Bug 177322

Hi,

all these options are up to the various themes.
For example, if you want a transparent panel, use a theme that provides such possibility.

It`s very good, but think that maybe someone want to have two panels, one of them transparent another non-transparent with background as a picture. How can I do it use themes? Create new theme hard enough I think.

I agree to the original poster, customizing panel colors should be enabled for simple users. It is really hard to expect this. Please reopen this as a feature please.

I would also like to see this: even if it just tints the original theme to the colour you select. I'd also like to see an opacity slider, or something similar, to change how translucent the panel background is.

So far, this is the only thing that is difficult for me to configure in KDE 4... It could go as a, "colour" button next to the Lock Widgets button and the More Settings button, and pop-up a small colour selector and opacity slider in the same fashion the More Settings button pops-up.

I agree to say that customizing the taskbar is much easier in KDE3 than KDE4 which is quite annoying to modify.
What does meean "Status: RESOLVED Resolution: WONTFIX "

Wontfix for KDE4.3 ? Will be fixed for KDE4.4 ?

um, Ditto.  I have black text on a dark gray or black background in the panel.  It is kind of funny that the panel is unusable because of this, but it really makes KDE as whole unusable for me in any real way (i.e. getting work done).  I am using 4.3.2 and as for options for fixing that I can find:

- No way to configure it.
- Changing themes doesn't work.
- I could try the utility someone else created to fix this, but it would require me to download the kde development environment just to compile (I'm not on i386) and frankly this just became too much effort (and that's assuming it would work in the first place) as opposed to moving back to openbox or gnome or something.

Ah well, what happened to KDE being the desktop environment that was configurable?

that is really annoying that I can not easily configure some very basic desktop properties myself, but have to rely on some theme makers. Even windows is more configurable then this.

Something I would like to see: an Air-like theme that automatically adjusts to the widget theme's colour scheme, much like how Aya does. If a theme like this was the default/came with the default themes, it would be enough for me and, I think, many others.

Aya is good for its ability to change colours with the rest of your system, but otherwise it's just ugly.

*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

Created attachment 59683 [details]
taskbar with poor colours

This shows the almost invisible colours which can't be changed as there is no config option.

A simple(?) font colour change would resolve this.

OK, I acknowledge this is part gripe but I feel the owner of this bug needs to know.

I have been stalling using KDE4 until now (Natty) since KDE3/Trinity project is being wound down.

KDE4 is almost usable, but I am still of the opinion it is way too much style over function.

KDE3.5.10 is amazingly stable and very fast, KDE4 is neither of these things, though I'm sure the developers are working on this.

This reminds me of when Microsoft were attempting to obsolete XP for Vista (which went well, didn't it!)

Don't do this guys.
Don't be tarred with the same brush, eh?

"Wishlist": RESOLVED/WONTFIX is not acceptable.

This is loss of functionality as it was available in KDE3, so this is at least "Minor" and should have a solution.

(In reply to comment #6)

> Ah well, what happened to KDE being the desktop environment that was
> configurable?

The reason I use KDE and not Gnome is the attitude of "we know how you should work better than you do" is less prevalent in KDE. Excellent to have good defaults, better to make it easy to "reset to standard", but optimal to have a way to make it work the way you want.

For me, I want my panel dark - so I can have multiple clocks in different colors (dark font on light background is harder to distinguish colors than the other way around). I can only do that with a totally dark theme. I don't care if other people find my desktop attractive - I need it to be useful. Please reconsider allowing people the option to configure things themselves directly, not indirectly as a side effect of changes we don't really want :-).

Something that I admired (still, but in less measure) for KDE was the customization.
KDE 3.x was a perfect desktop for me, very customizable.
KDE 4 actually is really good, but something I can't stand yet, is the poor (or null) customization of plasma themes.
I've thinking about create a plasma theme that satify me, but I haven't time for that (and I don't know how to do it yet)

Come on dev, where is the "philosophy of customization"  that distinguishes you from others.

Regards.