Bug 186925

Summary:	Plasma theme (Oxygen) / panel lacks transparency since 4.2.1 upgrade
Product:	[Plasma] plasma4	Reporter:	Thilo-Alexander Ginkel <thilo>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	andresbajotierra, aseigo, christiandehne, drankinatty, finex, luisromangz, notmart
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Attachments:	Screenshot Screenshot of how the panel is supposed to look like

Description Thilo-Alexander Ginkel 2009-03-12 08:14:02 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.2.1)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

Since upgrading from KDE 4.2.0 to 4.2.1 the plasma panel is lacking its transparency effect and gets rendered in some blueish color instead when using the Oxygen theme. For details, refer to the attached screenshot.

I already tried changing a couple of settings, but enabling transparency worked only temporarily and disappeared again after the next logon.

Comment 1 Thilo-Alexander Ginkel 2009-03-12 08:14:43 UTC

Created attachment 32038 [details]
Screenshot

Comment 2 FiNeX 2009-03-12 19:57:13 UTC

Can you try with a clean user account too?

Comment 3 Thilo-Alexander Ginkel 2009-03-13 07:36:36 UTC

With a new user account (without a .kde directory) the problem seems to happen with a 100% chance. For my own account I managed to get the old settings back (I assume it is related to changing some Desktop Effect settings; DE were enabled in the new account, BTW), which now looks again like in the attached screenshot.

Comment 4 Thilo-Alexander Ginkel 2009-03-13 07:37:26 UTC

Created attachment 32064 [details]
Screenshot of how the panel is supposed to look like

Comment 5 Christian Trippe 2009-04-03 19:30:09 UTC

I have the same problem. It started with KDE 4.2.1 and is still present in 4.2.2 using openSUSE.

But for me it occurs only if I log in my KDE session when I am on battery power (powerdevil is configured to disable desktop effects in this case).

After having logged in on battery power, I find no way to get a transparent panel, after plugging in my power cable and having desktop effects enabled.
When I log in my KDE session while the power cable is plugged in, the panel is transparent. Now switching the desktop effects on and off changes the transparency.

Comment 6 Aaron J. Seigo 2009-04-28 20:37:39 UTC

yes, KSelectWatcher isn't working reliably :/

Comment 7 Dario Andres 2009-08-19 19:58:27 UTC

*** Bug 203332 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Dario Andres 2009-08-19 20:00:45 UTC

The problem Aaron pointed (and the one causing this behaviour on panels) is reported at bug 179042, and seems to be worked on.

Comment 9 Marco Martin 2009-08-28 20:51:25 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 179042 ***

Comment 10 Dario Andres 2009-11-01 15:19:09 UTC

*** Bug 212375 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***