Bug 377961

Summary:	hint-tile-center does not work in Plasma desktopthemes
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] libplasma	Reporter:	Ian Smith <iansamit>
Component:	libplasma	Assignee:	Marco Martin <notmart>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	minor	CC:	iansamit
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.26.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Ian Smith 2017-03-22 22:07:25 UTC

The hint-tile-center option has stopped working, at least in the translucent panel-background.svgz and the standard widget background.svgz. It may well not work in other widget backgrounds, but these are the two I have tried.

It is worth noting that in the tutorial https://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Plasma5/ThemeDetails hint-tile-center is still discussed.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Copy one of the standard themes to .local/share/plasma/desktoptheme/
2. Edit metadata.desktop: change the name of the theme so that it is identifiable in System Settings.
3. Edit widgets/background.svgz:
a) locate the object with id="center"
b) use the fill and stroke tool to give the object a gradient (if "center" is a group object, it will be necessary to make the gradient on one of the group's members).
c) if there is not already an object called hint-tile-center, duplicate one of the other hint objects, (e.g."hint-stretch-borders") and change the id to hint-tile-center.
d) save the file.
4. Open System Settings>Workspace Theme>Desktop Theme
5. Select the theme that was renamed in step 2.
6. Click "Apply".

Actual Results:
Widgets such as Folderviews, Network Monitor and Thermal Monitor will display the background stretched across the entire widget.

Expected Results:
The background should be tiled across the widgets.

Using a gradient is a simple example to demonstrate the bug. I have also obtained similar results using a freehand path within the center group.

Comment 1 Marco Martin 2017-03-24 13:18:45 UTC

can't reproduce, tiling is fine.
make sure you removed the cache at ~/.cache/plasma*

Comment 2 Ian Smith 2017-03-26 06:12:07 UTC

Thanks for the feedback and advice Marco; however removing the caches had no effect for me.

Could you let me know which standard theme you used as a base to modify, and I will try that?

Also, I'm wondering if it could be an OpenSuse problem. I am on Leap 42.2.

Comment 3 Marco Martin 2017-03-27 09:00:11 UTC

I tried with widgets/background.svgz, making the center tile (and add a little colored square in the center element to visually check)
there is no difference between theme elements, if it works in one, it works in all of them.