You dont like the bright white icons in KitKat's system status area? You don't like them either in quicksetting and you hate the new pale orange that can be seen there? You want back some of good old Android Holo Blue?
Here's the solution:
This Theme Chooser Theme brings back some of our beloved Holo Blue to CM11 (should also work for the other major KitKat Custom ROMs as far as they implement Theme Chooser. The specific icons are already included in my theme!).
It's a minimalistic theme. It only themes the system status area and the quicksettings.
Back to holo blue are:
All bright white icons in these areas where reduced in brightness to the standard Jellybean level #CCCCCC.
All icons stay original KitKat. They only got carefully color and alpha channel tuned by me.
The new scheme in quicksettings with outlined dark grey icons when inactive and bright filled icons when active stays untouched. Only the above mentioned icons turn blue, when a full connection is established.
Icons for RTL languages are also included.
Knowns issues: Battery and clock color only get changed in newer nighlies of cm11. There is a bug in CM11 regarding the circle battery. The grey (infact it's translucent white) full ring is actually drawn over the indicator ring segment instead as an underlay. This makes the color of the ring look brighter and less saturated. I already opened an issue on CM11 bugtracker. Hope they fix it soon.
Installation: Download and install the APK. Go to Settings/Themes and activate it - voilà - you get back some Holo Blue. :cool:
Here's the solution:
This Theme Chooser Theme brings back some of our beloved Holo Blue to CM11 (should also work for the other major KitKat Custom ROMs as far as they implement Theme Chooser. The specific icons are already included in my theme!).
It's a minimalistic theme. It only themes the system status area and the quicksettings.
Back to holo blue are:
- Signal, WiFi, Bluetooth (when connected), Clock and Battery icon in system status area. Here I use the brightest possible version #39CAFF for better contrast on the transparent status bar and because the icons get reduced in brightness by the system when displayed on a black status bar.
- Signal, WiFi, Bluetooth and Chromecast in Quicksettings. Here they turn to standard Holo Blue #33B5E5, when fully connected.
All bright white icons in these areas where reduced in brightness to the standard Jellybean level #CCCCCC.
All icons stay original KitKat. They only got carefully color and alpha channel tuned by me.
The new scheme in quicksettings with outlined dark grey icons when inactive and bright filled icons when active stays untouched. Only the above mentioned icons turn blue, when a full connection is established.
Icons for RTL languages are also included.
Knowns issues: Battery and clock color only get changed in newer nighlies of cm11. There is a bug in CM11 regarding the circle battery. The grey (infact it's translucent white) full ring is actually drawn over the indicator ring segment instead as an underlay. This makes the color of the ring look brighter and less saturated. I already opened an issue on CM11 bugtracker. Hope they fix it soon.
Installation: Download and install the APK. Go to Settings/Themes and activate it - voilà - you get back some Holo Blue. :cool: