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ninjai117

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Registered: 2011-08-23

Posts: 26

[SOLVED] KDE QT4 applications light grey font

I have an issue where all my QT5 applications look fine, but QT4 applications have a light, hard to read, grey font. I don't know how to change it.  I've tried using qtconfig-qt4 to no avail.  Here's an image of the problem:

Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure k3b is a QT4 application because it shows up in ~/.config/Trolltech.conf

In any event, according to this, in a KDE5 environment, QT4 applications will mimic QT5 applications.  This should give me a nice readable black font.

qtconfig-qt4 looks correct.  But not my actual QT4 applications.

Anything else I can check?  I'm not sure if it's important, but the link I posted above mentions /etc/xdg/Trolltech.conf as the main are for configuring qt looks, and I don't seem to have that file on my system.

Last edited by ninjai117 (2016-08-07 22:19:35)

Rog131

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Registered: 2015-08-23

Posts: 90

Re: [SOLVED] KDE QT4 applications light grey font

What kind of system do you have ?

At here, with the KDE plasma desktop (KF5/Plasma 5) the KDE 4 applications are reading the color information from the ~/.kde4/share/config/kdeglobals.

With the Breeze color scheme the K3b tip of the day is looking:

Full image: http://imgur.com/7Y51ghk

The K3b tip of the day is using 'ForegroundNormal' (window) color from the ~/.kde4/share/config/kdeglobals.

Full image: http://imgur.com/KT19eXe

ninjai117

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Registered: 2011-08-23

Posts: 26

Re: [SOLVED] KDE QT4 applications light grey font

Hot damn, thank you so much! I've asked in IRC several times and nobody came up with this.

I just changed ForegroundNormal to 255,0,0 and it's a nice black font now.

What GUI application changes these values?  I'm mystified as to why something like qtconfig-qt4 doesn't update these values.