Bug 369671 - Tone down transparency of kicker/kickoff menu
Summary: Tone down transparency of kicker/kickoff menu
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Theme - Breeze (show other bugs)
Version: 5.7.95
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: visual-design
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Reported: 2016-10-03 11:35 UTC by Gregor Mi
Modified: 2019-07-08 06:42 UTC (History)
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Description Gregor Mi 2016-10-03 11:35:26 UTC 
The current transparency on the kicker/kickoff menu is a bit too high for my old eyes. Can I somewhere tone down the transparency (and maybe reduce it to 0)?

This is what is currently looks like with the breeze dark theme:
Example 1: http://i.imgur.com/3Yabnhd.png
Example 2: http://i.imgur.com/l6uZWmi.png
Comment 1 Kai Uwe Broulik 2016-10-03 11:49:19 UTC 
Enable blur and background contrast effects and/or use a proper graphics driver.
Comment 2 Gregor Mi 2016-10-03 12:05:23 UTC 
1) I looked in the Desktop Effects KCM:
The "Blur" or "Background Contrast" effects are apparently "not supported by the compositor" (see also https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342934 -> https://bugsfiles.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=92061).

2) Can this be caused by the wrong graphics driver? (In other applications I use I experience no noticeable problems.) Is this maybe one of the things which Wayland will fix? :) Or would I still have to look for another driver?
Comment 3 Christoph Feck 2016-10-09 04:05:08 UTC 
Kai, with the XRender backend neither of those effects are present.
Comment 4 Jens Reuterberg 2016-10-11 07:34:24 UTC 
One way to solve this would be too turn off transparency completely when Blur/Background Contrast isn't enabled (for applauncher as well as panel etc) - but then again there are a few people who use it simply as is and I have no idea how tricky it is to create such a solution.