KDE 4.5: tray icons theme

Hi,
Does a tray icons theme exist as a separate entity? If it does, how am I supposed to change it?

Teho wrote:
pressh wrote:I don't oppose monochrome icons per se, it just looks too ugly when some random colored icon is in between.
That shouldn't happen in KDE, the icons are forced in certain order; Normal apps, static icons. The whole idea was to differentiate those two, as far as I know.
That's exactly right Teho. The monochrome and colored icons do not get mixed together, but having a colored set of icons adjacent to a monochrome set still looks a little odd. In any case, my main complaint with the monochrome icons is that they detract from overall usability. Colored icons make it easier to distinguish one app from another. So, for me at least, the new icons look nice; they're just less useful.
By the way, I really don't like the way the system tray opens a pop-up menu for hidden icons. It sucked when Windows added that "feature" and it sucks no less when a FOSS desktop copies the idea. Since the system tray is just a plasmoid, you'd think we could still have the option of either the old style or new style as distinctly separate widgets for the panel. Why do they completely replace one with another?

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FrozenFox wrote:To do this without affecting the icons elsewhere in the system is probably impossible without editing the source code to the sys tray plasmoid/widget and adding in a color filter of some sort. If you don't know how to program this in, you're probably out of luck. Would be interested in someone else proving me wrong though.
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http://i.imagehost.org/0045/snapshot16.png
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Last edited by absolutevoid (2009-11-05 18:31:36)

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