On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 7:33 AM, James Tyrer <jrty...@earthlink.net> wrote: > On 04/08/2013 06:38 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> Hi, >> I updated to KDE-4.10.1 last week when it became stable on Gentoo. >> It's working but I find the new version of Pager not as useful as >> previous versions. In this version, instead of making the current >> desktop noticeably lighter in color, it seems I'm only getting a few >> white pixels at the corners of the selected desktop. To me this isn't >> visible on a 1920x1080 screen at an arm's length. I have to lean >> forward and change focus to find out which one is active. Using the >> older version I only had to glance to the bottom left and I'd see >> which was selected very easily. >> >> I wonder if anyone has found any settings that might make this more >> readable for me? The Desktop Name & Number features don't help but >> maybe there's something buried elsewhere I haven't found. > > > Hi Mark: > > A quick warning, I'm back, but more about that in another post. >
James, Welcome back. I look forward to reading about it when you post back. > This has nothing to so with the Pager. It is just another example of art > gone wrong in KDE, that is that art totally neglected engineering or > usability (and in some cases is simply bad art). > > If you look in: > > $KDEPREFIX/share/apps/desktoptheme/<desktop_theme>/widgets/ > > [Note: if your desktop_theme isn't listed, then look in: "default"] > > you will find a file: "pager.svgz" which contains 3 images that are named > 'normal', 'active', & 'hover'. In the case of Aya, that would be Left to > Right. I presume that: "hover" is a transparent overlay. What pager does > is determined by these images. The same is probably true for other applets > and widgets. > > So, if you don't like what pager does, copy the file for the theme that you > are using (or default if it doesn't have one) to the same position in your > home directory and then open it in InkScape and modify it being careful to > maintain all the labels. I wonder why there isn't just one label for each > of the three images. > Great info. Thanks! So in my specific set of history & setups: 1) I no longer know what I was using at the time I started this post. When I first wrote this I thought the whole theme was just one KDE setting. I know understand that it has like 5-10 different parts, all potentially with the same or different names. I made a number of changes figuring this out and now have no way to go back to the exact problem I had originally. 2) I am now using, and pretty happy with: a) Window Decorations - Oxygen b) Cursor Theme - Oxygen Black c) Desktop Theme - Slim Glow d) Widget Style - Oxygen e) Colors - Probably Default or Oxygen but not sure f) Icons - Oxygen g) Emoticons - kde4 At this point those are the ones I know about. There may be more that influence how I see the environment. I don't know! :-) 3) Most pertinent, for this setup there doesn't seem to be a specific pager.svgz file, at least for the theme called slim-glow, so maybe I'm using the default or some file I haven't found yet. I've emerged inkscape so I can get familiar with the files when I find them. Again, thanks for the info. Quite interesting! Cheers, Mark ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
