Documentation for color files in the folder color-shemes?

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Krita 5.2.9 (installed) and 5.3 alpha (portable) on Windows 11.

There are color files in the folder color-shemes.
By editing those files a user can control the Krita UI colors.

I found threads, saying, that most of the entries are not used by Krita and / or the poster is guessing what the entries do.

Is there a documentation or someting similar that explains which entries of the color files are really valid in Krita 5.2.9 or 5.3 and what those entries do?

For example:
there is the group
[ColorEffects:Disabled]

What is this supposed to do?

Or:
[Colors:Tooltip]
BackgroundAlternate

What means “Alternate”?

Or:
What are the groups [KDE] and [WM] used for?

Example: KritaDark.colors

[ColorEffects:Disabled]
Color=20,20,20
ColorAmount=-0.5
ColorEffect=0
ContrastAmount=0.45
ContrastEffect=1
IntensityAmount=0.2
IntensityEffect=2

[ColorEffects:Inactive]
ChangeSelectionColor=false
Color=0,0,0
ColorAmount=0.025
ColorEffect=2
ContrastAmount=0.4
ContrastEffect=2
Enable=false
IntensityAmount=0
IntensityEffect=0

[Colors:Button]
BackgroundAlternate=66,65,64
BackgroundNormal=54,54,54
DecorationFocus=80,80,80
DecorationHover=80,80,80
ForegroundActive=140,140,140
ForegroundInactive=20,119,117
ForegroundLink=216,216,216
ForegroundNegative=160,160,160
ForegroundNeutral=110,110,110
ForegroundNormal=200,200,200
ForegroundPositive=60,60,60
ForegroundVisited=160,160,160

[Colors:Selection]
BackgroundAlternate=96,126,163
BackgroundNormal=83,114,142
DecorationFocus=80,80,80
DecorationHover=80,80,80
ForegroundActive=140,140,140
ForegroundInactive=20,119,117
ForegroundLink=216,216,216
ForegroundNegative=160,160,160
ForegroundNeutral=110,110,110
ForegroundNormal=235,235,235
ForegroundPositive=60,60,60
ForegroundVisited=160,160,160

[Colors:Tooltip]
BackgroundAlternate=17,51,86
BackgroundNormal=54,54,54
DecorationFocus=80,80,80
DecorationHover=80,80,80
ForegroundActive=140,140,140
ForegroundInactive=20,119,117
ForegroundLink=216,216,216
ForegroundNegative=160,160,160
ForegroundNeutral=110,110,110
ForegroundNormal=156,162,174
ForegroundPositive=60,60,60
ForegroundVisited=160,160,160

[Colors:View]
BackgroundAlternate=50,50,50
BackgroundNormal=56,56,56
DecorationFocus=80,80,80
DecorationHover=80,80,80
ForegroundActive=140,140,140
ForegroundInactive=20,119,117
ForegroundLink=216,216,216
ForegroundNegative=160,160,160
ForegroundNeutral=110,110,110
ForegroundNormal=200,200,200
ForegroundPositive=60,60,60
ForegroundVisited=160,160,160

[Colors:Window]
BackgroundAlternate=75,75,75
BackgroundNormal=71,71,71
DecorationFocus=80,80,80
DecorationHover=80,80,80
ForegroundActive=140,140,140
ForegroundInactive=20,119,117
ForegroundLink=216,216,216
ForegroundNegative=160,160,160
ForegroundNeutral=110,110,110
ForegroundNormal=200,200,200
ForegroundPositive=60,60,60
ForegroundVisited=160,160,160

[General]
ColorScheme=Krita dark
Name=Krita dark
shadeSortColumn=true

[KDE]
contrast=2

[WM]
activeBackground=80,80,80
activeBlend=255,255,255
activeForeground=180,180,180
inactiveBackground=64,63,62
inactiveBlend=75,71,67
inactiveForeground=128,127,125
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Here we have a plugin that makes your life much easier → Plugin: Theme Creator Extension there you can address the elements whose color you want to change directly via its input mask.

But otherwise it is true, in these *.colors files can be a lot of values that aren’t available in Krita since this file format stems from / is for basically all and any KDE applications, and you can customize whole KDE desktops via this format, so if you are searching for a documentation on this, you have to search in that direction.
So the group KDE will be for the whole desktop I guess and WM is the usual abbreviation for WindowManager.

Michelist

Add/Edit: Also guessed, BackgroundAlternate will probably be for selected items like a selected layer gets a new background color.

Add/Edit 2: Also this will be helpful for a deeper search on the roots of this: Plugin: Theme Creator Extension - #10 by freyalupen, and I don’t know if you already found one of my posts about more sources for color profiles, this one for instance: More Krita themes that go hard - #16 by Michelist → and there you should follow this link to get access to thousands of ready-made color-schemes: KDE - pling.com

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The KDE documentation for the color schemes which I referenced is here:

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The plugin does the trick - it is easier than editing the color file.
:grinning: