Created attachment 176347 [details] four sized panel widget I like to have a panel on the top of the screen that autohides and contains the systemtray wheater widget and that sort of things. On the bottom of the screen I like to have a somewhat larger panel with some application starters in it the icon for the application dashboard and a analog clock widget. The lower panel can be much more translucent than the upper one. To get this done I took the system Breeze Dark theme as reference and tinkered the panel widget of the first attachment. I use a customize "colors" file in this plasma desktop theme and that does the job well. Only, when I switch to "transparency" in the panel settings this color suddenly disappears and I have a fully colorless panel. Also, the moment I change the transparency of the "north", "south", "east" of "west" part of my panel all color disappears. I have the feeling this is not expected behaviour... Operating System: KDE neon 6.2 KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.3 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.8.0 Qt Version: 6.8.0 Kernel Version: 6.8.0-49-generic (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-6300U CPU @ 2.40GHz Memory: 7.6 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 520 Manufacturer: Dell Inc. Product Name: Latitude 5480
Created attachment 176348 [details] colors file that works until transparency comes in the game this is the colors file that really does the job well until transparency enters the game. Be it by the panel configuration or by adding some transparency by hand to the "north", "south", "east" or "west" part of the panel-background.svgz file.
Created attachment 176354 [details] panel-background.svgz with a lot of corrections made I made a lot of corrections in the panel-background.svgz file. With the north, south, east and west stuff. I'm glad that it made no difference for this bug. The new one acted the same.
Created attachment 176356 [details] simple panel-background widget works I took the panel-background widget out of the "default" plasma theme and made it a little transparent. That can be rendered transparent with color. Perhaps the north, south, east and west thing doesn't work 100%, perhaps I'm doing it wrong.
Is there a reference north, south, east, west panel-background widget that I can look into?
The plasma theme has *multiple* panel background SVGs. One for normal panel, one for transparent panel, and one for when there's no compositor. You should edit all of them if you don't want colors to change!
I will definitely try that. Thank you for your reaction. Perhaps Iḿ allmost there!
I tried but no succes. What DOES work 100% is a little more "dirty" approach. In the folder /widgets of the plasma theme i raplacs the file panel-background.svgz by the one I just attached. It has color of it's own. It works completely as expected.
Created attachment 176376 [details] 100% functional 4 side panel-background widget
Created attachment 176377 [details] greenish "colors" file to make it complete