[SOLVED] Libreoffice toolbar colour scheme -- too faint

Is there any way to change the colours LibreOffice uses for toolbar backgrounds or the highlight drawn around active buttons? I'm not sure if there's something wonky on my system, but active/set buttons look almost indistinguishable from non-set ones. E.g. here's a screen shot of my toolbar:
Can *you* tell at a quick glance that the text the cursor is in is bold and left-aligned? I sure can't. I've checked this on two different monitors, so I don't think it's a colour balance issue either -- any ideas on how to change this?
I've already tried:
- poking around in Tools > Options > LibreOffice > Appearance and View -- nothing in here seems able to change the toolbar colours. Even setting the "high contrast" icon scheme (which is really ugly, btw) does not change the lack of contrast around 'active' buttons.
- OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome and OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=kde -- these change the icon scheme LibreOffice uses, but the toolbar colours remain the same (or maybe get very slightly lighter?)
- the openoffice-dark-gtk-fix.sh script
~Felix.
Last edited by thetrivialstuff (2012-01-07 21:38:51)

OK, I've discovered that installing libreoffice-gnome (apparently the default is equivalent to libreoffice-kde) fixes this by making libreoffice look gnome-like:
...But that leaves a new problem, because the gnome theme's UI elements are somewhat bigger. On my netbook every bit of screen real estate counts (especially vertical), so I decided to put all the buttons I actually use onto one toolbar. (I first tried the UI scaling option in Options > LibreOffice > View, but that also scales the document fonts so that's no good.)
I could still save even more screen space by hacking the KDE-themed LibreOffice UI (the relevant files appear to be /usr/lib/libreoffice/basis3.4/program/{fps_gnome.uno.so,libvclplug_gtkli.so,ucpgio1.uno.so}), but I'm happy with what I've got for now.
Now for my next trick, I'm going to change my Opera skin so that I can see from colour alone which tab is the active one...
~Felix.

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[SOLVED] Libreoffice toolbar colour scheme -- too faint

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