Bug 433412

Summary:	No way to turn off transparency
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Bob English <bobofenglish>
Component:	general	Assignee:	David Edmundson <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	mikel5764, plasma-bugs-null
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.21.0
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:	5.22.0
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Bob English 2021-02-22 03:53:23 UTC

SUMMARY


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. open app launcher
2. look at it
3. no setting to turn off, or adjust transparency

OBSERVED RESULT
Kickoff is too transparent

EXPECTED RESULT
having a setting to make it more opaque, or turn off transparency altogether.

Operating System: EndeavourOS
KDE Plasma Version: 5.21.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.79.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.10.16-arch1-1
OS Type: 64-bit
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz
Memory: 31.3 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: GeForce GTX 1050/PCIe/SSE2

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Thanks for all of the great work you do to make Plasma the best desktop of the universe!  Sorry, but my eyes are not what they used to be, and having anything in the foreground transparent, rather than things in the background is an odd choice:  It should be the opposite way arround.  IOW: when opening the application launcher, I don't mind if everything else would become transparent, but the launcher I am tring to use should be opaque, so everything in it is clearly visible.

Comment 1 Mikel Johnson 2021-02-22 08:45:05 UTC

You can disable transparency in settings

> and having anything in the foreground transparent, rather than things in the background is an odd choice

not sure what you mean, please attach a screenshot

Comment 2 Bob English 2021-02-23 03:00:50 UTC

(In reply to Mikel Johnson from comment #1)
> You can disable transparency in settings
> 
> > and having anything in the foreground transparent, rather than things in the background is an odd choice
> 
> not sure what you mean, please attach a screenshot

Where exactly?  I looked in the application launcher settings as well as in the system settings, where I already have transparency turned off (effects), I see nowhere else to turn off transparency specifically for the app launcher, and since I have the only transparency option there is turned off already, then it's obviously not doing it either.

Foreground vs background is hard to understand?  When I use the new application menu it's in the foreground and transparent, making it hard to read, with any window with lots of text showing through it from the background.

I am not a newb, and been using KDE for nearly 7 years, there is no setting where I should expect it, and I looked in more unlikely locations too, there is nowhere to turn off transparency for the application launcher, and you don't need a screen shot, just set your desktop to breeze dark load up a bright wallpaper and see for yourself.

Comment 3 Mikel Johnson 2021-02-23 09:31:47 UTC

oh, I see, sorry for misunderstanding

hopefully https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/plasma-framework/-/merge_requests/119 can be modified to allow to always disable opacity (unfortunately would only be fixed in breeze though), alternatively you can find a few opaque themes in the store

Comment 4 Mikel Johnson 2021-03-04 10:58:38 UTC

Fixed by https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/commit/6fb37dc0260c298bc35ec5e39399aa1f31693e79 in Plasma 5.22

Comment 5 Bob English 2021-03-04 11:04:03 UTC

(In reply to Mikel Johnson from comment #4)
> Fixed by
> https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/commit/
> 6fb37dc0260c298bc35ec5e39399aa1f31693e79 in Plasma 5.22

Groovethonish!!!

Thanks to all who worked on it!  KDE and Plasma rocks!