[DESKTOP] Application Color Scheme question

[Tahaan]

I use a customised Application Color scheme. It took some time and trial and error to get it the way I want it, and of course I don't want to have to do it over.

However I want to change one aspect of it, specifically I want to change scrollbars because currently I find that they don't stand out enough.

I can't see how Edit my currently active "color scheme" - The "Edit Scheme" button does nothing until you select a scheme from the list and then it loads that one into the Scheme editor, which is not what I want since I don't want to start over.

I don't know if that makes sense.

[Snowhog]

Edit the customized color scheme you created. IT should reside somewhere within your /home directory

[Tahaan]

I can see some of the "interim steps" as I worked on the theme/colors, but none of them match the current, final version.

[wizard10000]

I can see some of the "interim steps" as I worked on the theme/colors, but none of them match the current, final version.

Have you saved the current version yet? I save mine with the date I saved them as part of the filename; then if I mess something up I can fix it

[Tahaan]

Please that's exactly what I want to do.... I can't find a way to do that!!!!

Is there a way I can do it from the command-line? Otherwise perhaps I can create a new user on another distribution I have installed, Import those settings into that user's profile, use the older version of the GUI there and save it, and then bring that back to my Neon environment.

[wizard10000]

In systemsettings --> colors the theme you're currently using should be labeled "Current". Just click the "Save As" button on the right and give the color scheme a name.

If you customize a color scheme it's kept in ~/.local/share/color-schemes. You should be able to find it there and drop it in your Neon setup.

Hope this helps -

[Tahaan]

Frustratingly I have Neither "Current" nor any "Save" button. This is what the new interface looks like



If I select any one of the saved schemes, I can edit it and save that to a new name. However I have no way of accessing the currently active set.

[GreyGeek]

Here is what my "Color" GUI looks like. I saved the "Current" scheme as "jlk_scheme" and it immediately appeared in the list.

Stock 16.04 fully updated and with systemd-gui, systemd-ui, kde-config-systemd and associated apps installed. It brings in a lot of KDE and Qt gui libraries.

~$ apt-cache depends kde-config-systemd
kde-config-systemd
Depends: systemd
systemd:i386
Depends: libc6
Depends: libgcc1
Depends: libkf5auth5
Depends: libkf5configwidgets5
Depends: libkf5coreaddons5
Depends: libkf5i18n5
Depends: libkf5kiocore5
Depends: libkf5widgetsaddons5
Depends: libqt5core5a
Depends: libqt5dbus5
|Depends: libqt5gui5
Depends: libqt5gui5-gles
Depends: libqt5widgets5
Depends: libstdc++6
Depends: libsystemd0

[wizard10000]

Interesting. I'm seeing the same thing - Plasma 5.8 on Debian Unstable -

[wizard10000]

Ah. Figgered it out. Edit whatever scheme you like and when you're done you'll get a prompt for a name. The save button is grayed out unless you actually make a change to a color scheme.

Hope this helps -

[wizard10000]

Edit the customized color scheme you created. IT should reside somewhere within your /home directory

They're in ~/.local/share/color-schemes. OP could just copy one of them and edit away

[GreyGeek]

Ah. Figgered it out. Edit whatever scheme you like and when you're done you'll get a prompt for a name. The save button is grayed out unless you actually make a change to a color scheme.

Hope this helps -

mmmm.... So which GUI is the more recent? Mine colord and colord-data (assuming that is the package) is 1.2.12-1ubuntu1
And, what if you wanted to make a backup of a scheme BEFORE you made in changes, just in case?

Personally, it seems that the package you guys are using is poorly designed and lacking features compared to the one in my installation. (Options, Colors, Disabled). I'm going to watch and make sure it isn't "updated" if yours is the newer one.

[wizard10000]

mmmm.... So which GUI is the more recent? Mine colord and colord-data (assuming that is the package) is 1.2.12-1ubuntu1
And, what if you wanted to make a backup of a scheme BEFORE you made in changes, just in case?

I purged colord months ago, GG - this appears to be a frameworks thing, I think. Pretty sure colord is for managing hardware color profiles for printers and scanners and such.

Running Plasma 5.8 and Frameworks 5.26.0.

edit: Which is more recent? Probably mine and OP's - Debian just released 5.8 in Sid over the weekend. Mine looked just like yours until I opened it this afternoon

[GreyGeek]

You are, no doubt, right about colord. Colord has been a constant source of system log errors during bootup but didn't seem to bother my installation. I guess I'll follow your lead and either uninstall it or mask it, since my printer is a monotone laser


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[wizard10000]

You are, no doubt, right about colord. Colord has been a constant source of system log errors during bootup but didn't seem to bother my installation. I guess I'll follow your lead and either uninstall it or mask it, since my printer is a monotone laser

Same here. I talked the spousal unit out of getting another color printer and have a B/W duplexing Brother laser that works just fine with Linux and only cost me about a Franklin and a half. Saw colord back when I was running fluxbox, wondered WTH it was and finally just uninstalled it. One less unneeded resource

BTW, that big, heavy HP Color Laserjet 2605dn that I did have is now happily keeping the boat from floating away as a set of OEM toner costs more than the printer did. Done paying the HP tax, honest