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When evolution is run under KDE the color scheme is not good; the color of the selected message is barely different from that of unselected messages. Various themes (available from System Settings->Application Appearance->GTK+ Appearance) produce various color schemes. The one I like best is Adwaita, whose color scheme I like but whose widgets are less attractive than the ones in the default theme oxygen-gtk. So...<BR>
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I copied the oxygen-gtk theme into my local folder (~/.local), where GTK+ Appearance finds it and edited gtkrc to look like Adwaita's so far as colors go. The key part of the edited file appears at the bottom of this posting. I enabled it using GTK+ Appearance; unfortunately there's no change in the color scheme. What have I done wrong?<BR>
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<TT># Edited by Jonathan Ryshpan on Thu Sep 18 PDT 2014</TT><BR>
<TT># to use the color scheme from the Adwaita theme.</TT><BR>
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<TT># The following method is deprecated and reportedly no longer functions.</TT><BR>
<TT># gtk-color-scheme = "base_color:#FFFFFF\nfg_color:#000000\ntooltip_fg_color:#FFFFFF\nselected_bg_color:#4A90D9\nselected_fg_color:#FFFFFF\ntext_color:#313739\nbg_color:#EDEDED\ninsensitive_bg_color:#F4F4F2\ntooltip_bg_color:#343434"</TT><BR>
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<TT># oxygen's generic style options</TT><BR>
<TT>style "oxygen-default"</TT><BR>
<TT>{</TT><BR>
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<TT># Colors</TT><BR>
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<TT> bg[NORMAL] = #4A90D9</TT><BR>
<TT> bg[PRELIGHT] = shade (1.02, #4A90D9)</TT><BR>
<TT> bg[SELECTED] = #4A90D9</TT><BR>
<TT> bg[INSENSITIVE] = #4A90D9</TT><BR>
<TT> bg[ACTIVE] = shade (0.9, #4A90D9)</TT><BR>
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<TT> fg[NORMAL] = #313739</TT><BR>
<TT> fg[PRELIGHT] = #FFFFFF</TT><BR>
<TT> fg[SELECTED] = #4A90D9</TT><BR>
<TT> fg[INSENSITIVE] = darker (#4A90D9)</TT><BR>
<TT> fg[ACTIVE] = #FFFFFF</TT><BR>
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<TT> text[NORMAL] = #313739</TT><BR>
<TT> text[PRELIGHT] = #313739</TT><BR>
<TT> text[SELECTED] = #4A90D9</TT><BR>
<TT> text[INSENSITIVE] = darker (#4A90D9)</TT><BR>
<TT> text[ACTIVE] = #4A90D9</TT><BR>
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<TT> base[NORMAL] = #FFFFFF</TT><BR>
<TT> base[PRELIGHT] = shade (0.95, #4A90D9)</TT><BR>
<TT> base[SELECTED] = #4A90D9</TT><BR>
<TT> base[INSENSITIVE] = #4A90D9</TT><BR>
<TT> base[ACTIVE] = shade (0.9, #4A90D9)</TT><BR>
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<TT># Original text resumes</TT><BR>
<TT>...</TT><BR>
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