On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 05:39:28AM +0000, Duncan wrote: > Frank Steinmetzger posted on Sun, 27 Apr 2014 18:17:06 +0200 as excerpted: > > > I’m having a slight issue with my KDE on Gentoo. I enabled the > > application switcher theme with larger icons, as I dislike the default > > one ever since it started showing all non-selected icons in greyscale. > > Fellow gentooer. =:^) > > FWIW I had no idea what the default was, so I went thru all the switchers > and it seems only "informational" displays that grayscale-except-for- > selected-icon behavior. So you should be able to switch to any of the > others.
Uhm... I did. That’s the whole point of this mail; the one I switched to shows this problem. > And FWIW, I use "thumbnail" as my primary switcher, here, with > "flipswitch" as secondary. A scaled down version of the window itself is > a lot easier to use than the icon. Tho I do believe that requires > working/enabled OpenGL, but any of the several scaled-window switchers > really /really/ increase the usability of the switcher if they're > available, at least for me. That would technically work for me, but it introduces a bit of lag and I prefer icons, for they are faster to recognise than a miniature that is changing constantly. What I do use occasionally is the present windows (a.k.a. Exposé) effect because of its neat quick-filter. > > Some applications still appear with a small icon (i.e. 48×48 Pixel) in > > it. One of them is Konqueror (though that doesn’t bother me much), and > > more importantly Firefox. Initially I hoped it to be a packaging problem > > – the Gentoo package only installed a 48×48 icon into > > /usr/share/pixmaps. So I filed a bug about that.¹ > > > > You can read some more details in there (it’s not very long), because I > > did have big icons with Arch linux which shared its home partition with > > my Gentoo system. > > Interesting. > > FWIW, I'm running kde-live -9999 versions (from the kde overlay) of most > packages here(tho I've not updated for about 10 days I'd guess), so it's > very likely I'm running a newer kde than you. But I did experiment a bit > with the large-icons switcher, and have a large aurora icon here. (I have > the bindist flag on so get the generic aurora name and icons, not the > firefox branding.) Aurora is the not-yet-published beta, innit? I suppose then you’re using an out-of-tree ebuild, because it’s not in portage and you’re speaking of use flags. > But I do have a smaller icon for pan, which only ships the pixmap icon, > not the newer hicolor, etc, icons. So I see the problem, just not with > firefox. (I don't actually have konqueror installed so can't check what > size icon I get for it.) > […] > But I only saw that after restarting both of them, the takeaway being > that if you're doing any experimenting, be sure to restart both kwin and > the apps you're checking the icon with (restarting X/KDE should work too, > but isn't necessary), or you'll see the old size. > […] > Meanwhile, while you sort of checked the reverse of this by checking with > arch using the same homedir, you might wish to try either setting up a > new test-user temporarily, […] That is my usual approach at debugging weird behaviour, also to rule out any left-over cruft in my user’s config from previous KDE versions. (Albeit that this particular install and its home dir is practically new, I only synchronise select files and dirs between machines with unison). > If the problem is gone with all default settings (except for changing the > switcher to large icons, obviously), the problem is obviously in the user > settings, not in the system config. A new test user has the issue just the same. > If it's in your user settings you can then try bisecting the problem > down to an individual file […] > I did this in the past... I think it was a font rendering issue. For that I actually bisected my config dir by clearing it and then doing it Newton-style -- always adding half of the remaining files until the issue cropped and then removing half of what I last added until it was gone again. > If the problem is still there with all default user settings, then it > must be either the difference in versions (if any) between arch and > gentoo's kde, OR, perhaps, a distro-specific patch applied by one or the > other. Well as I said, I compared the package contents and the arch package just installed more icons (not only until 128×128, as Gentoo does these days). I might have to look at it again. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla’ Please do not share anything from, with or about me on any social network. A roman walks into a bar and raises two fingers: “Five beers please!”
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