Bug 277250 - digital clock date color does not follow plasma theme
Summary: digital clock date color does not follow plasma theme
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Oxygen
Classification: Plasma
Component: general (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: unspecified
Platform: Unlisted Binaries Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Reported: 2011-07-07 00:24 UTC by S. Burmeister
Modified: 2026-02-13 08:19 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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screenshot of the clock (21.19 KB, image/png)
2011-07-07 00:24 UTC, S. Burmeister
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not cropped on top and right but no distance to screen edge (9.18 KB, image/png)
2011-07-07 09:05 UTC, S. Burmeister
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Default clock in default panel in 4.8 RC1 (4.21 KB, image/png)
2011-12-29 17:45 UTC, Anne-Marie Mahfouf
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Snapshot of the clock in 4.10 (3.91 KB, image/png)
2013-02-08 04:37 UTC, BT
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Description S. Burmeister 2011-07-07 00:24:19 UTC
Created attachment 61659 [details]
screenshot of the clock

Version:           unspecified (using Devel) 
OS:                Linux

KDE 4.7 RC1's clock is now white for the time, yet the date is still black (and I gues it does not have any shadow either). Further the digits are too big or placed in an not optimal way, i.e. they touch the screen edge.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
use the clock

Actual Results:  
bad placement
inconsistent look
hardly visible date

Expected Results:  
the opposite of the actual result I'd guess, wouldn't I?
Comment 1 S. Burmeister 2011-07-07 09:05:19 UTC
Created attachment 61668 [details]
not cropped on top and right but no distance to screen edge
Comment 2 Médéric Boquien 2011-07-31 20:47:04 UTC
I confirm the problem. I guess there is an obvious bug somewhere. If you click on Digital clock settings and then on Custom font color, withoout touching anything else, not only does it change the color (expected) but it also changes the size of the font back to a reasonable size.
Comment 3 Kolia 2011-12-07 22:08:01 UTC
It looks much better here in kde 4.7.3. Do you still experience this issue with a recent version of KDE?
Comment 4 Kolia 2011-12-19 21:30:36 UTC
Please feel free to reopen this report if you still experience this bug on a recent version of KDE :)
Comment 5 S. Burmeister 2011-12-29 11:37:51 UTC
Please test before closing!

It's not that difficult to enable the date and see that it is still black whereas all other digits within the clock are white, at least with KDE's default theme.
Comment 6 Anne-Marie Mahfouf 2011-12-29 17:45:04 UTC
Created attachment 67226 [details]
Default clock in default panel in 4.8 RC1
Comment 7 Anne-Marie Mahfouf 2011-12-29 17:45:23 UTC
Is there still a problem?
Comment 8 S. Burmeister 2011-12-30 10:40:27 UTC
To quote myself: "enable the date and see that it is still black".

Also visible here: http://kamikazow.wordpress.com/2011/12/27/very-short-4-8-first-look-from-a-users-perspective/

So yes, there is still the problem that the date is black while everything else is white and hence the date's colour is inconsistent with time's colour. Same for the timezone.
Comment 9 Anne-Marie Mahfouf 2011-12-30 16:23:14 UTC
Sorry, indeed I see it now...
Comment 10 Anne-Marie Mahfouf 2011-12-30 16:38:44 UTC
changing the title to be accurate
Comment 11 Anne-Marie Mahfouf 2011-12-30 17:34:17 UTC
The bug only occurs in Air theme, can you check if this is true for you as well?
Comment 12 S. Burmeister 2011-12-30 18:28:32 UTC
(In reply to comment #11)
> The bug only occurs in Air theme, can you check if this is true for you as
> well?

Confirmed. Should this bug be re-assigned to the oxygen theme then?
Comment 13 Anne-Marie Mahfouf 2011-12-30 19:07:35 UTC
yes, reassigning
Comment 14 BT 2013-02-08 04:37:57 UTC
Created attachment 77004 [details]
Snapshot of the clock in 4.10

This is still present in 4.10 with the default plasma Air theme.
Comment 15 BT 2013-04-15 10:23:07 UTC
I have tracked this issue down to commit 89023825bc[1] in 'kde-runtime/desktoptheme/air/widgets'. The commit only adds a file named labeltexture.svgz. I'm not sure what it does but it appears to be unique to the Air theme.

To confirm I checked out the previous commit ef1f9f9fa9 which doesn't have this issue. I then added the labeltexture.svgz file to the Air theme directory and re-loaded the theme. Somehow this issue is caused by the addition of this file.

To correct the original bug report, it's the time and not the date that isn't respecting the theme colour scheme.

[1] https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kde-runtime/repository/revisions/89023825bc808bb0759a0e035318c0fcd3badac6
Comment 16 BT 2013-08-29 06:05:24 UTC
Unfortunately this issue is still present in 4.11.
Comment 17 Filip Fila 2026-02-13 08:19:25 UTC
Can't confirm in Plasma 6 - the clock's color seem fine at all times.