrol/usr/lib/kde3

- colors.desktop
it is in the
~/kcontrol/usr/share/applications/kde

Explanation > KConfig Module HOWTO


Copying:

sudo cp ~/kcontrol/usr/lib/kde3/kcm_colors.la /usr/lib/kde3
sudo cp ~/kcontrol/usr/lib/kde3/kcm_colors.so /usr/lib/kde3
sudo cp ~/kcontrol/usr/share/applications/kde/colors.desktop /usr/share/applications/kde

Restarting, sometimes KDE 4.1.X and Intrepid is a bit slow to notice that there are installed/modified applications.


Testing: Alt + F2 and typing

kcmshell colors

Let there be light colors:

[Guest]

Re: Changing qt3 (Amarok, k3b) color theme in Kubuntu 8.10

hey Rog131,

Thanks, it worked immediately, no restart required here.

[CVPunk]

Re: Changing qt3 (Amarok, k3b) color theme in Kubuntu 8.10

I see this was solved, but just as aside, you can get themes for amarok and k3b from
http://www.kde-look.org/