Hi,
I have installed 4.5rc3 and wonder if it is possible to get back the old icons in System Tray. All (almost) icons (klipper, kmix, krandrtray, Battery Monitor widget, Device Notifier, ...) seem to have been replaced by new gray icons that only really work on the black oxygen background. The contrast is very low on my gray Aya background. Also the old colored icons looked much nicer in my opinion (especially kmix).
So is there a way to get back the old icon theme?
Regards, Lukas
On 07/27/2010 08:21 AM, Lukas Middendorf wrote:
Hi,
I have installed 4.5rc3 and wonder if it is possible to get back the old icons in System Tray. All (almost) icons (klipper, kmix, krandrtray, Battery Monitor widget, Device Notifier, ...) seem to have been replaced by new gray icons that only really work on the black oxygen background. The contrast is very low on my gray Aya background. Also the old colored icons looked much nicer in my opinion (especially kmix).
So is there a way to get back the old icon theme?
I believe this is by-design to make oxygen systray icons monochromatic, there have been several discussions/flames already on other kde lists.
I'm not aware of any practical ability to revert this (short of designing your own oxygen-like icon theme that reverts only these related icons).
-- Rex
A SC 4.5 snapshot in the openSUSE had broken artwork at some point. All icons were back to normal during that time.
That could mean that manually deleting the files could do the trick.
Markus
On Tuesday 27 July 2010 15:34:01 Rex Dieter wrote:
On 07/27/2010
08:21 AM, Lukas Middendorf wrote:
Hi,
I have
installed 4.5rc3 and wonder if it is possible to get
back the
old icons in System Tray.
All (almost) icons (klipper, kmix,
krandrtray, Battery
Monitor widget, Device Notifier, ...) seem
to have been
replaced by new gray icons that only really work
on the black
oxygen background. The contrast is very low on my
gray Aya
background. Also the old colored icons looked
much
nicer in my opinion (especially kmix).
So is
there a way to get back the
old icon theme?
I believe
this is by-design to make oxygen systray icons
monochromatic,
there have been several discussions/flames
already on other kde
lists.
I'm not aware of any practical ability to revert this
(short of
designing your own oxygen-like icon theme that reverts
only these
related icons).
-- Rex
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On 07/27/2010 08:34 AM, Rex Dieter wrote:
On 07/27/2010 08:21 AM, Lukas Middendorf wrote:
I have installed 4.5rc3 and wonder if it is possible to get back the old icons in System Tray.
I believe this is by-design to make oxygen systray icons monochromatic, there have been several discussions/flames already on other kde lists.
I'm not aware of any practical ability to revert this (short of designing your own oxygen-like icon theme that reverts only these related icons).
Some references,
http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.5_Feature_Plan "monochrome statusnotifier based systray icons support"
http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2010/04/system-tray-progress.html
http://www.notmart.org/index.php/Software/Small_goodies
http://hugo-kde.blogspot.com/2010/07/some-oxygen-screenshots-in-kde45.html
On Tuesday, July 27, 2010 15:21:50 Lukas Middendorf wrote:
Hi,
I have installed 4.5rc3 and wonder if it is possible to get back the old icons in System Tray. All (almost) icons (klipper, kmix, krandrtray, Battery Monitor widget, Device Notifier, ...) seem to have been replaced by new gray icons that only really work on the black oxygen background. The contrast is very low on my gray Aya background. Also the old colored icons looked much nicer in my opinion (especially kmix).
So is there a way to get back the old icon theme?
afaik there is no official way how to revert this "feature", <sarcasm>why should one want to remove that must-have icons? user does not need this option. Welcome to Gnom^wKDE world</sarcasm>
I don't care about new icons if I can opt-out from this feature. That's what I like about KDE - higher configurability, unfortunately this does not apply here
Anyway, I should stop complaining (sorry folks, I'm just depressed from the "no option" change). There is still hope because you can "turn this off" by removing monochromatic icon files. They live here:
/usr/share/kde4/apps/desktoptheme/default/icons/*.svgz
Michal
On 07/27/2010 09:26 AM, Michal Hlavinka wrote:
On Tuesday, July 27, 2010 15:21:50 Lukas Middendorf wrote:
Hi,
Anyway, I should stop complaining (sorry folks, I'm just depressed from the "no option" change). There is still hope because you can "turn this off" by removing monochromatic icon files. They live here:
/usr/share/kde4/apps/desktoptheme/default/icons/*.svgz
Michal
but removing the icons from that place didn't show icons for: - battery.svgz copy from /usr/share/kde4/apps/desktoptheme/default/widgets/battery-oxygen.svgz to /usr/share/kde4/apps/desktoptheme/default/icons/battery.svgz
- notification.svgz copy from /usr/share/kde4/apps/desktoptheme/slim-glow/icons/notification.svgz to /usr/share/kde4/apps/desktoptheme/default/icons/notification.svgz
- network.svgz as I use kde-plasma-networkmanagement seems which the icon is already monochromatic, so I didn't remove this icon. the knetworkmanager have a little of green color but I don't know if this icon can replace it
I leave preferences.svgz alone, at least I don't see where is used/displayed.
Gabriel
Gabriel Ramirez wrote on Thursday 29 July 2010:
but removing the icons from that place didn't show icons for:
- battery.svgz copy from
/usr/share/kde4/apps/desktoptheme/default/widgets/battery-oxygen.svgz to /usr/share/kde4/apps/desktoptheme/default/icons/battery.svgz
- notification.svgz copy from
/usr/share/kde4/apps/desktoptheme/slim-glow/icons/notification.svgz to /usr/share/kde4/apps/desktoptheme/default/icons/notification.svgz
Thanks for pointing out where I can find the originals
I leave preferences.svgz alone, at least I don't see where is used/displayed.
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