Hello, I have simple question. How i can change background image for main panel in KDE 4? In kde3 i changed it from panel properties.

I meant the panel where you have main menu, tray and clock and some more things.. I dno how to name this panel, but I hope you got now what I meant

Go to systemsettings->advanced->desktop theme details->panel background->file. Note that the KDE 3 png strips may not work, I haven't tried.

TheBlackCat wrote:Note that the KDE 3 png strips may not work, I haven't tried.

They don't. They need to be svgs, and with some specific named-svg-elements in it. Just "converting" a png to svg won't be enough.

Thanks alot. if i find some from internet or draw my self, in what directori I should put these images then?

Wherever you can find them again easily. It doesn't really matter, you can select the file you want from wherever.

Is there a way to have just transluscent/transparent? That used to be a choice....

Not through the settings themselves. You can by making a translucent/transparent SVG for your panel and using that. Then you can customize what parts of the panel are translucent, and by what values.

I made a svg grahic by exporting a png to inkscape and saving as normal svg.

When I try to apply it to my panel from within system settings on KDE 4.5 bet1 (Kubuntu maveric alpha), nada.

Simply being an SVG is not sufficient enough for Plasma to display it. Plasma uses SVG "hints" which allow multiple elements to be contained in a single file.

Okay I had a look here:
http://www.svgopen.org/2008/papers/104-SVG_in_KDE/

but that didn't help much.

So, how does one export a .png into a plasma "correct" .svg?

Olwe wrote:Is there a way to have just transluscent/transparent? That used to be a choice....

I have just downloaded Mezzaville as my wallpaper and that installed itself behind the panel without my doing anything that I am aware of; so the panel can be translucent in KDE4.3.5. Just don't ask me how!

Panels will be automatically translucent / transparent if compositing is available. The level of translucency is theme dependent.

I want what I think @Olwe and others want: "Is there a way to have just transluscent/transparent?" @bcooksley, we're not asking how to turn translucency on, nor are we asking for some-random-theme, we're asking how to get rid of distracting graphics in the panel background. In my case, it's the rounded rectangles (squircles?) in the Kubuntu 10.04 default theme (Air, I believe).

It would be really nice if there was a way to do this from System Settings. Failing that, is there a simple recipe for editing the complexity out of a copy of the background file (I think the squircles come from /usr/share/kde4/apps/desktoptheme/default/widgets/panel-background.svgz). http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Plasma/Theme doesn't help.

I also tried asking on kde-look.org's knowledgebase.
Thanks for any pointers.

I want what I think @Olwe and others want: "Is there a way to have just transluscent/transparent?" @bcooksley, we're not asking how to turn translucency on, nor are we asking for some-random-theme, we're asking how to get rid of distracting graphics in the panel background. In my case, it's the rounded rectangles (squircles?) in the Kubuntu 10.04 default theme (Air, I believe).

I concur

You'll have to change SVG. Those are part of the graphic.