SUMMARY Latte Dock has a feature that paints icons according to the wallpaper. This works well for the normal picture plugin, but not for POTD, since Latte takes the background color as reference. This could probably easily be changed by making the background color optional and putting the picture of the day in its place. It is not a POTD bug per se, but it can only be fixed from this side. I filed a bug about this years ago, but I can't find it anymore, so I am writing a new one. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Install Latte Dock, enable "smart colors based on desktop background" and icon painting by right-clicking the icons in edit mode and selecting the drop icon 2. Use POTD and change the pictures OBSERVED RESULT Icon painting does work only when you change the background color EXPECTED RESULT It should work when you change the picture SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.9 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.111.0 Qt Version: 5.15.11
I dont understand what you mean with making background color ooptional. Something needs to be painted where no picture is, there would be something there even if we remove the option. The normal wallpaper has the same option. To me it sounds more like this is a latte problem with its "smart detection" when POTD is enabled.
No it isn't https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=445643
Yes it is. The wallpaper of plasmashell can be *anything* it doesnt have to be a static image. It can be changing pictures, it can be a video, there is a plugin to run shaders, there is one that's just a clock, etc... The problem is not the background color option, it is that latte does not know for every wallpaper plugin what the final image will look like.
Did you follow the link to the old bug? It is all described there
This can also be considered a duplicate. I didn’t find the old bug, because the title was changed. It would be great if it could be resolved for Plasma 6 :)
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 445643 ***
Yes but it has nothing to do with background color in particular. It's a general problem for which you want a specalized solution only for slideshow.
It was just the only thing you observe from a user perspective