SUMMARY The highlight asset used to indicate focus for things like the Application Menu or clock is drawn on top of the icon. For the Breeze theme, which is only an opaque line at the top, this has a negligible effect. In the case of a full-frame opaque highlight, this would mean that the icon is no longer visible. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Install and apply a theme with a full-frame highlight asset (I used Willow Light) 2. Click the Kickoff icon in the panel to open it (clock and show desktop are also options) 3. OBSERVED RESULT The highlight asset is drawn over the icon. Since it is white, the icon slightly fades out. EXPECTED RESULT Like the task manager, the highlight should be drawn underneath. Operating System: KDE neon Testing Edition KDE Plasma Version: 5.25.90 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.99.0 Qt Version: 5.15.6 Kernel Version: 5.15.0-48-generic (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION It would be nice to have this functionality through theme control. A glassy overlay for the Application Menu icon when clicked would look rather nice. Same for the task manager.
Should be an easy fix
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/1288
Git commit c4adcea2eb50b78b42d75932ffddfe1b53c1ab3e by Niccolò Venerandi. Committed on 06/01/2023 at 15:08. Pushed by niccolove into branch 'master'. Draw the highlight of pressed widgets underneath the icon of the applet M +1 -0 desktoppackage/contents/applet/CompactApplet.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/commit/c4adcea2eb50b78b42d75932ffddfe1b53c1ab3e