Bug 158688

Summary:	Overall plasma applet translucency
Product:	[Plasma] plasma4	Reporter:	Sander Bouwhuis <sanderb>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	bjoern, jospoortvliet, sputnikshock
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Sander Bouwhuis 2008-03-02 17:18:03 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.0.2)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

I love plasma, and I love filling my desktop space with useful and useless widgets :) However, I'm also very fond of my collection of background images, so I was thinking that it would be cool if plasma could have an overall translucency setting which applies to all its widgets!

Comment 1 Marco Martin 2008-03-03 18:49:21 UTC

maybe you could use a more transparent theme like http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/Slim+Glow+(Plasma+Theme)?content=74329
i don't think making the entire applet semi-transparent would make much sense, the text wouldn't be very readable

Comment 2 Jonathan Thomas 2009-03-11 01:30:27 UTC

*** Bug 185530 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 jos poortvliet 2009-04-16 18:20:26 UTC

As the theme controls transparency through SVG's, afaik it is technically near impossible to influence transparency independend of theme. Unless someone steps up and finds a non-hacky way to solve this *(very unlikely, I'd say)* don't count on this to ever happen. The fact Plasma has SVG theme support is already 10 years beyond any competing widget system, isn't it enough?

Comment 4 Stefan Majewsky 2010-01-07 00:41:58 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> Unless someone steps
> up and finds a non-hacky way to solve this *(very unlikely, I'd say)* don't
> count on this to ever happen.

I might be missing something, but... QGraphicsItem::setOpacity?!?

Comment 5 Björn Ruberg 2010-09-11 00:27:01 UTC

According to the discussion here
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165795
this is a WONTFIX too.