The appearance of the main keyboard window can now be modified
by choosing a colour theme. A colour theme affects all elements of
the main keyboard window:
- Background colour
- Text colour
- Key colour
The key colour is specified by twelve colours and three choices of
gradient style. A key can be normal, dead key or selected (for swap
or showing a found key stroke), and can be either up or down for
each of these. For each of the six possible combinations, you
choose an inner colour and an outer colour and a gradient style.
For a radial gradient, the inner colour is the colour at the centre
of the key, and the outer colour is at the corners. For a linear
gradient, the outer colour is at the top, and the inner colour is
at the bottom. For the style without a gradient, the inner colour
is solid for the key, with a 2 pixel border of the outer
colour.
Colour themes can be modified, saved, or replaced by using the
Colour Theme submenu of the View menu. Colour themes are saved in a
file called ColourThemes.plist, stored in a folder called Ukelele
inside the user's Preferences folder. This file is an XML property
list, and can be edited with a text editor or any program that can
handle XML and/or property lists.
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