Re: F17 - KDE panel background - how to change

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Sun, 24 Jun 2012 11:50:32 +0800
Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> kirjoitti:

> 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.  :-)
> 

I have taken desktop decoration off, using Oxygen and no transparency.
Got grey panel, with black fonts. Reasonable enough, not the best, but..
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