… the KDE hover text. I’ve Googled and meandered KDE docs and been unable to find how to change white text on very light gray background. Usually, I can highlight such text, but you cannot for hover text. There really ought to be some minimum contrast setting for any text anywhere, but here I just need to learn what setting to change so I can read that hover text. The applications are several, but for the moment I am trying to use ufraw and the tool icon explanations are all in unreadable hover text. Help, please? Thanks!
bkorb wrote:
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> … the KDE hover text. I’ve Googled and meandered KDE docs and been
> unable to find how to change white text on very light gray background.
> Usually, I can highlight such text, but you cannot for hover text.
> There really ought to be some minimum contrast setting for any text
> anywhere, but here I just need to learn what setting to change so I can
> read that hover text. The applications are several, but for the moment
> I am trying to use ufraw and the tool icon explanations are all in
> unreadable hover text. Help, please? Thanks!
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You probably have to change the setting below
System Settings>Application Appearance>Colours>Colours>Tool Tip Text
You probably have to change the setting below
System Settings>Application Appearance>Colours>Colours>Tool Tip Text
I am certain you are correct.
sys-menu->settings->configure-desktop->desktop-behavior->…
nope, not there
sys-menu->settings->configure-desktop->Application-style->widget-style->…
Nope. I have to find that setting. For KDE. On openSUSE 4.2. I don’t have anything called, “System Settings”.
sys-menu->settings->configure-desktop
yields a window saying “System Settings” in the title, but searching for “Application Appearance” yields nothing. “tool” gets me to “Application Style” and “Desktop Behavior” and neither of these have anything like “Tool Tip”.
Be sure you use systemsetting5 since there may be two the older one for legacy KDE4 apps
Yep. Running “systemsetting5” directly gets me to the same application. Searching for “application” highlights “Application Style” and “Shortcuts” and “Applications”. “Application Appearance” yields nothing. “tool” gets “Font” “Application Style” and “Desktop Behavior”. “tooltip” only gets “Desktop Behavior” to turn on or off tool tips. Searching every entry under all of the highlighted setting folders yields nothing at all like “Tool Tip Text”. In the end:
$ find ~/.kde4 -type f -print0|xargs -0 grep -E -i ‘tool.{0,1}tip’
got me to
vi ~/.kde4/share/config/kdeglobals
but there ought to be a better way. Anyway, my problem now has been reduced to deciphering:
[Colors:Tooltip]
BackgroundAlternate=196,224,255
BackgroundNormal=24,21,19
DecorationFocus=58,167,221
DecorationHover=110,214,255
ForegroundActive=255,128,224
ForegroundInactive=137,136,135
ForegroundLink=88,172,255
ForegroundNegative=191,3,3
ForegroundNeutral=176,128,0
ForegroundNormal=231,253,255
ForegroundPositive=0,110,40
ForegroundVisited=150,111,232
systemsettings -> color -> colors -> color set -> tooltip
The “Alternate Background” was set to a very pale gray and the “Normal Text” was slightly off-white. Since I defaulted all my KDE preferences, someone selected that as a default. Anyway, someone got me there on the KDE forum since you cannot search successfully for “tooltip”. Thank you for your help!