Re: F17 - KDE panel background - how to change

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On 06/24/2012 09:07 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> Unfortunately at the moment I don't know either.

After spending a fair deal of time on this "interesting" matter.....I found it
obscure/difficult/maddening/impossible.

The desktop theme definitions are kept in /usr/share/kde4/apps/desktoptheme/  .  To
modify things you need to use an svg editor such as inkscape.  The question then
becomes which fileS to modify to get the desired result.

I say fileS since it seems that one has to know which files to modify...and how.  It
seems, to make matters worse, that there is an interaction between files located in
"default" and whatever theme you are using.   If some attribute isn't defined in the
files of your theme then they are gotten from files in the default.  Also, it seems,
one has to know in which order files are read/evaluated.

To sum things up.....  It ain't easy....  :-(

I also did some googling on the matter and my "ain't easy" conclusion is upheld by
many others.  (People in another thread may want to google this topic....they may
learn something about opinions of KDE developers... :-) :-)  And cries for the
good-old-days of KDE 3.4)  Hope I don't regret saying all that.....

With all that in mind....  The patch of least resistance seems to be either

A.  Find a theme, even though it has a translucent taskbar, which is more readable.
B.  Find a theme that give you an opaque taskbar...  LIke Gaia_Recycled....which I
don't like.  But who cares about my opinion.  :-)

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