Bug 457498

Summary: Allow setting Floating and Adaptive Transparency panel settings via Desktop Scripting for Global Theme Layouts
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: The Feren OS Dev <ferenosdev>
Component: PanelAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: kde, nate, niccolo.venerandi, pieterkristensen
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.25.3   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/commit/089eb522d5598bb89bf184f4649a69417a732f31 Version Fixed/Implemented In: 6.0
Sentry Crash Report:

Description The Feren OS Dev 2022-08-04 22:07:28 UTC 
SUMMARY
Basically, the panel scripting thingy documented at https://userbase.kde.org/Plasma/How_to_create_a_Unity-like_look_and_feel_theme_using_Plasma%E2%80%99s_Desktop_Scripting_API has 0 way right now to give a newly birthed panel the Floating attribute, nor any of the non-default Adaptive Transparency values, despite everything I've tried (likely because of its positioning of the configs in plasmashellrc instead of plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc).

Even Global Theme Explorer's layout saver cannot save those attributes on panels.


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. N/A

OBSERVED RESULT
The inability to pre-set floating or solid/transparent adaptive transparency options in panels in Desktop Layouts

EXPECTED RESULT
The ability to pre-set floating or solid/transparent adaptive transparency options in panels in Desktop Layouts

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: 
macOS: 
Linux/KDE Plasma: KDE neon 5.25
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.25.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.96.0
Qt Version: 5.15.5

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Two fixes I can think of are: Either move the configuration over to the plasma-...-appletsrc file instead of plasmashellrc, or allow scripting to change the values, for newly created panels we store as variables in our desktop-generation script, in plasmashellrc as well.
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2023-09-29 14:33:51 UTC 
*** Bug 465746 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Nate Graham 2023-11-06 19:48:26 UTC 
Fixed bi Niccolò Venerandi with https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/commit/089eb522d5598bb89bf184f4649a69417a732f31 for Plasma 6.0!
Comment 3 The Feren OS Dev 2023-11-06 19:49:37 UTC 
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #2)
> Fixed bi Niccolò Venerandi with
> https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/commit/
> 089eb522d5598bb89bf184f4649a69417a732f31 for Plasma 6.0!

I don't think this accounts for Adaptive Transparency, though, unless I'm mistaken - haven't had time yet to compile and check in a VM.
Comment 4 The Feren OS Dev 2025-03-24 22:56:31 UTC 
Fixed by https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/4685