Setting Icon colours in the CSS files

[TooWaBoo]

And for photo editing, the theme should consist of neutral colors; vividly colored window elements are distracting, and may distort your evaluation of the image colors. Some people even paint their digital darkrooms gray.

You can simply change the colors by yourself.

The best way to do this and keep the org. theme untouched is:
Create a text document eg. “MyTheme-GTK3-20_.css” and copy the color defenition from the desired TooWaBlue theme into the document. You don’t need to copy all, it’s enough when you copy only the ones you want to change. The first line should be "@import "TooWaBlue-GTK3-20_.css"; for the standard or @import "TooWaBlue-Dark-GTK3-20_.css"; for the dark theme. Copy your theme to the theme folder and select it in RT.

 @import "TooWaBlue-GTK3-20_.css";

 /*** Change me *** rgb(red,green,blue) *** allowed values from 0 to 255 for each color ***/

@define-color accent-color rgb(35,99,166);              /*** Active color for Lists, Menu, Borders ... * Default: rgb(35,99,166) ***/
@define-color text-hl-color rgb(210,210,210);           /*** Active text color * Default: rgb(210,210,210) ***/

@define-color bg-highlighted-text-color rgb(35,99,166); /*** Highlighted text color background* Default: rgb(35,99,166) ***/
@define-color highlighted-text-color rgb(210,210,210);  /*** Highlighted text color * Default: rgb(210,210,210) ***/

@define-color bg-image rgb(70,70,70);                   /*** Image area & File Browser background * Default: rgb(70,70,70) ***/

@define-color accent-color2 rgb(35,99,166);             /*** Scale, Progressbar, Scrollbar, Tabs * Default: rgb(35,99,166) ***/
@define-color accent-color4 rgb(115,115,115);           /*** Slider knob * Default: rgb(115,115,115) ***/

@define-color accent-color3 rgb(35,99,166);             /*** Selected thumbnail background color * Default: rgb(35,99,166) ***/
@define-color text-hl-color3 rgb(210,210,210);          /*** Selected thumbnail text color * Default: rgb(210,210,210) ***/

/*** Change me end *****************************************************************************/

@define-color bg-light-grey rgb(90,90,90);
@define-color bg-grey rgb(70,70,70);
@define-color bg-dark-grey rgb(36,36,36);

@define-color bg-button-hover rgba(0,0,0,.25);
@define-color bg-button-active rgba(0,0,0,.60);

@define-color winHeaderbar rgb(55,55,55);
@define-color winTitle rgb(190,190,190);

@define-color bg-tooltip rgb(185,185,185);
@define-color border-tooltip rgb(36,36,36);
@define-color text-tooltip rgb(36,36,36);
/***********************************************/
@define-color text-color rgb(186,186,186);
@define-color text-tbEntry rgb(192,192,192);
@define-color border-color rgba(255,255,255,.30);
@define-color bg-list-hover rgb(50,50,50);
@define-color bg-scale-entry rgba(0,0,0,.14);
@define-color bg-button-border rgba(0,0,0,.60);
@define-color bg-entry-border rgba(0,0,0,.40);
@define-color view-grid-border rgba(255,255,255,0.15);
@define-color headline-big rgb(195,195,195);
@define-color headline-hl rgb(230,230,230);
@define-color headline-frame rgb(215,215,215);
 /***********************************************************************************************/

[TooWaBoo]

Below is an example of a custom theme in gray.
Remove .txt from the filename: MyTheme-GTK3-20_.css.txt (1,3 KB)

[jtappin]

I do have such a theme, it may not be perfect but it is usable. My main complaint is that because the icon directory is hard-coded I either have to edit the icon path in the source code which then causes problems when I update from the git repository, or to make the “Dark” icon directory into a symlink to “Light” – which is a pain when installing the package.

Therefore what I would most like to see is a definition in the CSS file (or the preferences menu) which allows the icon directory to be specified. A well-done light theme would be nice of course but being able to specify the icon source without having to resort to methods which make updating a problem is the most important for me – it’s not even as if there isn’t a set of icons for light themes.

[jtappin]

Here is what I am currently using:

I just like to be able to get it without having to edit the source code or mess with symlinks in /usr

[anon4441346]

I don’t understand why this request is meeting so much resistance. Is a light theme too much to ask?

p.s. RawTherapee-GTK3-_19.css contains the following comment (censored for the forum); maybe proofread these before releasing them:
/* Get rid of sh**ty notebook header shadow */

The only things I actually miss when using the old style are the on-off buttons on the panel title bars.

[TooWaBoo]

@russellcottrell

Is a light theme too much to ask?

