Inactive titlebar text colour in Breeze and Breath not changeable?

I’ve tried changing the colour of the titlebar text of inactive windows because its the same as for active ones.
Older Manjaro themes, like Breath2 had a darker colour for titlebars of inactive windows.
Gone through all settings under the colour scheme (a copy of Manjaro’s Breath Dark) concerning inactive text, but none of them have an effect.

What gives? I’ve tried searching for bug reports on KDE bug tracker, but nothing relevant came up.

Edit: Same behaviour in a live environment :frowning:

Hi @Jaypee
Do you only want to darken the titelbar or do you want to darken the whole inactive window, something like this:
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If you want to darken all inactive windows there is the option of
‘Apply effects to inactive windows’.
Save the new color scheme first and ‘Apply’ in System Settings and then go back to the color scheme and you should have a new tab on top that says ‘Inactive’. There you can change the Intensity to ‘Darken’.
There is also a Desktop Effect in Workspace Behaviour that’s called ‘Dim Inactive’.
Hope it helps.

I’m aware of how to darken the whole window.
Like the title says, I’m after changing just the text.

I think in Breath2 it was accomplished with Darken. I can’t be sure though.
According to KDE this can only be accomplished with the Breeze Classic color scheme or any scheme that builds on Classic. Copy that one and then you have to adjust everything. It’s a bit of work when you use dark mode.

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You may know that there is a bigger change coming with this in Plasma 5.25. E.g theme color from wallpaper, window tinting, etc.

I managed to get dimmed titlebar text back by removing [Colors:Header] and [Colors:Header][Inactive] sections from the colour-scheme file. Now to debug which variable causes it in there :thinking:

Interesting :thinking:. I knew that you can change the Header section to impact colors, but I think not title text wise.
Classic was before they introduced the Dark/Light mode. I think with this they changed the layouts to accomplish Dark/Light theming better.
It would be great if you manage to find a solution with the new layouts!!
Breath2-git is still in AUR, can copy the scheme from there. :wink:

inactiveForeground= under [WM] controls the inactive titlebar text colour.
But if the colour-scheme file has one or both of [Colors:Header] and [Colors:Header][Inactive], with any arguments, the [WM] argument loses all effect

I think I got it: Remove both Header sections completely from the Breath Dark or whatever copy in the text file.
In my test I can change then the window title text while retaining the breath dark mode.

This is my current colour-scheme file, that seems to work fine with Qt6 applications, like qbittorrent, as well:

My edited colour-scheme, based on current dark Manjaro theme
[ColorEffects:Disabled]
Color=56,56,56
ColorAmount=0
ColorEffect=0
ContrastAmount=0.65
ContrastEffect=1
IntensityAmount=0.1
IntensityEffect=2

[ColorEffects:Inactive]
ChangeSelectionColor=true
Color=50,50,49
ColorAmount=0.025
ColorEffect=2
ContrastAmount=0.1
ContrastEffect=2
Enable=false
IntensityAmount=0
IntensityEffect=2

[Colors:Button]
BackgroundAlternate=30,87,116
BackgroundNormal=51,57,63
DecorationFocus=0,137,123
DecorationHover=0,152,134
ForegroundActive=61,174,233
ForegroundInactive=194,194,194
ForegroundLink=29,153,243
ForegroundNegative=218,68,83
ForegroundNeutral=246,116,0
ForegroundNormal=252,252,252
ForegroundPositive=39,174,96
ForegroundVisited=188,109,222

[Colors:Complementary]
BackgroundAlternate=30,87,116
BackgroundNormal=42,46,50
DecorationFocus=61,174,233
DecorationHover=61,174,233
ForegroundActive=61,174,233
ForegroundInactive=161,169,177
ForegroundLink=29,153,243
ForegroundNegative=218,68,83
ForegroundNeutral=246,116,0
ForegroundNormal=252,252,252
ForegroundPositive=39,174,96
ForegroundVisited=155,89,182

[Colors:Selection]
BackgroundAlternate=30,87,116
BackgroundNormal=0,110,98
DecorationFocus=0,137,123
DecorationHover=0,152,134
ForegroundActive=252,252,252
ForegroundInactive=252,252,252
ForegroundLink=253,188,75
ForegroundNegative=218,68,83
ForegroundNeutral=246,116,0
ForegroundNormal=252,252,252
ForegroundPositive=39,174,96
ForegroundVisited=188,109,222

[Colors:Tooltip]
BackgroundAlternate=42,46,50
BackgroundNormal=15,15,15
DecorationFocus=0,137,123
DecorationHover=0,152,134
ForegroundActive=61,174,233
ForegroundInactive=194,194,194
ForegroundLink=29,153,243
ForegroundNegative=218,68,83
ForegroundNeutral=246,116,0
ForegroundNormal=252,252,252
ForegroundPositive=39,174,96
ForegroundVisited=188,109,222

[Colors:View]
BackgroundAlternate=35,38,41
BackgroundNormal=28,29,34
DecorationFocus=0,137,123
DecorationHover=0,152,134
ForegroundActive=61,174,233
ForegroundInactive=194,194,194
ForegroundLink=29,153,243
ForegroundNegative=218,68,83
ForegroundNeutral=246,116,0
ForegroundNormal=252,252,252
ForegroundPositive=39,174,96
ForegroundVisited=188,109,222

[Colors:Window]
BackgroundAlternate=49,54,59
BackgroundNormal=40,46,51
DecorationFocus=0,137,123
DecorationHover=0,152,134
ForegroundActive=61,174,233
ForegroundInactive=194,194,194
ForegroundLink=29,153,243
ForegroundNegative=218,68,83
ForegroundNeutral=246,116,0
ForegroundNormal=252,252,252
ForegroundPositive=39,174,96
ForegroundVisited=188,109,222

[General]
ColorScheme=BreathDark
Name=Breath Dark ME
shadeSortColumn=true

[KDE]
contrast=4

[WM]
activeBackground=41,47,52
activeBlend=41,47,52
activeForeground=255,255,255
inactiveBackground=41,47,52
inactiveBlend=41,47,52
inactiveForeground=130,130,130

Older Breath2 caused black text on dark background in qbittorrent.

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Very nice and thanks and well done!

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