Created attachment 137576 [details] "colors" drop-down SUMMARY Suggestion to give the opportunity to link a latte-panel to a certain installed plasma-theme to give it a permanent color. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Right-click on latte-panel 2. choose the second tab from the left in extended view (how the panel looks) 3. then go to colors. OBSERVED RESULT In the "colors" drop-down there is a choice between "Plasma", "Reverse" and "Smart". (attachment) EXPECTED RESULT Wouldn't it be nice if the word "Plasma" was replaced with "Current Plasma" (or so) and that the other installed plasma-themes also appeared in this drop-down so that you could choose this panel to always be dark or light e.g. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: KDE neon 5.21 KDE Plasma Version: 5.21.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.81.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 Kernel Version: 5.10.8-051008-generic OS Type: 64-bit Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 4 × Intel® Celeron® J4105 CPU @ 1.50GHz Memory: 7.4 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics 600 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Just choosing colors is not that simple in order to not break uniformity. The current options give you the possibility for something to be always dark or white. So the question is what youbare trying to achieve that it is not already possible?
Oh, that could be my bad. But would the color of the panel hold even if you started using an other plasma theme or desktop-wallpaper?
Oh, I think I see what you mean... But then perhaps uniformity wouldn't be broken if you added the choice "Dark" and "Light" next to "Plasma, Reverse and Smart"...
Hm, I have to think it. There was that proposal in the past but I cant remember what was the main objection.
Thank you! Example: I sometimes use a self-made latte-layout that mimics Gnome (3). It would be nice to have the opportunity to make the top-bar always black...
(In reply to PK from comment #5) > Thank you! Example: I sometimes use a self-made latte-layout that mimics > Gnome (3). It would be nice to have the opportunity to make the top-bar > always black... Isnt this already the case by choosing Reverse colors?
My second thoughts is that from layout designers point of view, Light, Dark might be necessary. When Latte layouts are published in public the designer does not know what plasma theme the user is using in its system. Having Light, Dark options it guarantees that the user will have a dark or light experience always. It falls to layout designers to disable autocoloring for applets that should not use autocoloring at all.
Git commit 8d0c26a2e145fb573d0b8d72c85221b91f59a084 by Michail Vourlakos. Committed on 14/04/2021 at 07:44. Pushed by mvourlakos into branch 'master'. provide Dark/Light Colors options --this way a layout designer can force to its users the desired color palette for each dock and panel. BeCareful: designers should be very careful with this because they take responsibility to disable latte auto-coloring at per-applet basis in order for chromatic applets to NOT be autocolored from latte because they already provide enough contrast. M +2 -0 containment/package/contents/config/main.xml M +5 -1 containment/package/contents/ui/colorizer/Manager.qml M +3 -1 containment/plugin/types.h M +41 -11 shell/package/contents/configuration/pages/AppearanceConfig.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/latte-dock/commit/8d0c26a2e145fb573d0b8d72c85221b91f59a084
enjoy...
Really great!