Hi Bernd,

Konsole uses the standard KDE 4 look and feel for tabs, so your problem presumably applies to all applications using tabs.  I agree that active/inactive tabs are not easy to distinguish with the default KDE 4 settings.

You can change the widget style in System Settings.  Go to (K-Menu) -> Computer -> System Settings -> Appearance -> Style and change the style to alter the look and feel of controls (buttons) etc. in KDE.  Under the Appearance section there is also a Colors section which allows you to change the color scheme and contrast used in KDE applications.

Hi Bernd,

If you are not sure what other control styles to try, I would recommend 'Cleanlooks' which draws a clear blue bar under the active tab.

Hello Robert,

thanks for your help. I only have the small problem, that systemsettings doesn't provide the "Style" option on my system. My basic desktop is kde3 and I only updated a few applications to kde4. Some time ago I updated everything to kde3, but this was running so instable, that I probably would have written bug reports all day ;) So I had to go back to kde3.
With the complete kde4 desktop systemsettings did provide by far more options than it does now.

You don't know which settings I could change in a config file, do you?

Thanks again,
Bernd

PS: K-Menu also doesn't has a "Computer" menu here. In general I also don't use it much, so calling "systemsettings" from the konsole is much more easy for me ;)

PPS: Why isn't it called ksystemsysettings?

> You don't know which settings I could change in a config file, do you? 

The widget style is set by the 'widgetStyle' key in the [General] section of $KDEHOME/share/config/kdeglobals.  Change that from 'oxygen' to 'cleanlooks' or 'plastique'

If the $KDEHOME variable is not set, it defaults to either ~/.kde4 or ~/.kde (depending on your distribution)

>  PS: K-Menu also doesn't has a "Computer" menu here. 

I was referring to the KDE 4 menu.  If you are using the KDE 3 desktop then you won't see a 'Computer' tab.

> Some time ago I updated everything to kde3, but this was running so instable, 
> that I probably would have written bug reports all day

Was that with KDE 4.0 or KDE 4.1?  The desktop itself has improved quite a lot in KDE 4.1 so I'd urge you to give that a try if you have the time.

I hope this message doesn't come twice now, but I so far I don't see it in the 
http interface.

On Saturday 05 July 2008, Robert Knight wrote:
> > Some time ago I updated everything to kde3, but this was running so
> > instable, that I probably would have written bug reports all day
>
> Was that with KDE 4.0 or KDE 4.1?  The desktop itself has improved quite a
> lot in KDE 4.1 so I'd urge you to give that a try if you have the time.


The latest I tried was 4.0.82, now debian-experimental has .84, but I will for 
now only update single applications and report their bugs (too busy with 
other tasks for a complete kde update).

Cheers,
Bernd

And another answer not yet shown in the web interface :(

On Saturday 05 July 2008, Robert Knight wrote:
> The widget style is set by the 'widgetStyle' key in the [General] section
> of $KDEHOME/share/config/kdeglobals.  Change that from 'oxygen' to
> 'cleanlooks' or 'plastique'


Thanks, I changed it from 'plastique' to 'cleanlooks' and now the active tab 
has a blue underscore. The kde3 style still is better, IMHO,

>
> If the $KDEHOME variable is not set, it defaults to either ~/.kde4 or
> ~/.kde (depending on your distribution)


Don't worry about me, I know my systemfs config directories ;) With kde4 from 
debian-experimental it is ~/.kde4.

Thanks again,
Bernd

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