After update to 6.6.0, the "dim screen" feature of the shutdown confirmation dialog has changed color and now looks "washed out", whereas before it was a subtle, nice black (shadow vignette) color. It looks very ugly, but I'm not sure if this is a bug or an intentional change. Please let me know. Thanks. Operating System: Arch Linux KDE Plasma Version: 6.6.0 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.23.0 Qt Version: 6.10.2 Kernel Version: 6.18.9-arch1-2 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland
The visual change wasn't intentional, but it was a logical consequence of a technical change that was intentional. I agree that the result looks worse.
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/6344
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/3571
Git commit 17df4bb8c2e3e1d0f2b51375479013e155267d0f by Nate Graham. Committed on 23/02/2026 at 16:40. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'. Logout: hardcode black background color Because it has transparency, anything other than black looks bad. This means the background color from the complementary color set is inappropriate here; just hardcode black instead. We don't hardcode the foreground color for text because it's used for icon coloration too, and those have to match. Hence any user complaints about illegible icons are bugs in their color scheme's complementary text color. FIXED-IN: 6.6.1 M +4 -1 lookandfeel/org.kde.breeze/contents/logout/Logout.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/commit/17df4bb8c2e3e1d0f2b51375479013e155267d0f
Git commit 322503ff1101f9ab180a6a5a6897aa65ad694e16 by Nate Graham. Committed on 23/02/2026 at 16:40. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'. applets/kicker: hardcode black background color in dashboard Because it has transparency, anything other than black looks bad. This means the background color from the complementary color set is inappropriate here; just hardcode black instead. We don't hardcode the foreground color for text because it's used for icon coloration too, and those have to match. Hence any user complaints about illegible icons are bugs in their color scheme's complementary text color. FIXED-IN: 6.6.1 M +5 -1 applets/kicker/DashboardRepresentation.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/commit/322503ff1101f9ab180a6a5a6897aa65ad694e16
Git commit f3bb3e9ee0abaa438a23e8236beaa4d8ce5afbc7 by Nate Graham. Committed on 23/02/2026 at 16:51. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'Plasma/6.6'. applets/kicker: hardcode black background color in dashboard Because it has transparency, anything other than black looks bad. This means the background color from the complementary color set is inappropriate here; just hardcode black instead. We don't hardcode the foreground color for text because it's used for icon coloration too, and those have to match. Hence any user complaints about illegible icons are bugs in their color scheme's complementary text color. FIXED-IN: 6.6.1 (cherry picked from commit 322503ff1101f9ab180a6a5a6897aa65ad694e16) Co-authored-by: Nate Graham <nate@kde.org> M +5 -1 applets/kicker/DashboardRepresentation.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/commit/f3bb3e9ee0abaa438a23e8236beaa4d8ce5afbc7
Git commit 8ac34d033971cc74c8597a1e05e77ae3483193dd by Nate Graham. Committed on 23/02/2026 at 16:51. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'Plasma/6.6'. Logout: hardcode black background color Because it has transparency, anything other than black looks bad. This means the background color from the complementary color set is inappropriate here; just hardcode black instead. We don't hardcode the foreground color for text because it's used for icon coloration too, and those have to match. Hence any user complaints about illegible icons are bugs in their color scheme's complementary text color. FIXED-IN: 6.6.1 (cherry picked from commit 17df4bb8c2e3e1d0f2b51375479013e155267d0f) Co-authored-by: Nate Graham <nate@kde.org> M +4 -1 lookandfeel/org.kde.breeze/contents/logout/Logout.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/commit/8ac34d033971cc74c8597a1e05e77ae3483193dd
For those with transparency disabled where possible, continuing to adhere to the colour scheme might be helpful. I've certainly no use for transparency (although I also like that the chosen solution is black).
I think that's unrelated to the issue this was reporting; there was transparency before, and there's still transparency now. Nothing about the level of transparency has changed.
It would be nice if the level of transparency for blurred UI elements was globally themable, but that's a separate topic, and something that would be massive in scope to do, so don't hold your breath for it! :D