Amarok Blog

In my last entry, I introduced the new svg theme "Graywolf" which was, as the name implies, quite gray. I also stated that one of the ideas behind this theme was to allow the application to automatically tint the svgs to match the system color scheme and that to achieve this, we needed a base them that did not have any single dominant colors. As some people were expressing doubts about the feasibility of this approach, I did what I always do in those situations: I came up with a quick and dirty prof of concept.

So, before I overwhelm your sense with an explosion of color, please remember that this is the result of one night of prototyping and some of the svgs are not tinted yet as I am waiting for an updated version ( the sidebar buttons, play controls, ... ). Also, work needs to be done to ensure adequate contrast in very light color schemes. The only thing different between the following screenshots is that I have changed the users color settings. No configuration at all has changed in Amarok itself. Of course I also choose some of the more, uhm... colorful, color themes to really illustrate the concept:










I actually think the black one is pretty sweet, even if the other ones are a bit "over the top" for my taste! .-)

It is still a work in progress and needs a lot of tweaking, but i hope this will put to rest some of the fears people have expressed that it is impossible to make svg graphics match the system color scheme.