Head's Up: Upcoming Find Replace User Interface Changes

[KevinH]

Yes. Brilliant indeed!

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by BeckyEbook

Playing with your own RCC file is not necessary.

I have Text only buttons, and I have this ...\AppData\Sigil\Prefs\custom_icon_theme.rcc (~50K bytes). I assume that's where the Text only buttons come from - see attachment.

Now I think about it - I think the text-only F&R buttons might have came with the monochrome buttons at the bottom of Preview panel. When I visited this thread yesterday I wondering where the .rcc file came from because there is absolutely no way I could have created it myself. I normally annotate ad-hoc downloads, but… mice and men….

Anyone wanna fess up

Oh, and could I use qt_styles.qss for the monochrome Preview buttons.

BR

[BeckyEbook]

The custom_icon_theme.rcc file is not a perpetually up-to-date file. Since you uploaded this file to your computer, Sigil has changed, and new icons have been added, so the file must change and should always be based on the latest "base", i.e. the file from the last release.

You don't see the icons in the F&R panel as a side effect – you don't have those icons in the RCC file, so Sigil displays the text instead.

Creating your own new custom_icon_theme.rcc file is not very difficult, but it's about consistency.
If the icons under the Preview window were to be monochrome, then two of them (copy and print) would also be monochrome in the "File" and "Edit" menus, respectively.
Perhaps you want all icons to be monochrome, then the problem does not exist, because you can easily prepare icons in the Material theme with a selected or even any color (slightly modifying the Python program).
This is described here: https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/IconThemes

And the answer to your last question – unfortunately, it is impossible to change the color of the icons to monochrome only through the qt_styles.qss file.

[BKh]

Originally Posted by BeckyEbook

Playing with your own RCC file is not necessary.
Just create a qt_styles.qss file in the Sigil configuration folder and enter there:

OMG, that worked perfectly.

Thank you so much!!

I probably would have learned the icons eventually, however, I tend to use Sigil in big bursts about every six months, so I'm sure I'd forget what they were in the gaps.

And I love all the new powerful search features. Really wonderful since it seems like 90% of all the work I do to files is searching.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by BeckyEbook

The custom_icon_theme.rcc file is not a perpetually up-to-date file. Since you uploaded this file to your computer, Sigil has changed, and new icons have been added, so the file must change and should always be based on the latest "base", i.e. the file from the last release.

You don't see the icons in the F&R panel as a side effect – you don't have those icons in the RCC file, so Sigil displays the text instead.

Creating your own new custom_icon_theme.rcc file is not very difficult, but it's about consistency.
If the icons under the Preview window were to be monochrome, then two of them (copy and print) would also be monochrome in the "File" and "Edit" menus, respectively.
Perhaps you want all icons to be monochrome, then the problem does not exist, because you can easily prepare icons in the Material theme with a selected or even any color (slightly modifying the Python program).
This is described here: https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/IconThemes

And the answer to your last question – unfortunately, it is impossible to change the color of the icons to monochrome only through the qt_styles.qss file.

Ah-ha - there's missing link, the reference to themes at github.

Because, I avoid using the mouse I don't show any tool bars, I can do all I want with menu items, shortcuts, and context menus. It was the coloured icons at the bottom of preview that triggered me into getting that old material-gray theme and using it as a custom theme.

Now I know where it came from I'm okay with what I have, so I'll leave it be.

BR