Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Alan McKinnon <alan@××××××××××××××××.za>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror background has light and dark stripes
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:56:47
Message-Id: 200711161650.13066.alan@linuxholdings.co.za
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror background has light and dark stripes by Neil Bothwick
1 On Friday 16 November 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:27:31 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
3 > k
4 >
5 > > However, I find I have a very dark blue (almost black) background
6 > > where I'm used to light grey.... It's been so long since I
7 > > configured Konqueror from scratch I have no idea where to set this.
8 > > I've gone through kcontrol and Konqueror -> Settings and found
9 > > nothing.
10 >
11 > Try Kcontrol->Appearance & Themes->Colours (I now, it's a devious
12 > place to hide colour settings :) Select the last item in the Widget
13 > Colour popup, Alternate Background in Lists.
14
15 <sigh>
16
17 I'm going to revoke my own geek card. I obviously don't deserve to have
18 one anymore.
19
20 The *really* sad thing is, that when went to that selection, I
21 remembered that I had done all this before long ago ;-(
22
23 > I've no idea why this defaulted to such a strange choice, this has
24 > always been light-blue for me, including this brand new install.
25 > Maybe it's set in whatever theme you're using.
26
27 I'm not sure either how come, I copied over the ~/.kde from the old
28 machine (3.5.7) to this new one, most things have stayed the same but
29 not this setting. However, I did forget to copy over /usr/kde/3.5 -
30 maybe it was some default there.
31
32 Anyway, no matter, it's fixed now. Thanks for the pointer!
33
34 alan
35
36 --
37 Optimists say the glass is half full,
38 Pessimists say the glass is half empty,
39 Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be?
40
41 Alan McKinnon
42 alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za
43 +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five
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Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror background has light and dark stripes Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>