Hello, amarok uses a helper class 'SvgTinter' to replace defined colors with system colors. This class is used to load the SVG-file that contains amarok's theme. The rendering of the elements is done by plasma. Since release 4.6 plasma allows SVG's to use different system colors too. This is done with help of CSS-styling. For more details see http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Plasma/Theme#Using_system_colors
I thought that amarok maybe want to switch to this system in some future releases. As a conversion of the current theme is very easy I just tried it. Here it is how it looks now: http://wstaw.org/m/2011/03/20/amarok-plasmaColored.png And to have something to compare, here is a screenshot with the current unchanged theme: http://wstaw.org/m/2011/03/20/amarok-selfColored.png The only difference is that the highlight-color is currently not provided by plasma and therfore I used the hover color from buttons for now. But it is no problem to allow this color in svg's in future releases of plasma. Here is the command I used to convert the theme: svgmod -a current-color-scheme ColorScheme-Background '#c0c0c0' \ -a current-color-scheme ColorScheme-Text '#000000' \ -a current-color-scheme ColorScheme-ViewBackground '#ffffff' \ -a current-color-scheme ColorScheme-ButtonHover '#6060ff' \ -a current-color-scheme ColorScheme-ButtonFocus '#a0a0c0' \ default-theme*.svg svgmod -c '#666765' ColorScheme-Background \ -c '#66ffff' ColorScheme-ButtonHover \ -c '#e8e8e8' ColorScheme-Background \ -c '#565755' ColorScheme-Background \ -c '#f0f0f0' ColorScheme-ViewBackground \ -c '#e0e0e0' ColorScheme-ViewBackground \ -c '#123456' ColorScheme-ButtonFocus \ -c '#010101' ColorScheme-Text \ default-theme*.svg You find svgmod at https://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/devtools/svgmod If you set the css-classes to the same colors as the elements currently use, the SvgTinter class still works for older plasma releases. This allows a smooth transition now, and SvgTinter can be removed somewhere in the future when amarok depends an plasma > 4.6. So what do you think? Any open questions? Greets Manuel Mommertz _______________________________________________ Amarok-devel mailing list Amarok-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok-devel
