Got task switcher color icons back

Patrick Boutilier boutilpj at ednet.ns.ca
Thu Dec 20 14:04:13 UTC 2012


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-tab-task-switcher-in-kde
>
>
> 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. :-)


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