On Saturday 07 June 2025 10:02:50 Darrell Anderson via tde-users wrote:
On 6/7/25 4:35 AM, William Morder via tde-users wrote:
Get this, the only choice available where the hue matches my own menu is called "Button Background"; I wouldn't imagine that a menu is a button, but maybe it's because users can click on the icon, and the menu pops up?
Anyway, that seems to be the culprit; which leads to the next question: What is the color of the text in the menu? Sure enough, it's called "Button Text".
You will no doubt want to experiment more, until you find your own sweet spots, where everything both looks freakin coooool and is also legible and useful. But at least there may be a start for you to solve that problem.
I confirm the menu color seems rooted in Button Background. Some quick tinkering with a black button background and white button text creates one butt ugly menu as well as affecting all button backgrounds in all other windows.
That's probably why I settled on brownish backgrounds, dark greys, mostly with yellowish-gold texts; only a few are black backgrounds with white text.
Possibly exhaustive experimenting might find a cure.
Yes, I did say that (as far as I can recall) I spent at least days, maybe even weeks, before I reached my own color scheme. It has been a lot of years now, but that's exactly the sort of problem I was having: to find just the right shades, that work well in different places on the system.
You will notice -- assuming your system is like mine -- that some of the borders, e.g., in Kmail, as I'm looking at it now, are the same hues as that "button background" and "button text". There is probably no way except to go through and keep experimenting, line by line.
Those numbers in the thememgr.kcsrc file, e.g.: buttonBackground=68,59,51 buttonForeground=251,187,10 refer to RGB, I believe.
Bill