Bug 369671

Summary:	Tone down transparency of kicker/kickoff menu
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Gregor Mi <codestruct>
Component:	Theme - Breeze	Assignee:	visual-design
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	cfeck, jensreu, kde, plasma-bugs, sanjayksharma27
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.7.95
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Gregor Mi 2016-10-03 11:35:26 UTC

The current transparency on the kicker/kickoff menu is a bit too high for my old eyes. Can I somewhere tone down the transparency (and maybe reduce it to 0)?

This is what is currently looks like with the breeze dark theme:
Example 1: http://i.imgur.com/3Yabnhd.png
Example 2: http://i.imgur.com/l6uZWmi.png

Comment 1 Kai Uwe Broulik 2016-10-03 11:49:19 UTC

Enable blur and background contrast effects and/or use a proper graphics driver.

Comment 2 Gregor Mi 2016-10-03 12:05:23 UTC

1) I looked in the Desktop Effects KCM:
The "Blur" or "Background Contrast" effects are apparently "not supported by the compositor" (see also https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342934 -> https://bugsfiles.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=92061).

2) Can this be caused by the wrong graphics driver? (In other applications I use I experience no noticeable problems.) Is this maybe one of the things which Wayland will fix? :) Or would I still have to look for another driver?

Comment 3 Christoph Feck 2016-10-09 04:05:08 UTC

Kai, with the XRender backend neither of those effects are present.

Comment 4 Jens Reuterberg 2016-10-11 07:34:24 UTC

One way to solve this would be too turn off transparency completely when Blur/Background Contrast isn't enabled (for applauncher as well as panel etc) - but then again there are a few people who use it simply as is and I have no idea how tricky it is to create such a solution.