Hi,

I am back on KDE. After the update (to ubuntu 11.10) and my "confrontation" with unity I went back to KDE, I used to use 3.5 and have some trouble getting used to 4. (4.7.1 it is now)

The most important little anoyance now is the "taskbar", I can put all kind of little programs in there, the keyboard-layout-switcher etc. etc.
But . . . how do I change the color of the background and of the tasks that are there? It is hardly readable now.

With 3.5 one could load a graphic but I cannot find it for 4.

Thanks for any help.

Kind regards,
Jan

a picture or your taskbar would be helpful

note: in kde4 what you call taskbar is called the panel

what do you mean by "hardly readable now."? that the color of the bar and text are too similar? that the bar is transparent and the wall paper is bleeding though?

the easiest way to change the color is to change the plasma theme, you can change individual parts of the theme (in your case the panel background) in systemsettings -> workspace appearance -> desktop theme -> details -> panel background

Thank you,

I oversaw the way that the theme is selected (just a simple doubleclick),
this was great help.

I choose the glow and transparent way so I can read the notifications.

Nice Forum!

Kind regards,
Jan


using Linux since suse 6.