Oxygen panel changes colour from black to blue

Oxygen panel changes colour from black to blue

Fri Mar 06, 2009 5:49 am

Hi there,

as I'm having problems with the desktop effects right now, I've disabled them altogether.

I'm using the default Oxygen theme and when I disabled the desktop effects my Plasma panels turned from transparent to black, which looked really nice. However when I tried different themes and chose Oxygen again the panels were not black anymore but blue. Why is that?

Is the panel supposed to be black or blue in Oxygen? I prefer the black panels as it matches the desktop widgets' colour. How can I turn my panels black again?

TIA,
Blackhole

Hi there,

as I'm having problems with the desktop effects right now, I've disabled them altogether.

I'm using the default Oxygen theme and when I disabled the desktop effects my Plasma panels turned from transparent to black, which looked really nice. However when I tried different themes and chose Oxygen again the panels were not black anymore but blue. Why is that?

Is the panel supposed to be black or blue in Oxygen? I prefer the black panels as it matches the desktop widgets' colour. How can I turn my panels black again?

TIA,
Blackhole

[TheBlackCat]

RE: Oxygen panel changes colour from black to blue

Fri Mar 06, 2009 5:55 am

With desktop effects off the panel is blue, with them on it is black. If you want it black you will need to either have desktop effects on or find a theme with a black panel. You can create a custom theme with different parts of plasma using different themes, you can find that in the "Desktop Theme Details" part of System Settings.

With desktop effects off the panel is blue, with them on it is black. If you want it black you will need to either have desktop effects on or find a theme with a black panel. You can create a custom theme with different parts of plasma using different themes, you can find that in the "Desktop Theme Details" part of System Settings.

RE: Oxygen panel changes colour from black to blue

Fri Mar 06, 2009 6:17 am

No, that's not how it's behaving on my machine. With desktop effects on it's transparent, with desktop effect off it's opaque black and after some reboots and/or theme changing it's blue when selecting Oxygen again.

Check the screenshot:


So there definitely is a black panel WITHOUT desktop effects on my machine, but maybe that's just a bug. However I want the black panels back.

Does anybody know why the panel is blue anyway? Am I the only person that thinks that this looks ugly? I mean all the desktop plasma widgets have black borders only the panels are blue. That doesn't look nice. It's not consistent but just out of place. Why did the designers do that?

No, that's not how it's behaving on my machine. With desktop effects on it's transparent, with desktop effect off it's opaque black and after some reboots and/or theme changing it's blue when selecting Oxygen again.

Check the screenshot:
[url=http://omploader.org/vMWMwZg][img]http://omploader.org/tMWMwZg[/img][/url]

So there definitely is a black panel WITHOUT desktop effects on my machine, but maybe that's just a bug. However I want the black panels back.

Does anybody know why the panel is blue anyway? Am I the only person that thinks that this looks ugly? I mean all the desktop plasma widgets have black borders only the panels are blue. That doesn't look nice. It's not consistent but just out of place. Why did the designers do that? :(

Last edited by blackhole on Fri Mar 06, 2009 6:47 am, edited 1 time in total.

RE: Oxygen panel changes colour from black to blue

Fri Mar 06, 2009 9:56 am

Does anybody know why the panel is blue anyway? Am I the only person that thinks that this looks ugly? I mean all the desktop plasma widgets have black borders only the panels are blue. That doesn't look nice. It's not consistent but just out of place. Why did the designers do that?

I have the same problem, but I don't care what the panel looks without effects, because I use them. Anyway, I think that it's a bug, and by the way. The black panel looks better.

[quote]
Does anybody know why the panel is blue anyway? Am I the only person that thinks that this looks ugly? I mean all the desktop plasma widgets have black borders only the panels are blue. That doesn't look nice. It's not consistent but just out of place. Why did the designers do that?[/quote]
I have the same problem, but I don't care what the panel looks without effects, because I use them. Anyway, I think that it's a bug, and by the way. The black panel looks better.

