Bug 191176

Version:            (using KDE 4.2.2)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

The problem:
Because my notebook's graphics card isn't capable of composite I cannot have a transparent panel. So at least I want to have a light panel and semi-transparent widgets (including the folder view applet). The latter is possible with the "Glassified" theme (though I wonder how because pseudo transparency isn't supported anymore), and there's a theme called "Atelier" which has a light grey panel when I use it on my notebook. So I went to the "Desktop Theme Details" section in the advanced system settings area to combine different themes (and yes, the desktop design is set to user defined).

Alas what I have in mind isn't possible in the theme details settings. Yes, I can set the panel design to use the source "Atelier" whereas all other sources remain "Glassified". But nonetheless I don't get a light grey panel as it is when I use the whole "Atelier" design, but a dark one.

So I figured out that it has to be the color scheme which also still is set to "Glassified" that prevents the panel from becoming light grey. And I changed the color scheme source to "Atelier". Et voilà - the panel turns light grey. But also all other widgets on the desktop. They remain kind of 10% transparent but are light grey. Whereas the folder view widget remains semi transparent but gets a dark font color so I cannot read the text anymore on my dark background picture.

When I have a dark background I need light/white font color for the text below the widgets and below the icons in the folder view. But when the widgets have a light color, which I prefer on a dark background, the font color within the widgets must be dark (except for the transparent = dark folder view). Which leads to a dark desktop font color - see the problem?

Expected behaviour:
Design elements of different themes should keep the theme's color scheme. So when I set e.g. the panel to use another theme it also should use the color scheme of that other theme.

Alternative:
Third row in the configuration dialog where the user can define the color scheme for every design element. So that it's possible to e.g. get a desktop with a dark panel, grey transparent folder view with dark font color, semi-transparent other widgets with white font and a red kickoff menu or something like that. 

At least a different color scheme for the panel/s and the rest of the widgets should be choosable because the panel is also treated different in other configuration things. And whereas the other widgets are capable of pseudo transparency the panel isn't.