Bug 356280

Summary:	Option to disable panel transparency
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Josef Kufner <jk>
Component:	Theme - Breeze	Assignee:	visual-bugs-null
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	normal	CC:	kde, kde, plasma-bugs-null, vermette
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.4.3
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Debian unstable
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Josef Kufner 2015-12-04 15:52:38 UTC

Please add an option to disable transparency of panels when Breeze theme is used. This option should include alt-tab window swithing panel, menus, and all other stuff.

I find it very distracting when white panel overlaps window with few icons and I can see additional icons in my task list.

Thank you!

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 David Edmundson 2015-12-04 15:55:41 UTC

Transparency or not is a choice of the theme. 
There are plenty of themes without transparency which you can choose on kde-look.org

Comment 2 Ken Vermette 2015-12-04 16:15:02 UTC

Additionally, disabling compositing will remove several distractions, including animations, as well as removing transparency. 

One thing we could do is add an intensity option slider to the Kwin "Background Contrast" effect; with the extreme intensity effectively drowning out the background completely, only picking up a small amount of colour.

Comment 3 Kai Uwe Broulik 2015-12-04 16:27:17 UTC

Note that disabling composting takes away many benefits of offloading graphical computations to the GPU; it also is not possible on Wayland. 

Additionally, background contrast intensity is also a determined by the theme.

Comment 4 Josef Kufner 2015-12-04 16:28:00 UTC

Ah. I thought there are options for a theme just like there are options for window decorations. Sorry. 

I do not want to disable compositing because I would loose desktop grid and present windows effects which are very helpful.

Background contrast effect seems to help a bit. But it sounds like fixing a fix of something which is not broken :)

Is it possible to add such slider or checkbox to desktop theme settings, so it could work with any theme?