Greetings,

I have found an extremely nice Notes Widget appearance with the transparency.
Alas my contentment has been quickly faded when I found that the only letter color is solid black.
The text becomes completely invisible on a dark desktop background.

Is there any clever trick, possibility to have the text color of one's choice?

Thanks in advance.

(with the Plasma 5.7.2)

Plasma 5 is using qml scripts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QML .

Notes widget qml scripts are at: /usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.notes/
Text color is at: /usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.notes/contents/ui/main.qml

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        style: PlasmaStyle.TextAreaStyle {
            //this is deliberately _NOT_ the theme color as we are over a known bright background
            //an unknown colour over a known colour is a bad move as you end up with white on yellow
            textColor: plasmoid.configuration.color === "black" ? "#dfdfdf" : "#202020"
        }


The user can edit the "#202020" to set the wanted color - qml colors: http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qml-color.html

Example - changing:

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textColor: plasmoid.configuration.color === "black" ? "#dfdfdf" : "#202020"


to

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textColor: plasmoid.configuration.color === "black" ? "#dfdfdf" : "orange"


=>



Note !
Upgrades to the plasma will overwrite the /usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.notes/ edits.


My Notes

A bit better way is to copy the scripts to the users home and rename the notes widget.

Copying the /usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.notes/ to ~/.local/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.mynotes/

Editing the ~/.local/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.mynotes/metadata.desktop:

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[Desktop Entry]
Name=My Notes
Name[x-test]=xxMy Notesxx

Comment=Custom Desktop sticky notes
Comment[x-test]=xxCustom Desktop sticky notesxx

Icon=knotes
Type=Service

X-Plasma-API=declarativeappletscript
X-Plasma-MainScript=ui/main.qml
X-Plasma-DropMimeTypes=text/plain,text/richtext
X-KDE-ServiceTypes=Plasma/Applet
X-KDE-PluginInfo-Author=
X-KDE-PluginInfo-Email=
X-KDE-PluginInfo-Name=org.kde.plasma.mynotes
X-KDE-PluginInfo-Version=2.0
X-KDE-PluginInfo-Website=http://plasma.kde.org/
X-KDE-PluginInfo-Category=Utilities
X-KDE-PluginInfo-Depends=
X-KDE-PluginInfo-License=GPL
X-KDE-PluginInfo-EnabledByDefault=true
X-Plasma-Requires-FileDialog=Unused
X-Plasma-Requires-LaunchApp=Unused
X-Plasma-StandAloneApp=true


Editing the ~/.local/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.mynotes/contents/ui/main.qml
and setting the wanted text color:

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textColor: plasmoid.configuration.color === "black" ? "#dfdfdf" : "orange"


Restarting the plasmashell or log out - log in.

Adding the custom notes:

Wow. I thank you very much and really appreciate your exaustuve, very comprehensive explanation. I am very impressed.

I will give a try hoping all will go well as I have no programming knowledge.

PS
Seeing your deep pedagogical abilities and above all your knowledge I was wondering if you could help me to remove all drop shadow behind windows in Plasma, ie Breeze decoration including all menu boxes, panel, etc?
Ideally I would like to not having rounded corners...

Once more many thanks for the quality of your elucidation and guidance.

gthib wrote:Wow. I thank you very much and really appreciate your exaustuve, very comprehensive explanation. I am very impressed.

I will give a try hoping all will go well as I have no programming knowledge.

PS
Seeing your deep pedagogical abilities and above all your knowledge I was wondering if you could help me to remove all drop shadow behind windows in Plasma, ie Breeze decoration including all menu boxes, panel, etc?
Ideally I would like to not having rounded corners...

Once more many thanks for the quality of your elucidation and guidance.

Adding few short notes and links to the viewtopic.php?f=17&t=135024

He, I'd like instead change the background color, according to css rules, as I asked today https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=289&t=161219&p=418782#p418782: it's possible?

Please do not hijack threads that are 3 years old, you asked your question, just be patient.