[Digikam-users] Tool tips in invisible ink

[Andrew Goodbody]

On 23/07/12 14:02, Brian Morrison wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 17:19:25 +0200
> Ignatius Reilly<ignatius.reilly at free.fr>  wrote:
>
>> On my system the tool tips are nearly invisible, being in white font
>> over a light turquoise box.
>
> I have pretty much the same thing with Fedora 17 and digikam 2.7.0,
> while on Windows the tooltips are OK with the exception of those when
> hovering over a file in the collection view. The headings display in
> black but the text is in very pales colour (might be blue) on a white
> or very pale yellow background.
>
> I can't find any way of changing the background or the foreground text
> in either Windows or Fedora.

You need the KDE control panel which on Debian the package is called 
'sysyemsettings'. You may need to install some KDE themes as well but I 
can't remember what I did about that. With systemsettings and 
appropriate themes you can choose a more legible theme.

Andrew