Preferences

Preferences are available by navigating to Zettelkasten>Preferences.

General

Appearance

Look and Feel

A variety of themes are available which each require a restart of the program to apply. These affect the general outline of objects in the window, and menus, but do not affect things such as note text boxes or note text, which can be changed in the Fonts and Colours preferences options. These are the available themes:

Metal Nimbus CDE/Motif GTK+ Note that the appearance shown in the picture is not the only possible look available. This follows GTK theming of the host system. On linux, one may get GTK themes from collections such as Gnome-look, extract the directory to ~/.themes, and use a tool such as lxappearance to switch between available themes. An example of a working dark theme is Nordic.

Sea Glass

Currently Sea Glass is broken and will cause immediate crashing on launch. Follow Issue 292 for progress on this bug. If stuck with the crashing, cleaning out ~/.Zettelkasten can remove this preference along with all other preferences and reset it to the default theme.

Fonts and Colours

Fonts

A variety of customizations are available for the text used throughout the program. From the dropdown the current settings for each text type in terms of size and emphasis are shown. The user can select a text type to alter from the dropdown, and the color swatch directly to the right of the dropdown will change to show the current color for the selected font. To the right of the color swatch is a button which can be clicked to bring up a box for selecting a font, size, and emphasis to be used for the selected text along with a preview:

To the right of the font options button is a button which can be clicked to bring up a box for color options.

Swatches

HSV

HSL

RGB

CMYK

Here is a picture reflecting the color changes in the notes pane of the main window:

From top to bottom in the picture here are the names of the color options as seen in the picture:

• Note headline (Periwinkle)
• Note title (Red)
• Mainfont (Light blue)
• Quotations (This color seems to be ignored and instead uses the color for Mainfont. This may be a bug. See Issue 395)
• Source code (Peach)
• Appendix title, applying to both the visible text "Remarks" and "Authors" (Brown) (This color is the Note equivalent of Desktop items header in the outliner)
• Remarks (Yellow)
• Authors (Light green)

Here is a picture reflecting the colors changes in the outliner window:

From top to bottom in the picture here are the names of the color options as seen in the picture:

• Desktop header, applying to both visible text "testfirstbullet" and "References" (Orange)
• Note title (The color for Note title seems to be ignored and instead uses the color for Mainfont. This may be a bug. See Issue 395)
• Mainfont (Light blue)
• Quotations (This color seems to be ignored and instead uses the color for Mainfont. This may be a bug. See Issue 395)
• Source code (Peach)
• Desktop items header, applying to both the visible text "Remarks" and "Authors" (Blue) (This color is the Outliner equivalent of Appendix title in a note)
• Desktop items, applying to both the visible text "A test remark." and "A test author name" (Green)
• Note title (Red)
• Header 1 (Pink)
• Header 2 (Purple)
• Mainfont applies to all subsections from there
• Desktop comment, applying to the comments on the left of the outline (Light pink)

Other color attributes

Similar to the previous section, the user can select an item to customize from the dropdown with the corresponding color swatch to the right, and to the right of that is a button to change the color.

Here is a picture reflecting the color changes in the notes pane of the main window:

From top to bottom in the picture here are the names of the color options as seen in the picture, omitting colors explained in the above comments:

• Backgroundcolor note heading (Salmon)
• Backgroundcolor note content (Brown) (The similarly named "Backgroundcolor note area" does not seem to change anything. This may be a bug. See Issue 395)
• Background quotes (This color seems to be ignored. This may be a bug. See Issue 395)
• Backgroundcolor table heading (This color seems to be ignored. This may be a bug. See Issue 395)
• Backgroundcolor odd table rows (Yellow)
• Backgroundcolor even table rows (Light green)
• Textcolor hyperlinks (The visible text "Preferences") (Dark blue)
• Textcolor manual links (The visible text "Next note link") (Blue)
• Textcolor author footnotes (The visible text "1" in the visible text fully reading "Here is some more text(^[1]).") (Green)
• Backgroundcolor appendix (Pink)