After some experimentation I can definitely adjust the scroll bars but along
with that a lot of the other widgets are also set to the same color. Probably
what needs to happen is to extend the theming to allow for more granular (my
personal wish) setting or just a "hard look" at the themes and their use of
colors for things like scroll bars and other issues. The QtCreator UX is
generally pretty good but there is always room for improvement.
I may go down the path of compiling QtCreator myself and messing with a style
sheet for the scroll bars just to see what damage I can do to the UX. __
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Mike Jackson
On 1/22/19, 5:56 PM, "Aleksey Kontsevich" <tantr...@ya.ru> wrote:
Yes, good if this will be fixed. Now Scroll bars, checkboxes, other
controls are very small, inconvenient and terrible. Distribution built QtC have
much better look.
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Best regards,
Aleksey
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23.01.2019, 00:48, "Michael Jackson" <mike.jack...@bluequartz.net>:
> Yes, that does help. It gives me some starting points to experiment.
>
> --
> Mike Jackson
>
> On 1/22/19, 11:17 AM, "Eike Ziller" <eike.zil...@qt.io> wrote:
>
> From QFusionStyle drawing of e.g. QStyle::SC_ScrollBarAddLine I’d
think that that uses QPalette::Button as the base color.
>
> Qt Creator’s themes (can?) set that, e.g.
share/qtcreator/themes/dark.creatortheme sets
>
> PaletteButton=shadowBackground
>
> (where “shadowBackground” is set to “ff232323” near the top of the
file).
>
> There are also the flags DerivePaletteFromTheme and
ApplyThemePaletteGlobally which influence if and how the palette in the theme
is actually applied, not sure what does what exactly.
> The default theme, flat.creatortheme doesn’t seem to set the
application palette, which probably means that it uses whatever Qt sets as the
palette for Qt applications. (Which is why it might make a difference against
which Qt you compile Qt Creator in that case, I suppose).
>
> I hope that gives you some useful pointers :)
>
> Br, Eike
>
> > On Jan 22, 2019, at 16:16, Michael Jackson
<mike.jack...@bluequartz.net> wrote:
> >
> > It has been a long time since I rummaged through the QtCreator
code, code I get an assist and point be to where the Styles/Themes are either
loaded or applied? Or the name of the subclass that scroll handles/widgets are?
I just have a hard time believing that I have to completely change linux
distributions or window managers just to get a different color scroll handles.
We change the colors on our own application and those changes are reflected in
the application. QtCreator does it because when you change themes, you get
different scroll handle colors. I just trying to track down which setting in
the theme file actually effects those colors. Thank you to anyone that could
help my old eyes out.
> >
> > --
> > Mike Jackson
> >
> > From: Cristian Adam <cristian.a...@gmail.com>
> > Date: Monday, January 14, 2019 at 3:51 PM
> > To: Michael Jackson <mike.jack...@bluequartz.net>
> > Cc: qt-creator <qt-creator@qt-project.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Qt-creator] Adjusting styles of QtCreator
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 9:08 PM Michael Jackson
<mike.jack...@bluequartz.net> wrote:
> >> Interesting that the only solutions that I have heard is basically
to “change your entire desktop”. Clearly the scroll handles are being styled
through the .theme file because changing themes will restyle the scroll
handles/background. I was hoping for an easier answer such as “.. adjust the
following key:value in the theme file”. I guess I have to load up an entirely
new desktop environment. Seems a bit over-kill but since Linux is not my full
time desktop I guess this is the norm?
> >>
> >
> > You will need to have a build of Qt Creator against your
distribution's Qt installation.
> >
> > Ubuntu 16.04 LTS comes with Qt Creator 3.5.1 though, which is a bit
dated. Building the latest Qt Creator on Ubuntu 16.04 doesn't help either,
since it comes with Qt 5.5.1, which is too old.
> >
> > If I think about it, the "easiest" way would be to compile a QStyle
for the same version of Qt that Qt Creator uses, then using the "-style"
command line parameter to enable it.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Cristian.
> >
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