RE: Oxygen panel changes colour from black to blue

Fri Mar 06, 2009 11:37 am

Hm, yeah, I'd use the effects too, if I hadn't those problems.

Can anybody tell me whether there is a theme config file where I manually can set the panel colour for the oxygen theme?

Hm, yeah, I'd use the effects too, if I hadn't those problems.

Can anybody tell me whether there is a theme config file where I manually can set the panel colour for the oxygen theme?

[bcooksley]

RE: Oxygen panel changes colour from black to blue

Fri Mar 06, 2009 11:42 am

The panel is an SVG file, which is controlled by the currently active theme in Plasma. Apart from creating your own theme, there is no way to change the Panel colour at this time.

The panel is an SVG file, which is controlled by the currently active theme in Plasma. Apart from creating your own theme, there is no way to change the Panel colour at this time.

RE: Oxygen panel changes colour from black to blue

Fri Mar 06, 2009 3:41 pm

The panel is an SVG file, which is controlled by the currently active theme in Plasma. Apart from creating your own theme, there is no way to change the Panel colour at this time.

:'( And how would I create a new theme / modified Oxygen theme? Where's the SVG file located?

[quote="bcooksley"]
The panel is an SVG file, which is controlled by the currently active theme in Plasma. Apart from creating your own theme, there is no way to change the Panel colour at this time.
[/quote]
:'( And how would I create a new theme / modified Oxygen theme? Where's the SVG file located?

RE: Oxygen panel changes colour from black to blue

Fri Mar 06, 2009 4:39 pm

you can manage plasma themes in system settings /advanced /Desktop Themes Details.

you can manage plasma themes in system settings /advanced /Desktop Themes Details.

RE: Oxygen panel changes colour from black to blue

Fri Mar 06, 2009 4:58 pm

Try this: copy /usr/share/apps/desktoptheme/default to .kde4/share/apps/desktoptheme in your /home folder (replace .kde4 with .kde if your distro is using .kde as the default $KDEHOME). Rename the folder from default to oxygen-black or something like this, then open it (oxygen-black in this example) and delete the opaque folder, then open metadata.desktop with kwrite, change Name=Oxygen to Name=Oxygen-black , save the file. Now select Oxygen-black from Appearance Settings. See if this works.

Try this: copy /usr/share/apps/desktoptheme/default to .kde4/share/apps/desktoptheme in your /home folder (replace .kde4 with .kde if your distro is using .kde as the default $KDEHOME). Rename the folder from default to oxygen-black or something like this, then open it (oxygen-black in this example) and delete the opaque folder, then open metadata.desktop with kwrite, change Name=Oxygen to Name=Oxygen-black , save the file. Now select Oxygen-black from Appearance Settings. See if this works.

RE: Oxygen panel changes colour from black to blue

Fri Mar 06, 2009 10:29 pm

Try this: copy /usr/share/apps/desktoptheme/default to .kde4/share/apps/desktoptheme in your /home folder (replace .kde4 with .kde if your distro is using .kde as the default $KDEHOME). Rename the folder from default to oxygen-black or something like this, then open it (oxygen-black in this example) and delete the opaque folder, then open metadata.desktop with kwrite, change Name=Oxygen to Name=Oxygen-black , save the file. Now select Oxygen-black from Appearance Settings. See if this works.

Shukran. I'll try that, but why would the panel be black just because I deleted the opaque folder?

[quote="medo3891"]
Try this: copy /usr/share/apps/desktoptheme/default to .kde4/share/apps/desktoptheme in your /home folder (replace .kde4 with .kde if your distro is using .kde as the default $KDEHOME). Rename the folder from default to oxygen-black or something like this, then open it (oxygen-black in this example) and delete the opaque folder, then open metadata.desktop with kwrite, change Name=Oxygen to Name=Oxygen-black , save the file. Now select Oxygen-black from Appearance Settings. See if this works.
[/quote]
Shukran. I'll try that, but why would the panel be black just because I deleted the opaque folder?