Re: Got task switcher color icons back

[Patrick Boutilier]

On 12/20/2012 04:24 AM, Gene Smith wrote:
>  I have been trying off and on for some time to fix the alt-tab
> "layout
>  based switcher" in compact view to show color on the icons listed. At
>  some point (kde 4.8?) they became all gray making it hard to tell one
>  from the other. I could find no configuation option that affected this.
>
>  Then I found this article with a simple 2 line patch to 2 files that
>  fixes the problem. It is here:
>
>
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/134183/any-way-to-get-colored-icons-in-alt...
>
>
>  In case the link goes away, the patch is attached.
>
>  Just edit the two files in /usr/share/kde4 (as root), log out and back
>  in to kde and you have the nice color icons again when you do alt-tab in
>  compact or informative mode.
>
>  I am running f16 with kde 4.8.5.
>
>  -gene 
<snip>


In KDE 4.9.x the files are 
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kwin/tabbox/compact/contents/ui/main.qml and 
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kwin/tabbox/informative/contents/ui/main.qml

compact one already has the fix in it but informative doesn't. :-)