Sorry if this is a repost. I have tried searching for this subject and haven't found a thread yet.

I am trying to locate where I can modify the KDE4 panel auto hide hover glow. The default seems to be blue for all themes. As your mouse moves closer to the hidden panel a glow color starts to appear, and grows brighter the closer your mouse gets to activating it.

I have been able to find the section that modified the active window glow colors, but not panel auto hide glow colors. A bit annoying when my whole theme is black and red, then out of nowhere there is this light blue glow..

The glow is provided by KWin, so it may be located there in terms of settings. However, I would expect the glow colours to be taken from the currently active colour scheme, so this is potentially a bug.

The glow is in the plasma theme - widgets/glowbar.svgz

Nice. Thank you very much. So I guess it isnt a parameter after all but an image part of a theme. I appreciate the response.

No problem.

Most themes leave it as a blue glow - perhaps the authors don't know about it

Hm, I don't get it - I changed my desktop themes around (from vanilla) and all of a sudden this blue glow appeared.

I've got five glowbar files on my system:

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/home/toad/.kde4/share/apps/desktoptheme/.customized1/widgets/glowbar.svgz
/home/toad/.kde4/share/apps/desktoptheme/DarkAir/widgets/glowbar.svgz
/usr/share/apps/desktoptheme/default/widgets/glowbar.svgz
/usr/share/apps/desktoptheme/oxygen/widgets/glowbar.svgz
/usr/share/apps/desktoptheme/slim-glow/widgets/glowbar.svgz

I moved them to *.bak but no use, even after a logout. I do not seem to be able to find a way of getting rid of this glow.

What am I missing?

Many thanks in advance...

toad wrote:
What am I missing?

You may (and this is a guess) need to clean out the plasma-cache (located in /var/tmp/kdecache-*user* usually).

Cheers, but the glow is still there after a reboot, so I reckon it wasn't the cache.

Has anyone been able to find a way to be rid of the blue glow on the panel?
(Not to be confused with the window border glow)
Please don't suggest using another theme...

I've removed all traces of glowbar.svgz images from themes in /usr.../desktopthemes, cleared all caches from /usr/tmp and ~/.kde, run sudo updatedb, switched themes back and forth, checked and re-checked color schemes, restarted x with no result.

Seriously the glow setting IS somewhere... it doesn't just appear on all of our desktops magically...

Instead of removing the files, try editing the one from the theme you use and setting it to be mostly transparent. Don't know whether it works, but generally if you change it, it should replace the blue glow-bar with whatever you put in there (for example, slim-glow doesn't have it blue, but gray)

ivan wrote:Instead of removing the files, try editing the one from the theme you use and setting it to be mostly transparent. Don't know whether it works, but generally if you change it, it should replace the blue glow-bar with whatever you put in there (for example, slim-glow doesn't have it blue, but gray)

Thanks for your reply Ivan.

In light of the problem here I began with chmod a+rw glowbar.svgz.
And if I open glowbar.svgz via kate, it would be reasonably expected I could replace all instances of opacity=1 to opacity=0.

Wrong. I am denied access to change the contents of the file.

an svgz is a compressed file, if you can just open it in kate, it will likely be decompressed on the fly but recompression won't possibly not work and thus editing is prohibited. shrug

-> edit svg(z) files in inkscape or so, not in kate - that's masochism anyway

The image that requires editing is in fact tasks.svgz, and not glowbar.svgz.

@pagoda how so? tasks.svgz contains elements (and glows) for the tasks applet - aka running applications buttons.

glowbar.svgz contains the glow for the hidden panels. At least, that's what I changed so that slim-glow doesn't have a blue glow.


http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Plasma ... e_Elements
[snip]
/glowbar.svgz : a frame without a prefix, it represents a glow, it's used for instance in Plasma Desktop for the panel autohide unhide hint.
[snip]

ivan wrote:@pagoda how so? tasks.svgz contains elements (and glows) for the tasks applet - aka running applications buttons.

glowbar.svgz contains the glow for the hidden panels. At least, that's what I changed so that slim-glow doesn't have a blue glow.

@ivan,

I must appologise.
In my "frenzied state" in seeking a solution for my issue, I completely failed to read the thread title!

My concern was with the glow effects of tasks.svgz glowing open-tasks on the panel blue.

Sincerely