Bug 361228

Created attachment 98169 [details]
left 5.5, right 5.6 folderview-desktop

Can you show an example of a problematic background? We changed it after testing with many different kinds of backgrounds, and the shadow version was universally preferred so far.

Created attachment 98184 [details]
bad readability on 4 backgrounds

Mostly black+white things. so many "normal" anime/manga backgrounds gives us hard readability on many screens.

i'm also a little shoked that you even tried this... after all this translucenty, blurry things on windows and KDE Plamsa 1 that makes it hard to read text somewhere. after all Plasma distros are choosing a more "solid" dark plasma theme instead of the translucent white(exept for KaOS, who choose a solid, white one and some who only ship vanilla packages). it should be clear that nobody wants this, but a always good readable thing like it finally was with the last versions of kde plasma
:(

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issue reported here is still valid for plasma 5.14.2.

Meanwhile the users can add the 'boxes' back. An example: https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=289&t=131951&p=407379#p407379

I also would prefer not to go back to the old style for simple aesthetic reasons, though I acknowledge that it was probably better with busy backgrounds.

Maybe we should make the shadow a tad bigger?

Created attachment 116378 [details]
Tweaked shadows

Tweaking the shadows is thankfully pretty trivial (you can do so yourself by editing /usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.desktopcontainment/contents/ui/FolderItemDelegate.qml, see line 411).

Here's a tweak (radius 12, spread 0.3) on top of my favorite torture test background. Seems a bit better; would that suffice?

Here's a speculative patch: https://phabricator.kde.org/D16968

Git commit 10278e79f11677bd59f7d554eb8e18e580686082 by Nate Graham.
Committed on 27/11/2018 at 14:16.
Pushed by ngraham into branch 'Plasma/5.12'.

[Folder View] improve label contrast against challenging backgrounds

Summary:
Currently the shadow behind Folder View items' labels is very subtle. This leads to poor contrast against wallpapers that are light-colored, visually busy, or both.

This patch attempts to improve the situation by tightening up the shadow so that it looks more like a subtle, tasteful outline.
FIXED-IN: 5.12.8

Test Plan:
Folder View items against various wallpapers:
{F6439459, size="full"}

{F6439458, size="full"}

{F6439463, size="full"}

{F6439457, size="full"}

{F6439456, size="full"}

{F6439455, size="full"}

{F6439454, size="full"}

{F6439453, size="full"}

{F6439452, size="full"}

{F6439451, size="full"}

Folder View items against the default wallpaper:
{F6439449, size="full"}

Reviewers: #plasma, hein, #vdg

Reviewed By: #plasma, hein

Subscribers: abetts, svenmauch, matheusm, filipf, emateli, mart, plasma-devel

Tags: #plasma

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D16968

M  +5    -5    containments/desktop/package/contents/ui/FolderItemDelegate.qml

https://commits.kde.org/plasma-desktop/10278e79f11677bd59f7d554eb8e18e580686082