It's possible to set fully opaque for color properties in forms but it's not possible to set fully transparent color. Reproducible: Always This is a bug because for example labels or frames have transparent default background. It's thus impossible to set back to transparent after setting other opaque color.
It's about inheritance in fact.
Git commit 65f6d4f1f2480580cd6788b8f3e1417817294555 by Jaroslaw Staniek. Committed on 23/04/2014 at 14:31. Pushed by staniek into branch 'calligra/2.8'. Make setting solid and inherited background color possible in form widgets autoFillBackgound property re-enabled for this; it's set to true when user selects background color Related: bug 333548 FIXED-IN:2.8.3 REVIEW:117709 M +27 -6 kexi/formeditor/form.cpp M +10 -0 kexi/formeditor/formIO.cpp M +0 -1 kexi/formeditor/widgetlibrary.cpp M +2 -3 kexi/plugins/forms/kexidbfactory.cpp M +1 -0 kexi/plugins/forms/kexidbfactory.h http://commits.kde.org/calligra/65f6d4f1f2480580cd6788b8f3e1417817294555
Git commit 848eb60e6b1191f17174858bcd60fa2927c2dfd3 by Jaroslaw Staniek. Committed on 23/04/2014 at 14:31. Pushed by staniek into branch 'master'. Make setting solid and inherited background color possible in form widgets autoFillBackgound property re-enabled for this; it's set to true when user selects background color Related: bug 333548 FIXED-IN:2.8.3 M +27 -6 kexi/formeditor/form.cpp M +10 -0 kexi/formeditor/formIO.cpp M +0 -1 kexi/formeditor/widgetlibrary.cpp M +2 -3 kexi/plugins/forms/kexidbfactory.cpp M +1 -0 kexi/plugins/forms/kexidbfactory.h http://commits.kde.org/calligra/848eb60e6b1191f17174858bcd60fa2927c2dfd3