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Subject:    Re: K-ARTIST:Modifying the default icon schemes
From:       "luciash d' being" <luci () ground ! cz>
Date:       2003-02-01 22:31:32
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hi Antiphon,

sorry to disappoint you, but there is imho already this feature available 
since KDE 3.0 (maybe even since 2.0? i'm not sure.).
just try this in Control Center:
Appearance & Themes -> Icons -> Advanced -> Set Effect -> Colorize -> Color

et voila!

greetings,
luci

Dne Saturday 01 of February 2003 18:47 Antiphon . napsal(a):
> I thought of the following idea which would create the
> idea of icon color schemes. As some of you may
> remember, I am maintaining a green version of Crystal.
> I should not have to be doing this, however, because
> now that we are going to move to SVG, why not make it
> so that the user has the ability to choose what the
> basic icon colors will be. That is, an option in
> KControl to choose the primary color (in my case,
> emerald green), dark color, and light color. Maybe the
> intermediate shades could be determined in a fashion
> similar to the method used to calculate window
> titlebar gradients.
>
> I'm not a programmer but if we could do this, it would
> be something that AFAIK has never been done.
>
> Sure some people would make their desktops look like
> crap but imagine the possibilities: organizations
> could make all of their systems use the same style and
> icon colors (great for the corporate desktop or Net
> cafe), users would get more control (great for the
> blind or color-blind), and KDE would further
> distinguish itself as the Number 1 operating
> environment. It would also make themes more meaningful
> and convenient if the icon tints could be loaded along
> with them.
>
> The idea would be somewhat along the lines of what we
> already have, just make it so that certain hues will
> always be drawn the options the user has specified.
> But if we were to extend the existing paradigm of
> blanket colorizing of PNG images to partial colorizing
> of SVG, it'd be something never before done.
>
> Is this feasible?
>
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