 Making your own color scheme is actually pretty easy and pretty cool to do especially because the new color scheme will take effect on all KDE applications but also the GNOME one as well if you're reusing them. So let's go actually see how it's done. Of course you open up system settings. You don't need any code experience. We have made a GUI to do exactly this. There is this colors inside of Appearance KCM and if you open this up or my first suggestion would be to start with a color scheme that you kind of like already and then modify that one to actually add a new one from scratch. I wouldn't really recommend it. You would have indeed to go tweak the files but in this case you don't even have to. Of course if you want to edit the accent color or in the color scheme itself you need to tell it to use the accent color from the color scheme otherwise your custom accent color will get ignored but maybe that's fine for you. And then let's start as an example with the simple breeze light and see how it changes. So the easiest thing also let me show you this one. You can get new color schemes for free. If you just press here and I would suggest must download it first. There are lots of potentially very good ones and you can like review them. There's also a contributor on that explains how to upload them. Maybe I'll do a video on that too one day but this is not that day. And then of course let's see how to edit them. So the whole editing stuff happens in K color scheme editor. There is as far as I know a new component to edit color schemes in the work. It has been in the world for quite some time at this point. I don't know if it will be released anytime soon but for now K color scheme is good enough for us. So we can see first of all that there are three tabs. The first one is options. We can easily see what this one is. So there's shading which as the tooltip is telling us. Shading of the frame and lighting through the effects. I don't think that this will interest us for the most part. If you're thinking about like shadows that's actually part of the decoration. So go see that one instead of this one. And then here apply effects to inactive windows. Here's different color for inactive selections. This will interest us. We'll see later where. And also shade certain columns in list. Probably most of these options we can just safely ignore. And then there's this one. So again we can decide for the visible things to like darken them and how much to darken them. You can we can also shade them like this as you can see. Also change the color pretty much anything that you would like tint. Let's go with tint. Like to do anything. Now I would suggest not changing again the defaults but if you want there's this option as you know KDE is very customizable. And then there's this. Now you do get this little example and it's very important to notice this color set thing. So in here you do have these options which are common colors view window button selection tooltip complementary header. What does this mean? Well for each of these you'll get all of the related colors. Let me this and common colors are the common one from I think most of the other color sets. I'm not sure about that but if you do switch to the other ones you can see that each one has its own thing. So quick explanation. So let's start with view. What is the view? So if you open up an application like say dolphin you will get many areas inside of it. And the main one is this white one at the center which is white with a blue line circle around it. And you'll also see this in many other applications that you have like sidebars and then the central content which is whiter. And that's the view like the view is the center central content is whiter and we can see here that indeed is color normal background is pretty light. It's actually white. I didn't know that. And you can pick all of the related colors for just the view the background the alternate background for I think like when you dolphin you have lists and the list will let me show you switch between the main one and the alternate one. I think I'm not 100% sure of that but you can see here it's switching between white and gray white gray and so on. And then there is the text when it's normal when it's not active active then link text visited text. These are pretty much self explanatory. There's also focus decoration and hover decoration and well let me make an example. You see that here I have the K color scheme editor and I do have here on top this white thing and here this white thing with the list of colors. This is a view around it. You can see again the blue border and I think that the blue border should be coming from this blue focus decoration. Let's make this I don't know pink as an example hover decoration. Let's also make this pink and then there is window window which you can see is a bit darker. It's not quite white is well the sidebars and what is not the view again we always take dolphin as an inspiration and it always opens up in the wrong spot. It's this the sidebar the status bar at the bottom the borders it's everything that isn't the view custom components like the console here or the header which is here on top. So you can choose clicking here to make it I don't know yellow let's make this yellow and you will see that as soon as you apply this color scheme everything will be yellow except for the views and the headers. And again for all things in the window text decorations stuff all sort of things. Next one is the button and again the background of the button the alternate background of the button which I'm guessing is this selected status. It's not selected but I don't remember the name exactly but you understood what I mean the default option that will happen if you press enter normal text in a tiff text. So in theory you could even customize the buttons to have some text color like green and then the view to have another text color like red and then the window like here. This text is inside of the window to have another color I don't know blue. And then there is selection which is of course what you actually select like I don't know in Kate and Kate I think is a bit different because you know it has its own color scheme but everything else. Again you can customize everything the background in this case of course uses the accent color which for breeze is blue. And you also get text which becomes white it's usually bad black but when you select something it becomes white to have more contrast with the background. Tool tip you can understand what that is it's usually white and then the complementary which is the exact opposite. To make you an example of complementary I might be wrong here it should be used if you let's wait give me a sec. Okay so they removed what I remember was my example of complementary so I had to resort to the documentation which says as an example see the log out interface the last screen and the full screen mode for some applications make sense. I'm sorry that I wasn't able to provide you with examples right away sorry about that. And then what else do we have let's get back to our work in progress color scheme we have the header what is the header it's this part at the top of the window the title bar. In some applications like dolphin it also complements the first row of toolbar in this case I have hidden the title title bar. And let's make this I don't know green as an example and I think I haven't changed the view so let's make that red. And then we just save as always do save as and they choose the name in this case I went for a very simple breeze light video you press OK you overwrite if it's there already. Changes are not applied yet there is a bug here that was never fixed as far as I know which is it shows you as if breeze light video was actually turned on when it isn't. You need to switch back to the one that you're actually using which is normal breeze and then back to your new color scheme sorry about that it's a bug I don't know why it's there. I don't know how to fix it either. So we can see that everything is working we have our header bar which is green and even plasma like takes effect you can see the top area which is green. And by the way actually making this top are a green which is the same color as this one was not so easy like not hard either but it's a nice product of the consistency goal as I particularly happy. Not that I've implemented it I think it was it was somebody else but still it's very nice to see. Views are also like this the text input we can see here that we have the header bar at the top and then the window part which is in red the views which is yellow. Let's open up Dolphin everything is nicely consistent with this beautiful I gotta say beautiful color that I choose. Here how I picked purple as a color for the outer ring of the view. Here we have it it's purple. So if you don't like at all the ring outside of views you can just go into the color scheme editor and set it to the same color as the window and it will disappear or I don't know a bit darker I think it would look very nice and that's it. That's it I think I've covered anything that you want you would want to use. Most of it is really really really intuitive. And in here in common colors that I haven't used so much like it it is you see various it is like it takes all of the different things and put them together into what you would actually need to edit like straight away. And if you go actually editing the single ones and then it changes between the various color sets you can see that it goes to various but you can still set it to something consistent between color sets. As an example what is it like the focus focus decoration is blue for everything except for the view where it's purple. But if I wanted to be purple everywhere and just pick purple and now it's like that everywhere. Save us like this overwrite you still need to change back to another color scheme and then back to this one to apply but it will work. And that was it. I hope that it was useful for somebody. If you want to do you know Windows, some burger thingy color scheme like I've done you now know how to do that. 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