I have a top panel which I like to have transparent and blurred while no window is maximized. While this worked nicely until recently some update must have changed something (sorry for being so unspecific but I just don't really know). Now when I enable blur and have the background size set to 100, the background will always be just plain black although transparency is at 70. Now I can either disable blur or decrease the background below 100 and the panel will be transparent again. I can also do both but neither is an agreeable setting for me. And I also noted that the type will change automatically between dock and panel depending on the background size but I am not sure whether this is related.
Created attachment 114423 [details] Screenshots showing the problem
Just saw this a duplicate of https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=397363 Sorry about that!
(In reply to Don from comment #2) > Just saw this a duplicate of https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=397363 > > Sorry about that! And I think https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=397204 might be related too. Possibly the dock/panel switch might be involved after all. Now that I think about it, the bug appeared when I first selected the Panel type. Before that I think nothing was selected (neither dock nor panel).
I need steps to reproduce, I dont have such behavior in my system... first step could be to add a new dock with default settings...
*** Bug 397204 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 397363 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
or even better you can send me your layouts and steps to reproduce for them... This is probably a setting that interacts and hasnt been taken into account and it isnt from the obvious one...
There is also a commit concerning blur: https://phabricator.kde.org/R878:2034d07c8e5dfece24b54fc6abbff2be2adfefdf I dont know if this fixes it for you, if someone could test with master branch or v0.8.x branch could confirm if this issue is still valid
Created attachment 114523 [details] My layout Using active window control, otherwise no special widgets
I am using version 0.8 on Manjaro Linux. To reproduce in my Layout just disable Solid background while also enabling blur and have background size at 100%. Anyway, this is what I wanted to write as I was able to reproduce the bug like this 100% of the time. Just now, when I tried it again for my comment, the problem is gone. The only thing I've changed is my Plasma theme. I went from Breeze Dark to Arc Dark (which is kvatum theme) and the problem is gone. I am not able to test further tonight but maybe it is related...
Git commit 78b41eff914e565041598e2777a2eaaa98f74a8f by Michail Vourlakos. Committed on 20/08/2018 at 21:51. Pushed by mvourlakos into branch 'master'. use current transparency to update effects --the background contrast effect should be applied only when the dock/panel is visually solid otherwise it may block the transparency settings FIXED-IN: v0.8.1 M +4 -1 app/dock/dockview.cpp M +6 -0 containment/package/contents/ui/PanelBox.qml M +1 -1 containment/package/contents/ui/VisibilityManager.qml M +3 -1 containment/package/contents/ui/main.qml https://commits.kde.org/latte-dock/78b41eff914e565041598e2777a2eaaa98f74a8f
Git commit 2bf6d36acbc4d50b679ebb11712eb653abf39edf by Michail Vourlakos. Committed on 20/08/2018 at 21:53. Pushed by mvourlakos into branch 'v0.8'. use current transparency to update effects --the background contrast effect should be applied only when the dock/panel is visually solid otherwise it may block the transparency settings FIXED-IN: v0.8.1 (cherry picked from commit 78b41eff914e565041598e2777a2eaaa98f74a8f) M +4 -1 app/dock/dockview.cpp M +6 -0 containment/package/contents/ui/PanelBox.qml M +1 -1 containment/package/contents/ui/VisibilityManager.qml M +3 -1 containment/package/contents/ui/main.qml https://commits.kde.org/latte-dock/2bf6d36acbc4d50b679ebb11712eb653abf39edf
ok... fixed, background contrast kwin effect was activated at cases that it shouldnt because it breaks opacity settings otherwise.
Thank you so much Michail! Great work you are doing with Latte, I could not be happier with it!