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. -- John Horne, Plymouth University, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 587287 Fax: +44 (0)1752 587001 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
