SUMMARY Basically, the panel scripting thingy documented at https://userbase.kde.org/Plasma/How_to_create_a_Unity-like_look_and_feel_theme_using_Plasma%E2%80%99s_Desktop_Scripting_API has 0 way right now to give a newly birthed panel the Floating attribute, nor any of the non-default Adaptive Transparency values, despite everything I've tried (likely because of its positioning of the configs in plasmashellrc instead of plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc). Even Global Theme Explorer's layout saver cannot save those attributes on panels. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. N/A OBSERVED RESULT The inability to pre-set floating or solid/transparent adaptive transparency options in panels in Desktop Layouts EXPECTED RESULT The ability to pre-set floating or solid/transparent adaptive transparency options in panels in Desktop Layouts SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Windows: macOS: Linux/KDE Plasma: KDE neon 5.25 (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: 5.25.3 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.96.0 Qt Version: 5.15.5 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Two fixes I can think of are: Either move the configuration over to the plasma-...-appletsrc file instead of plasmashellrc, or allow scripting to change the values, for newly created panels we store as variables in our desktop-generation script, in plasmashellrc as well.
*** Bug 465746 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Fixed bi Niccolò Venerandi with https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/commit/089eb522d5598bb89bf184f4649a69417a732f31 for Plasma 6.0!
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #2) > Fixed bi Niccolò Venerandi with > https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/commit/ > 089eb522d5598bb89bf184f4649a69417a732f31 for Plasma 6.0! I don't think this accounts for Adaptive Transparency, though, unless I'm mistaken - haven't had time yet to compile and check in a VM.