Version: (using KDE 4.1.3) OS: Linux Installed from: Debian testing/unstable Packages There are a lot of options for changing colours, but if I want to change (say) the scroll bar, how do I know what one to pick? Especially since different themes use these colours differently. I'd love for there to be a tool which acts like this: 1. Click the tool; mouse cursor changes to a brush or colourwheel or something 2. Use this new cursor to click the item (on ANY kde app) that is the colour that you want to change 3. Colour Settings then highlights the appropriate colour in the list and opens the colour picker dialog for that item. I wanted to change my scrollbars and the background of Kopete away from a previous green theme to a custom theme, but I've not found which colour from the list affected either of these. I've eventually changed them all but that is not a good way to do it. I am not entirely certain that this is even possible. But it would be great. Thanks a lot, KDE people, you rock hard all the time!
To quote you, "Especially since different themes use these colours differently". This means your request is impossible to solve for the colors KCM, since it does not know how the style uses the palette colors. Color configuration would have to be part of the style's configuration.
I was hoping for something that would look 'behind the scenes' to see what is being used. Maybe it's just not possible.
I think this is an interesting idea, but I also believe it is not possible to implement in a way that would be satisfactory. Besides that I believe it is not technically possible at the moment, I can see where one can argue this feature is only half-baked unless you can click on text in kate, or a window running over remote X. Sorry. (That said, if someone comes up with a brilliant patch, I'd be happy to have a look...)
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