Bug 340162

Summary:	Poor contrast in taskbar with Breeze
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	S <sb56637>
Component:	Theme - Breeze	Assignee:	Andrew Lake <jamboarder>
Status:	VERIFIED WAITINGFORINFO
Severity:	normal	CC:	EGriffith92, kde
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.1.0
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Attachments:	unreadable minimized items with Breeze theme qdbus org.kde.KWin /KWin org.kde.KWin.supportInformation

Description S 2014-10-20 15:31:58 UTC

Hi, please see the attached screenshot. Is there possibly an option I can use to improve the readability of items in the task manager? It is especially bad when a dark wallpaper is used. Thanks!

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 S 2014-10-20 15:32:45 UTC

Created attachment 89215 [details]
unreadable minimized items with Breeze theme

Comment 2 David Edmundson 2014-10-22 21:11:06 UTC

That's weird, you don't have compositing and it's not using the opaque background.

Is it still happening?

Can you past the output of
qdbus org.kde.KWin /KWin org.kde.KWin.supportInformation  please

Comment 3 S 2014-10-23 15:17:54 UTC

Created attachment 89282 [details]
qdbus org.kde.KWin /KWin org.kde.KWin.supportInformation

Comment 4 S 2014-10-23 15:19:45 UTC

Sorry for the delayed response. I posted the supportinformation file. With the latest openSUSE Factory updates from the Plasma5 repo, the problem continues.

Comment 5 David Edmundson 2014-10-23 15:23:43 UTC

Open Systemsettings -> Desktop Behavior -> Desktop Effects

Enable "Background Contrast"

Comment 6 S 2014-10-23 15:26:27 UTC

Very nice! That did the trick. Could this option possibly be enabled by default?
Thanks a lot!

Comment 7 David Edmundson 2014-10-23 15:27:01 UTC

>Could this option possibly be enabled by default?

It is.

No idea how yours got turned off.

Comment 8 S 2014-10-23 15:28:46 UTC

When I went to change it, the checkbox was in a half-checked state, not sure what what means.

Comment 9 S 2015-06-08 04:39:16 UTC

Apparently another occurrence of this bug (generating bad press for KDE) in this review:
http://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoronix-articles/804218-fedora-22-kde-delivers-a-great-plasma-5-experience?p=804263#post804263

Comment 10 Eric Griffith 2015-06-08 06:53:33 UTC

Hi there, author of the review referenced in comment 9. When I went into Desktop Effects mine was also marked with a half check. What's the difference between a half and full check for the configuration system?