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Any way to get colored icons in alt-tab task switcher in KDE?

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In KDE, I use the "Layout based switcher" alt-tab task switcher, with the "Informative" layout. All the layouts that display both icons and text have the icons for all but the currently selected task grayed out.

Is there any way to have all icons displayed in color?

As the purpose of the task switcher is to switch to another task, it really makes no sense to have the icons for those tasks grayed out. All it does is to make it take longer to find the right icon as they look less familiar and much more similar to each other.

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answered 2 Years ago amacal · Accepted Answer

Here's a patch that will force the use of colored icons in the "compact" and "informative" task switcher. It also changes the description font to normal, using bold only for the selected window. It's based on this change: KDE change 104187

Hope this helps!

--- /var/lib/editconf/originals//usr/share/kde4/apps/kwin/tabbox/compact.qml    2012-06-01 06:20:45.000000000 -0700

+++ /usr/share/kde4/apps/kwin/tabbox/compact.qml    2012-08-09 10:52:08.070420127 -0700

@@ -89,11 +89,11 @@

             id: delegateItem

             width: compactListView.width

             height: compactListView.rowHeight

             Image {

                 id: iconItem

-                source: "image://client/" + index + "/" + compactTabBox.imagePathPrefix + "-" + compactListView.imageId + (index == compactListView.currentIndex ? "/selected" : "/disabled")

+                source: "image://client/" + index + "/" + compactTabBox.imagePathPrefix + "-" + compactListView.imageId + (index == compactListView.currentIndex ? "/selected" : "/selected")

                 width: 16

                 height: 16

                 sourceSize {

                     width: 16

                     height: 16

@@ -107,11 +107,11 @@

             Text {

                 id: captionItem

                 horizontalAlignment: Text.AlignLeft

                 verticalAlignment: Text.AlignBottom

                 text: itemCaption(caption, minimized)

-                font.bold: true

+                font.bold: index == compactListView.currentIndex

                 font.italic: minimized

                 color: theme.textColor

                 elide: Text.ElideMiddle

                 anchors {

                     left: iconItem.right

--- /var/lib/editconf/originals//usr/share/kde4/apps/kwin/tabbox/informative.qml    2012-06-01 06:20:45.000000000 -0700

+++ /usr/share/kde4/apps/kwin/tabbox/informative.qml    2012-08-09 10:52:48.414420651 -0700

@@ -90,11 +90,11 @@

             id: delegateItem

             width: listView.width

             height: listView.rowHeight

             Image {

                 id: iconItem

-                source: "image://client/" + index + "/" + informativeTabBox.imagePathPrefix + "-" + listView.imageId + (index == listView.currentIndex ? "/selected" : "/disabled")

+                source: "image://client/" + index + "/" + informativeTabBox.imagePathPrefix + "-" + listView.imageId + (index == listView.currentIndex ? "/selected" : "/selected")

                 width: 32

                 height: 32

                 sourceSize {

                     width: 32

                     height: 32

@@ -107,11 +107,11 @@

             }

             Text {

                 id: captionItem

                 horizontalAlignment: Text.AlignHCenter

                 text: itemCaption(caption, minimized)

-                font.bold: true

+                font.bold: index == compactListView.currentIndex

                 font.italic: minimized

                 color: theme.textColor

                 elide: Text.ElideMiddle

                 anchors {

                     left: iconItem.right