How to change background color of side pane of Kate and Kile?

Question

I am trying to customize the color scheme of Kile/Kate. I could do it, except I could not find any way to change the color of the side pane such as files, etc.

I prefer dark background, and having dark background in editing space and white background in the left pane is not good for my eyes.

@Joon also out of curiousity did you find a dark theme for kate somewhere? — xenoterracide, Sep 05 '10 at 21:19

xenoterracide · Answer 1 · 2010-09-05T21:49:30.627

2

I don't think you can change it from within Kate, because I think it's like a filebrowser_part or something. Go to System Settings > Application Appearance > Colors Try the Zion ( Reversed ) Scheme. I think you can change those colors individually, and obviously you can create a scheme. I wish the makers of kate would realize that dev's like dark backgrounds and facilitate it more.

system settings screenshot Here's the resulting appearance of kate

kate dark ( Zion ( Reversed ) Scheme )

please note some portions of this are not from the colorscheme but other settings

edited Sep 05 '10 at 21:49

answered Sep 05 '10 at 21:36

xenoterracide

59,188
74
187
252

seems I found a bug... the toolbar labels shouldn't be that dark. – xenoterracide Sep 05 '10 at 22:16
thank you for your answer. The problem was I was in Gnome environment in openSUSE 11.3. After I installed kdebase4-workspace package, I could run systemsettings, and change the theme.
-Joon
– Jan 14 '11 at 21:01
@joon: FWIW, you can download kate schemas which will allow the side and editing panes to have a dark background. See: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/20902/where-to-get-kate-color-schemes for some links. – chandra Oct 16 '11 at 18:12
Might I ask where you downloaded the Evening Lilac, Cherry Blossom and related colour schemes please. – chandra Oct 16 '11 at 18:15
@chandra using Arch-Linux they must be part of a package that is included with the kde-meta package... I'd check your distro for additional theme packages. – xenoterracide Oct 17 '11 at 19:12
Note that changing the color theme of KDE only doesn't work. I had to change the color sheme in Kate/KWrite/… from "KWrite - default" or similar to "KDE" to get the dark background – msrd0 Feb 21 '15 at 14:36

How to change background color of side pane of Kate and Kile?

1 Answers1

Linked