I’m not a developer but a light theme is double work and double maintenace and when I have a look on other commercial and free raw converter they are always dark. Most people want it dark and this makes sense.

[paperdigits (Mica)]

I don’t think there is too much resistance here. They’ve given instructions on how to improve things. There are no paid RT developers, everyone is doing this because they enjoy it. While we do out best to fill requests, please keep in mind that what’re asking is for someone else to spend their free time doing work for you which may not necessarily benefit them.

If yould like to contribute the code to do the icon switching and a light theme style, I’m sure it’d be accepted.

[heckflosse (Ingo Weyrich)]

@russellcottrell

p.s. RawTherapee-GTK3-_19.css contains the following comment (censored for the forum); maybe proofread these before releasing them:
/* Get rid of sh**ty notebook header shadow */

What’s your point with this ‘shitty’ comment?

[jtappin]

I am quite aware how most FOSS projects work – I wrote the high-level interface for GTK-Fortran. But as I do not know any C++, even figuring out where in the large code base to find the relevant code would be a major task, whereas I would hope that adding one path would not be a major undertaking for someone familiar with the code.

P.S. One of the reasons I’m a lot less active with GTK-Fortran than I used to be is that I loathe GTK3 – it seems to be designed specifically to make simple tasks difficult

[anon4441346]

My point is that I took a look at the .css file to play with it and saw a grotesquely unprofessional comment in a document that was released to the public.

Things have sure changed around here. I hadn’t even signed up for the new forum until now, and this is not what I expected.

p.s. Besides the tutorials on RT’s documentation page, I have just uploaded a tutorial for PhotoLine, and once again recommended RawTherapee. It moved me to get involved again. Just trying to help out . . . .

http://www.russellcottrell.com/photo/PhotoLine/raw.htm

[heckflosse (Ingo Weyrich)]

@russellcottrell

Come one. That’s really nitpicking in my opinion. Let’s concentrate on improvements instead!

[paperdigits (Mica)]

@russellcottrell

Things have sure changed around here. I hadn’t even signed up for the new forum until now, and this is not what I expected.

What did you expect?

[Morgan_Hardwood]

@russellcottrell

I use a print workflow with a dim screen (80 cd/m2) and a white background. Viewing images on a dark background makes them look bold and vivid, but this is deceiving; they will not look like that printed and mounted on a white board. If you make them look good on a dim screen with a white background, they will look good printed. (“My prints are too dark!” “No, your screen is too bright.”)

= you want a light canvas.

@russellcottrell

And for photo editing, the theme should consist of neutral colors; vividly colored window elements are distracting, and may distort your evaluation of the image colors. Some people even paint their digital darkrooms gray.

= you want neutral theme colors.

@russellcottrell

A light screen constricts the iris and improves focus; when your vision starts to go you will understand this. (Presbyopia means “old eyes.”) Light text on a dark background seems to expand and become fuzzy, and is harder to read. If you do a search you will find differences of opinion on this, but note that a significant population is of the clear opinion that a light background is less strain on the eyes. That is why operating systems and so forth provide different choices for theme colors. And the people who say a white background is a strain may be using bright high-temperature factory screen settings, which attract people in showrooms but are terrible for everything else. Note that some recommend a slightly muted or even yellowish background for text on a light theme.

= weasel words.

@russellcottrell

Using the 5.0 RawTherapee theme, I can barely tell whether the clipped highlight and shadow indication buttons are selected, for example, and the light-gray-on-dark-gray text is very hard to read. The TooWaBlue icons are a little better but the text is the same, and the vivid blue sliders and borders are distracting. And these are the only two choices I have; there is no system theme checkbox.

I don’t know.

@russellcottrell

put back the system theme box

Won’t happen.

I’m not against a light theme at all. If you make one, submit it via Sign in to GitHub · GitHub

[Silvio_Grosso (Silvio)]

Hello everyone !

@TooWaBoo

I’m not a developer but a light theme is double work and double maintenace and when I have a look on other commercial and free raw converter they are always dark. Most people want it dark and this makes sense.

Yep. I totally agree with you but…
Here is a link [1], concerning the Affinity commercial software, which shows that this a heated topic indeed

Having more themes is nice in principle but in the end it adds much more work to do for develoepers (which are all not paid volunteers…).
For instance, Gimp 2.9.X has introduced a new dark theme with new icons but now it looks like its developers want to take it back because it has many problems still unsolved [2]. IMHO, as it is now, it is indeed a bit ugly…

[1] https://affinity.serif.com/blog/affinity-1-6-versions-to-include-light-ui-mode/
[2] GIMP 2.10 blockers and the road to 3.0 - GIMP