Bug 472887

Summary:	When placed at the top, panel places a shadow on top of windows.
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	jakubby
Component:	Panel	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	jakubby, niccolo.venerandi, noahadvs
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	master
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Kubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	I think it introduces too much contrast, I also assume it's maybe fixed in the newer version of kde plasma. I'll check tomorrow.

Description jakubby 2023-08-01 16:06:48 UTC

SUMMARY

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Add a new empty panel.

OBSERVED RESULT
Heavy shadow is casted at the top of the screen.

EXPECTED RESULT
Either a lighter effect or else.
This isn't impacted by the "window shadow" option in breeze, under "appearance of windows" section in "appearance".
Even if it would remove the shadow effect under all windows, which isn't the point.


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: 
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.7
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.92.0
Qt Version: 5.15.3

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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Comment 1 jakubby 2023-08-01 20:45:25 UTC

Created attachment 160670 [details]
I think it introduces too much contrast, I also assume it's maybe fixed in the newer version of kde plasma. I'll check tomorrow.

Comment 2 Noah Davis 2023-08-02 01:05:09 UTC

I'm pretty sure this is intentional behavior in the sense that everything is working correctly. The shadow is part of the Plasma theme. In order to remove or change the shadow, you have to modify the Plasma theme or choose a different Plasma theme. Still, I agree that it could look better. It seems like this bug report would also be solved by solving https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=427668, so I will mark this as a duplicate of that one.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 427668 ***