New low contrast icons in 4.5

[Lukas Middendorf]

Hi,

I have installed 4.5rc3 and wonder if it is possible to get back the old
icons in System Tray.
All (almost) icons (klipper, kmix, krandrtray, Battery
Monitor widget, Device Notifier, ...) seem to have been replaced by new gray
icons that only really work on the black oxygen background. The contrast is
very low on my gray Aya background.
Also the old colored icons looked much
nicer in my opinion (especially kmix).

So is there a way to get back the
old icon theme?

Regards,
Lukas

[Rex Dieter]

On 07/27/2010 08:21 AM, Lukas Middendorf wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have installed 4.5rc3 and wonder if it is possible to get back the old
> icons in System Tray.
> All (almost) icons (klipper, kmix, krandrtray, Battery
> Monitor widget, Device Notifier, ...) seem to have been replaced by new gray
> icons that only really work on the black oxygen background. The contrast is
> very low on my gray Aya background.
> Also the old colored icons looked much
> nicer in my opinion (especially kmix).
>
> So is there a way to get back the
> old icon theme?

I believe this is by-design to make oxygen systray icons monochromatic, 
there have been several discussions/flames already on other kde lists.

I'm not aware of any practical ability to revert this (short of 
designing your own oxygen-like icon theme that reverts only these 
related icons).

-- Rex

[Markus Slopianka]

A SC 4.5 snapshot in the openSUSE had broken artwork at some point.
All icons were back to normal during that time.

That could mean
that manually deleting the files could do the trick.

Markus

On
Tuesday 27 July 2010 15:34:01 Rex Dieter wrote:
> On 07/27/2010

08:21 AM, Lukas Middendorf wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have

installed 4.5rc3 and wonder if it is possible to get
> > back the

old icons in System Tray.
> > All (almost) icons (klipper, kmix,

krandrtray, Battery
> > Monitor widget, Device Notifier, ...) seem

to have been
> > replaced by new gray icons that only really work

on the black
> > oxygen background. The contrast is very low on my

gray Aya
> > background.
> > Also the old colored icons looked

much
> > nicer in my opinion (especially kmix).
> >
> > So is

there a way to get back the
> > old icon theme?
>
> I believe

this is by-design to make oxygen systray icons
> monochromatic,

there have been several discussions/flames
> already on other kde

lists.
> I'm not aware of any practical ability to revert this

(short of
> designing your own oxygen-like icon theme that reverts

only these
> related icons).
>
> -- Rex

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[Rex Dieter]

On 07/27/2010 08:34 AM, Rex Dieter wrote:
> On 07/27/2010 08:21 AM, Lukas Middendorf wrote:
> > I have installed 4.5rc3 and wonder if it is possible to get back the old
> > icons in System Tray.
> I believe this is by-design to make oxygen systray icons monochromatic,
> there have been several discussions/flames already on other kde lists.
>
> I'm not aware of any practical ability to revert this (short of
> designing your own oxygen-like icon theme that reverts only these
> related icons).

Some references,

http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.5_Feature_Plan
"monochrome statusnotifier based systray icons support"

http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2010/04/system-tray-progress.html

http://www.notmart.org/index.php/Software/Small_goodies

http://hugo-kde.blogspot.com/2010/07/some-oxygen-screenshots-in-kde45.html

[Michal Hlavinka]

On Tuesday, July 27, 2010 15:21:50 Lukas Middendorf wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have installed 4.5rc3 and wonder if it is possible to get back the old
> icons in System Tray.
> All (almost) icons (klipper, kmix, krandrtray, Battery
> Monitor widget, Device Notifier, ...) seem to have been replaced by new gray
> icons that only really work on the black oxygen background. The contrast is
> very low on my gray Aya background.
> Also the old colored icons looked much
> nicer in my opinion (especially kmix).
>
> So is there a way to get back the
> old icon theme?

afaik there is no official way how to revert this "feature", <sarcasm>why 
should one want to remove that must-have icons? user does not need this
option. Welcome to Gnom^wKDE world</sarcasm>

I don't care about new icons if I can opt-out from this feature. That's what I like 
about KDE - higher configurability, unfortunately this does not apply here

Anyway, I should stop complaining (sorry folks, I'm just depressed from the 
"no option" change). There is still hope because you can "turn this off" by removing 
monochromatic icon files. They live here:

/usr/share/kde4/apps/desktoptheme/default/icons/*.svgz

Michal

[Gabriel Ramirez]

On 07/27/2010 09:26 AM, Michal Hlavinka wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 27, 2010 15:21:50 Lukas Middendorf wrote:
> > Hi,
> Anyway, I should stop complaining (sorry folks, I'm just depressed from the
> "no option" change). There is still hope because you can "turn this off" by removing
> monochromatic icon files. They live here:
>
> /usr/share/kde4/apps/desktoptheme/default/icons/*.svgz
>
> Michal

but removing the icons from that place didn't show icons for:
- battery.svgz copy from
/usr/share/kde4/apps/desktoptheme/default/widgets/battery-oxygen.svgz
to
/usr/share/kde4/apps/desktoptheme/default/icons/battery.svgz

- notification.svgz copy from
/usr/share/kde4/apps/desktoptheme/slim-glow/icons/notification.svgz
to
/usr/share/kde4/apps/desktoptheme/default/icons/notification.svgz

- network.svgz as I use kde-plasma-networkmanagement seems which the 
icon is already monochromatic, so I didn't remove this icon. the 
knetworkmanager have a little of green color but I don't know if this 
icon can replace it

I leave preferences.svgz alone, at least I don't see where is 
used/displayed.

Gabriel

[Lukas Middendorf]

Gabriel Ramirez wrote on Thursday 29 July 2010:
> but removing the icons from that place didn't show icons for:
> battery.svgz copy from
>
> /usr/share/kde4/apps/desktoptheme/default/widgets/battery-oxygen.svgz
> to
> /usr/share/kde4/apps/desktoptheme/default/icons/battery.svgz
> notification.svgz copy from
>
> /usr/share/kde4/apps/desktoptheme/slim-glow/icons/notification.svgz
> to
> /usr/share/kde4/apps/desktoptheme/default/icons/notification.svgz

Thanks for pointing out where I can find the originals
> I leave preferences.svgz alone, at least I don't see where is
> used/displayed.

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