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Dmitry Ivanov edited this page Jan 9, 2020 · 2 revisions

Quentier allows you to configure the style of panels:

  1. You can choose the font color for labels on panels
  2. You can choose either a single background color for panels or a set of colors organized into a gradient

To customize the style of panels first open the preferences menu:

Open preferences menu screenshot

Preferences dialog would show up with its default "Appearance" tab:

Preferences dialog appearance tab

The panel configuration options available are listed under "Panel colors" label:

  • Panel font (foreground) color fields. There's a line edit where you can see and enter color code, there's a small quad demonstrating the currently used color and there's a push button to open the color picking dialog (you can double-click the quad instead of single-clicking the button if you like).
  • Same fields for panel background color.
  • To the right of these there's a switch between using flag background color or using a gradient. If you press it now, it would reject to switch and complain than no gradient is set up. That's what fields to the bottom are for:
  • Background gradient table. This table is meant to contain lines with values and colors that form the gradient.
  • Add row button to the bottom right of the table adds rows to the table so you can edit values.

If you'd like to have gradient background for panels but you don't feel like entering values and choosing colors for several lines manually, the following fields are here to help:

  • Base color. This is the "middle" color for the gradient you'd like to have.
  • Generate button which creates the gradient from the single selected middle color.

The preview field on the bottom of the dialog shows how the panel would look with all chosen style options.

After you set up the gradient, you can switch the radio button from using flat color. It can look like that:

Preferences dialog appearance tab with gradient

Quentier's main window with gradient set up this way would look like this:

Quentier main window with gradient set up for panels

You don't have to use gray scales, you can pick any colors you wish.

Panel colors are stored persistently and thus the next time the app starts up it picks the colors you have chosen the last time. Panel colors are stored separately for different accounts which makes it possible for you to set up panel colors differently for different accounts and hence be able to easily differentiate them visually.

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