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!
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
*** Bug 185530 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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?
(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?!?
According to the discussion here https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165795 this is a WONTFIX too.