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IM Chat floater Color of the Name Tabs
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Author:  DonFranko [ 2024-05-01 19:36:38 ]
Post subject:  IM Chat floater Color of the Name Tabs
Hi there!

Is it possible to change the default colors for that?

In particular I find it hard to read the Tab Text of Highlighted Tabs that got new content . The white text color is hard to read for me on the bright orange background and I'd love to change that.
Author:  Henri Beauchamp [ 2024-05-01 20:49:06 ]
Post subject:  Re: IM Chat floater Color of the Name Tabs
No, sorry.

You could use a different skin, or customize the skin colors (but the latter would modify the aspect of all other UI tab elements, and not just the IM tabs)...
Author:  DonFranko [ 2024-05-01 23:37:59 ]
Post subject:  Re: IM Chat floater Color of the Name Tabs
ah. that's a bit of a pity. I was hoping for a chance to copy and adjust the xml...

I would try the customizing of the skin colours.. how would I do that the best? I really want to change that one setting in the IM floater when a new IM comes in to a not focused IM conversation ... I have no clue which setting would that be as I have a feeling that this setting is unique in the whole skin?.... I'm fine with the rest...
Author:  Henri Beauchamp [ 2024-05-05 16:53:37 ]
Post subject:  Re: IM Chat floater Color of the Name Tabs
DonFranko wrote:
ah. that's a bit of a pity. I was hoping for a chance to copy and adjust the xml...
This is exactly what you can do, but this will impact many UI elements, and not just tabs in IMs.

DonFranko wrote:
I would try the customizing of the skin colours.. how would I do that the best?
Copy the colors_base.xml file found in the skins/default/ sub-directory of the installed viewer into a new skins/custom/ sub-directory you will have to first create inside the %AppData%/SecondLife/ (Windows) or ~/.secondlife/ (Linux) local settings directory.
Then edit this file to your heart's content, and finally start the viewer, select the "Custom" skin in the Preferences floater, Skins tab, close and restart the viewer to see the result (you will have to restart the viewer each time you modify the file to see any changes taken into account).

You may also copy some specific floater/panel definition XML files found in skins/default/en-us/ of the installed viewer into the custom skin directory (i.e. in %AppData%/skins/custom/en-us/ for Windows or ~/.secondlife/skins/custom/en-us/ for Linux), and edit them to change things (text, colors, layout, etc).

Be aware however that each time modifications will be done by me to the original skin files distributed with the viewer, you would have to change your own files to match (e.g. when I add/rename/remove colors to/in/from colors_base.xml or when I change the files for the floaters/panels you customized).

Also, be careful not to remove or miss-type elements/colors/values: bad XML definitions can cause viewer crashes.
Author:  DonFranko [ 2024-07-12 08:24:19 ]
Post subject:  Re: IM Chat floater Color of the Name Tabs
okay :)

Merci!
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