Created attachment 116279 [details] most color schemes have poor contrast like this one hover the mouse over a KCM-systemd line so the log appears, say of a particular service. of the standard 10 colour schemes, most will have very poor contrast, the log is unreadable (light color on another light color). Only the "steel" scheme works OK. Do we need better schemes or better SystemD ?
Probably better systemd KCM; looks like it's not choosing the right colors.
scheme "elementary Luna" from GNHS works, most other schemes are very poor in contrast.
if I could, I'd vote this up. Would be nice if it could get fixed after all this time.
I recompiled systemdgenie from sources in Sept. of 2021. It now does follow the system color scheme of KDE. The binary provided by Manjaro does, however, not follow the system colour scheme. As the compile goes pretty smoothly, this probably the quickest way to obtain usability of systemdgenie. Not sure about the KCM thingy.
Corrections of my above error report: The binary of systemdgenie version 0.99.0 actually does follow a users colour scheme, such as the one binary "systemdgenie" provided by the Manjaro distro in 2021. If launched as sudo /sbin/systemdgenie that user is root. The color scheme of user "root" is not accessible via non-root KDE-system-settings GUI. So it would be nice if the app would force a good, high-contrast color scheme for the user "root" or be otherwise user-friendly to resolve the issue of low contrast of root’s default colour scheme.
until such time, one can work around the poor contrast by copying manually 2 good "kdeglobals" with the scheme "elementary Luna" from GNHS activated to below the /root/ directory, namely as target files: file:///root/.kde4/share/config/kdeglobals as well as file:///root/.config/kdeglobals containg a line like this ColorScheme=elementaryLuna worked for me with ColorScheme=WhiteSur too while at Big Sur, CA
ideally, the systemdgenie binary would perform this "kdeglobals" customization to overcome the poor contrast default colorscheme preset. Would greatly improve usability!
This application is no longer maintained, sorry.