Yesterday I received Plasma 6.5 on my Neon User Edition machine. All transparent desktop-elements (kwin menu's, panel, widgets, plasmoids, menu dashboard) have the "ContrastEffect" enabled behind them. This effect could be activated before by editing the file plasmarc in het root-folder of a plasma-theme in ~/.local/share/plasma/desktopthemes/myTheme By default it is not activated. I don't know where the error lies (upstream? Neon-build). But it doesn't look right. SUMMARY ContrastEffect behind transparent desktop-elements allways active in Plasma 6.5 STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Start Plasma 6.5 OBSERVED RESULT All transparent desktop-elements have the ContrastEffect activated in their background. This makes imho the whole desktop look less fresh and crispy EXPECTED RESULT if the ContrastEffect is not turned on (default) is should not work Operating System: KDE neon User Edition KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.0 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.19.0 Qt Version: 6.9.2 Kernel Version: 6.14.0-33-generic (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-6300U CPU @ 2.40GHz Memory: 8 GiB of RAM (7.6 GiB usable) Graphics Processor: Intel® HD Graphics 520 Manufacturer: Dell Inc. Product Name: Latitude 5480 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Created attachment 185988 [details] desktop with panel plasma 6.4 This is a screenshot of the desktop (with panel) from plasma 6.4
Created attachment 185989 [details] Screenshot of the desktop (with panel) from plasma 6.5 Same as above: screenshot of the desktop (with panel) but from plasma 6.5
Created attachment 185990 [details] transparent konsole plasma 6.4 transparent konsole plasma 6.4
Created attachment 185991 [details] transparent konsole plasma 6.5 Same as previous transparent konsole plasma but then plasma 6.5. Notice the coloration through the transparent konsole.
Created attachment 185992 [details] dashboard menu plasma 6.4 Dashboard menu plasma 6.4
Created attachment 185993 [details] dashboard menu plasma 6.5 dashboard menu plasma 6.5. Again the background is strangely colored imho...
There seems to be a bugrapport of this item https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=510818 And in reddit there is an item about it https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/1od8jm4/plasma_65_blur_changed_and_looks_strangewrong_was/ I don't at all recognize kde/plasma in this change. The whole thing became ugly and there is no choice.