[jpf55]

Hi ronie,
I've been looking around at color themes and I have found the defaults.xml in the colors folder. I of course had to learn something new, I had never heard of aarrggbb format, anyway, I have a modified defaults.xml, I kept your trransparency values and replaced the original one but still the colors don't change. As you know, "color" is not a very rewarding search term in xml files, I tried skintheme and skincolor and found them in guisettings.xml but I have found no reference as to how the colors are actually assigned. A litlle help is needed, "Oh Master of the skin" (this could probably make a decent horror film)

[ronie]

if you want to create a new colortheme (text colors) you have to copy the defaults.xml file to a new xml file in Transparency!\colors

like:
Transparency!\colors\defaults.xml
Transparency!\colors\test.xml

next, modify only the aarrggbb values in test.xml

when your done, select your new colotheme in:
Settings > Appearance > Look & Feel > Colours


hope this answers your question.

[jpf55]

You know, when you are tired and should be in bed but keep on working... that's the time when you make mistakes. That's exactly what happened last night, I was changing the colors on the AppleTV and checking the results on my Mac... no comment

Anyway, here is a slideshow of my first attempt and as you can see, especially in the weather screen, it brings on inconsistencies

http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/show/

here is the code:

Code:

<colors>
    <color name="white">FFFFFFFF</color>
    <color name="black">FF000000</color>
    <color name="lightgrey">88FFFFFF</color>
    <color name="grey">66FFFFFF</color>
    <color name="darkgrey">33FFFFFF</color>
<!-- RED -->
    <color name="lightblue">FFFF001D</color>
<!-- GREEN -->
    <color name="blue">FF1DFF00</color>
<!-- BLUE -->
    <color name="darkblue">FF001CFF</color>
    
<!--
<color name="lightblue">FF99D8FF</color>
<color name="blue">FF4DBAFF</color>
<color name="darkblue">FF009CFF</color>
-->
</colors>

[ronie]

You know, when you are tired and should be in bed but keep on working... that's the time when you make mistakes. That's exactly what happened last night, I was changing the colors on the AppleTV and checking the results on my Mac... no comment

Anyway, here is a slideshow of my first attempt and as you can see, especially in the weather screen, it brings on inconsistencies

maybe the 'red' color is a bit too dark, if that's what you mean. you could choose a lighter red colour to improve readability. in my experience, light colors work best with the skin.

[jpf55]

Yes I agree, it might even be a lighter or different green but my concern is that all the graphic highlights are blueish... more to come