On 6/6/25 2:28 PM, William Morder via tde-users wrote:
I will ask the stupid question, which you have already tried, I feel sure, from what you say. But ...
When I created my own color scheme, I went through Trinity Control Center > Appearance & Themes > Colors I will assume that you do the same.
Then, I go through every single entry, piecemeal, don't skip any, and adjust the colors. Sometimes I fiddled round with it all day. However, that was just the first couple days or maybe weeks of KDE3, once I had made the jump over to GNU/Linux.
Maybe every few years I go in adjust the brightness or hue or whatever, to make it legible on different backgrounds, etc.; but I have hardly changed a thing since then, and have used this same personal color scheme on every KDE3 or TDE, across 3 or 4 desktop computers, and maybe 5 or 6 laptops; as well as portable versions of my machine, which I have installed on a flash drive. I keep all my old versions, too, as sometimes it's fun to revisit them, to watch how the colors change slightly through the years ... sort of like watching the leaves turn shades.
My guess would be that you need to go through that process again, step by step. Maybe you missed one? Otherwise, it makes no sense by comparison with my own machines and experience. I can change the menu color to whatever I want, and get the font in foregrounds to be legible.
Maybe you have done this already, though, in which case I, like everybody else, am stumped.
I have been hacking my computers since the 1980s. Hacking is natural to me. I never have been good at rolling over wetting myself accepting upstream defaults or design. While defaults tend to satisfy many users, I'm not one of them. Likely one of the reasons I was attracted to KDE back in the early days rather than the more restricted GNOME.
That said, I could well be overlooking something obvious that is not intuitive to me. I admit that sometimes I play the role of grumpy old man a little too well, which has a tendency of hiding the obvious right in front of me.
This is one of those persnickety problems that I'll have to keep revisiting with the hope that one day my mind is right to see the obvious. At the moment though, I don't see how the menu color can be changed without affecting the window background color in all other windows.