Created attachment 135690 [details] picture 1 SUMMARY I am using a transparent theme in Plasma. When I choose "Color from window --> Disabled", the color and transparency are fine because they are taken from Plasma (see picture 1). But when I choose "Color from window --> Any touching window/Active window" the color is lighter than it should be (see picture 2). STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Use a transparent dark window theme 2. Choose Color from Window --> Any touching window OBSERVED RESULT Color is too light EXPECTED RESULT It should be the same as from the Plasma theme that is set for that window. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.78.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2
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To be more precise: The transparency option of Latte does not fit the transparency of the Plasma theme anymore. I had to set the transparency of Latte to 60% to perfectly match it with the Plasma theme. But this only works when "Color from window" is disabled. When it is enabled I can't set the transparency to match the Plasma theme anymore. No matter what setting I take, it always has this light color.
This is definitely related to Latte and not to Plasma this time. Please investigate!
I think the problem is that there is a white color added to the Panel when lowering the opacity setting while having "Color from window" enabled. This does not happen when having it disabled. I btw use the Harmony theme and have opactiy set to 60%, if you want to reproduce.
Okay this problem is hard to pin down. It is not related to "Color from window". It is related to the icon painting function. I think the easiest way to change this would be to provide an option to have the painting turned off when any window is touching the panel. I would like to paint only when the panel is transparent and use the plasma theme when the panel is not transparent.
I can not follow your explanation. Lets start from the beginning: 1. Show me a screenshot of your Appearance advanced settings 2. Have you installed in your system the Latte Window Colors script https://store.kde.org/p/1290287/ ? 3. Have you set your default window color scheme appropriately in order to provide the colors you want? For example the Window Titlebar background and textColors? 4. How do you gain that transparency in your windows? What window decoration are you using? aurorae? breeze? something else?
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2. Yes, of course. Coloring the windows works and I found out that the issue is not related to coloring. 3. Yes, I am experienced in forcing titlebar colors for programs. 4. I use the Plasma theme Harmony https://www.pling.com/s/Applications/p/1356763/ but it should not matter. I set the transparency of Latte to match the one from the theme by setting opacity to 60% and theme to Plasma. Then it works perfectly. If I set the theme to Smart though. It is lighter.
I use the window coloring to not have the completely white bar when the icon painting is currently black. It works to get the color, but the color is lighter as in picture 1.
Maybe it is easier to show you in a screencast...
yep, send me a screencast in order to understand through google drive, dropbox etc... try to avoid youtube for bad marketing reasons.
Created attachment 135705 [details] attachment-21447-0.html Here is the link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/jwmfx4kd22nrob0/Latte-screencast.webm?dl=0
Please do not make assumptions on what is the problem because I can not follow. From my understanding the problem is in your system: B1. Go to plasma systemsettings->application style->window decorations. What theme are you using for Window Decorations? B2. Go to plasma systemsettings->Colors->what color scheme have you chosen? B3. With your mouse go to [2] selected color scheme, end at the bottom right corner there is a pencil. Use the pencil to open Color Scheme editor. B4. After B3 search for the color of Active Titlebar. Is it set to dark? or even better to plasma theme background color?
Created attachment 135709 [details] attachment-24322-0.html B1. Harmony B2. Harmony B3. I tried that already B4. I tried that already ....and you were right again. I tried that yesterday and it didn't change anything. You know what the problem was? I still had old colors set from when I first played around with the automatic coloring. I had to remove them from the other applications. Strangely it also just worked after making a second color theme. Maybe the theme was broken. Anyway, sorry for wasting your time. I still believe that making assumptions is totally appropriate. Thank you!
And great: Now the Plasmashell people just have to fix the problem with the background color for the Picture of the Day mode and everything is perfect :)