SUMMARY This bug is part of an ongoing effort to rethink the options available in System Settings. The end goal is to consolidate some obscure options to make Plasma feel simpler to use and improve the user experience. I was advised to make individual bug reports with my suggestions. More details with all the suggestions and talking points can be seen in this shared document: https://collaborate.kde.org/s/oEkdeYerKqaZNyC ------------ The Background Contrast Effect is meant to improve contrast in transparent regions to improve readability. Allowing users to disable it as a simple eye-candy effect creates the opportunity for people to unintentionally worsen the user experience. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: KDE neon Unstable Edition KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.80 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.91.0 Qt Version: 5.15.3 Kernel Version: 5.13.0-28-generic (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 6 × Intel® Core™ i5-9400F CPU @ 2.90GHz Memory: 7,6 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Radeon RX 570 Series
Yes, I think you're right. Using blur should just automatically enable this. Perhaps it could even be merged into the Blur effect.
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1) > Yes, I think you're right. Using blur should just automatically enable this. > Perhaps it could even be merged into the Blur effect. I think merging both is the best option. Disabling blur but keeping the contrast effect makes transparencies look really ugly. You can try that by yourself to see what it looks like.
Please DO NOT DO THIS until https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=451683 is fixed...
>The Background Contrast Effect is meant to improve contrast in transparent regions to improve readability Whilst that is true it does report the state to clients that are then meant to use opaque backgrounds. It shouldn't affect usability.