The hint-tile-center option has stopped working, at least in the translucent panel-background.svgz and the standard widget background.svgz. It may well not work in other widget backgrounds, but these are the two I have tried. It is worth noting that in the tutorial https://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Plasma5/ThemeDetails hint-tile-center is still discussed. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Copy one of the standard themes to .local/share/plasma/desktoptheme/ 2. Edit metadata.desktop: change the name of the theme so that it is identifiable in System Settings. 3. Edit widgets/background.svgz: a) locate the object with id="center" b) use the fill and stroke tool to give the object a gradient (if "center" is a group object, it will be necessary to make the gradient on one of the group's members). c) if there is not already an object called hint-tile-center, duplicate one of the other hint objects, (e.g."hint-stretch-borders") and change the id to hint-tile-center. d) save the file. 4. Open System Settings>Workspace Theme>Desktop Theme 5. Select the theme that was renamed in step 2. 6. Click "Apply". Actual Results: Widgets such as Folderviews, Network Monitor and Thermal Monitor will display the background stretched across the entire widget. Expected Results: The background should be tiled across the widgets. Using a gradient is a simple example to demonstrate the bug. I have also obtained similar results using a freehand path within the center group.
can't reproduce, tiling is fine. make sure you removed the cache at ~/.cache/plasma*
Thanks for the feedback and advice Marco; however removing the caches had no effect for me. Could you let me know which standard theme you used as a base to modify, and I will try that? Also, I'm wondering if it could be an OpenSuse problem. I am on Leap 42.2.
I tried with widgets/background.svgz, making the center tile (and add a little colored square in the center element to visually check) there is no difference between theme elements, if it works in one, it works in all of them.