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Ok here is my problem, I like the color black. That in itself is not a problem but sometimes black is not practical. I would like to know if someone can either help me around an existing limitation of KDE color schemes or if my problem can be solved by simply adding a feature to KDE.

For my window decorations and buttons I love black. That means I need a light colored text on those buttons. Unfortunately dark colored themes seem to be an issue with KDE. If you simply color the window decorations black and the text white then everything is ok. But when you start trying to make the window backgrounds black then you start running into problems with the text colors. It seems as though the text that will be displayed in some instances on a black button or window background is the "Standard Text" color.

The "Standard Text" color in my opinion must remain a dark color so that things like text editing and html pages with no attributes and such will be the nice normal easy on your eyes white paper with dark text (IMO and fairly dark grey).

So basically I want everything to do with window decorations and styles and buttons and such to be white on black but everything inside those windows to conform to the norm.

I also think it would be nice to have the KDE menu separate from the drop down menus like when clicking on file. The main menu (for some strange reason) I want to be white with black text while I like the "File" menus and such to be white on black.

Anyway if anyone can help me eiter figure out how this is currently possible or wants to add this to KDE I am sure I am not the only one that like dark themes.

For a wonderful example of what I like check out the *shift themes for Firefox. Greenshift, Blueshift, Redshift...

P.S. it seems that certain apps that use the GTK widgets render different than the native KDE apps when you try to overide the GTK stuff with QT.