On Sat, 2012-06-23 at 19:05 +0100, John Horne wrote:
Hello,
I have installed F17 onto my home PC today, and somewhere along the way
changed I seem to have changed the KDE panel background. It is now
somewhat transparent, which means that when the display background
changes (I have it set to a slideshow) sometimes I cannot read the text
on the panel icons.
I have had a look again but cannot see where the panel background is
set. Could someone point me to the right area please?
Hello,
Well it is possible to change the panel background setting:
http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=96664
I set the 'File' option for the panel background to
/usr/share/kde4/apps/desktoptheme/default/opaque/widgets/panel-background.svgz
and the panel background is now a solid light grey (after logging out
and in).
This now allows me to read how many unread mail messages I have without
maximising the panel task (I use 'evolution' as my mail client).
Unfortunately though some tasks on the panel such as a simple bash
konsole appear quite dark, others such as evolution are white on the
grey background (and so readable), libreoffice is also a light colour,
firefox is dark. Hovering the mouse over any of the tasks pops up a
thumbnail window which is pretty much black and impossible to read!
I also do not like at all the seemingly 'blurred' writing on the tasks
on the panel - e.g. 'bash' for a bash konsole. Blurring it puts a strain
on the eyes to resolve the writing - not good at all!
So, obviously things are not quite there yet. I have no objection to
some eye-candy, the blue highlight around selected tasks etc, but being
unable to read something is obviously of not much use.
John.
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