Bug 204109

Summary:	Desktop taskbar is transparent on certain themes when using Kwin and not Compiz
Product:	[Plasma] plasma4	Reporter:	Caliburn <miketrml>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	andresbajotierra
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Caliburn 2009-08-17 02:17:26 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.3.0)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Unlisted Binary Package

The desktop taskbar appears transparent when using certain plasma themes in Kwin. However, on using these same certain themes in Compiz, the desktop taskbar suddenly loses it's transparency (ie. the new theme, Air).

Possible relation to bug 203595.

Using latest Arch Linux builds, KDE 4.3.0.

Comment 1 Caliburn 2009-08-17 04:58:44 UTC

It should be added to this: this is new as of 4.3.0. On 4.1, 4.2, 4.2.1, 4.2.2, 4.2.3, and 4.2.4 per my testing, no version presented this issue and Compiz sat alongside happily w/ KDE. This issue is completely new to 4.3.0 and was not evident on listed versions prior.

Comment 2 Caliburn 2009-08-17 05:00:26 UTC

For further notation, this does not appear to affect the Analog Clock, Folder View, or other desktop widgets transparency. Only the taskbar's transparency is affected by switching to Compiz.

Comment 3 Dario Andres 2009-08-19 05:12:23 UTC

Could you check if this is related/the same as bug 203332 ?
Thanks

Comment 4 Caliburn 2009-08-19 08:59:53 UTC

This does appear to be the same bug. I performed the steps listed within the initial message by David:

kbuildsycoca4
kquitapp plasma-desktop >/dev/null 2>&1
kstart plasma-desktop & >/dev/null 2>&1


.. in an open Yakuake terminal and things came back working with taskbar transparency. Thanks for the recommendation, Dario!

Comment 5 Caliburn 2009-08-19 09:03:23 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 203332 ***