Bug 211617

Summary: Oxygen (and other) desktop theme translucency sanity request
Product: [Unmaintained] plasma4 Reporter: Fred Wells <fredcwells>
Component: generalAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Fedora RPMs   
OS: Unspecified   
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Attachments: oxygen theme translucency example

Description Fred Wells 2009-10-24 07:23:03 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.3.2)
Installed from:    Fedora RPMs

This is really a plea to all of the desktop theme designers out there for a more sane translucency design standard.  While translucency can be visually impressive, appealing and useful in many applications, it is also quite visually unimpressive and useless in some others; specifically, the Oxygen desktop theme panel pop-up dialogs.  The problem is when pop-up dialog text overlays window text (see attached translucency.jpg screenshot), it becomes difficult to read and is in my opinion quite unappealing, giving KDE a very unpolished, incoherent and unprofessional appearance.

For this very reason, these pop-up dialogs should be opaque by default. Where translucency is important to the theme, the designers should be cognizant of the visual implications and make the necessary color scheme, etc. adjustments to avoid the visual contention.
Comment 1 Fred Wells 2009-10-24 07:24:56 UTC 
Created attachment 37777 [details]
oxygen theme translucency example
Comment 2 Nate Graham 2018-06-08 20:19:57 UTC 
Hello!

This feature request was filed for KDE Plasma 4, which reached end-of-support status in August 2015. KDE Plasma 5's desktop shell has been almost completely rewritten for better performance and usability, so it is likely that this feature request is already implemented in Plasma 5, or is no longer applicable.

Accordingly, we hope you understand why we must close this feature request. If the requested feature is still desired but not implemented in KDE Plasma 5.12 or later, please feel free to open a new ticket in the "plasmashell" product after reading https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Bug_Reporting

If you would like to get involved in KDE's bug triaging effort so that future mass bug closes like this are less likely, please read https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved#Bug_Triaging

Thanks for your understanding!

Nate Graham