Bug 481291

Summary: feature request: ability to change plasma panel color graphically
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: anton255260
Component: PanelAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: wishlist CC: fanzhuyifan, nate, niccolo.venerandi
Priority: NOR    
Version: 5.93.0   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description anton255260 2024-02-13 12:19:48 UTC 
SUMMARY
Changing the panel color is a trivial task in certain desktop environments (XFCE, MATE) and yet in KDE there is no way to do such a thing without having to manually edit certain files (color palette/panel's svg). It would have been great to have such functionality exposed to the user in a welcoming way.
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2024-02-14 19:28:42 UTC 
We can't do without removing general themability, because Plasma themes affect far more than just the Panel's background color; they can use totally different graphics for it entirely.
Comment 2 anton255260 2024-02-14 19:39:28 UTC 
Then is it impossible to introduce any way of doing those changes, at least for the default Plasma theme? Maybe some sort of "configuration" window that could generate a modified variant of the theme?
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2024-02-14 19:45:12 UTC 
We're not planning to do that, sorry. There is an existing customization system for changing your Plasma appearance, and if we introduce too much visual customizability on top of it, we're undermining it and making it work less well.