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.

Solution

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.

Here's the resulting appearance of kate

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

Comments

[xenoterracide]

@Joon does kile use kwrite_part?

[xenoterracide]

@Joon also out of curiousity did you find a dark theme for kate somewhere?

[xenoterracide]

seems I found a bug... the toolbar labels shouldn't be that dark.

[Admin]

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

[chandra]

@joon: FWIW, you can download kate schemas which will allow the side and editing panes to have a dark background. See: <unix.stackexchange.com/questions/20902/…> for some links.

[chandra]

Might I ask where you downloaded the Evening Lilac, Cherry Blossom and related colour schemes please.

[xenoterracide]

@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.

[msrd0]

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