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Changing color settings for taskbar

shiver

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Wednesday, November 23rd 2005, 10:48pm

Changing color settings for taskbar

I'm using KDE 3.5 RC and I like the "Elegant" option to make the button tabs transparent as well as the rest of the kicker is. The problem is, I can't adjust the colors to my liking. I have a dark-colored background and unactive taskbar items look nice as shown here, since I changed Button Text to white.

But active items have a bolded, black font which makes them transparent against the background.

Changing Window Text to white in the Control Center cures the problem but then all menus are unreadable as I use a light grey color for them. Is there any way to set the colors for the kicker/taskbar separately? I'd prefer to set the color for active items white as well. Choosing "For Transparency" in the taskbar settings doesn't help much, it just adds faint grey edges to the text.

This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "shiver" (Nov 23rd 2005, 10:51pm)

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Thursday, December 8th 2005, 8:56am

RE: Changing color settings for taskbar

I've got the same problem but I have not found any relation of the taskbar text to the window title text. my active window title is white, however active windows in the taskbar are black.

my problem is that the inactive taskbar items are grey and against a transparent panel they are unreadable. until I solve this I have the taskbar set "for transparency" which really just outlines the text making it slightly easier to read.

There must be a way to set the taskbar text color - or is there not?

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Wednesday, January 18th 2006, 3:48pm

Same problem here. Hasn't anyone figured out how to fight this?
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