Dear all,
I just installed SUSE 11.3 on my PC and used KDE desktop. But the default color and style of the task manager bar looks not so good to me. It’s a back and gray bar. How to change its color and style? Should I install something else or just do some settings? I look through the system setting but can not find a way. Could you kindly please tell me how to do that? Thank you.
Chunsen
Go to start menu–>system settings–>style and try to change it here.
http://dl.maximumpc.com/galleries/linuxdistros/opensuse_config1_sm.png
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_-5GrmpmXtLM/S9Ai53Hm1fI/AAAAAAAAAdI/DjzdvV5kAmY/fonts.jpg
Is it ok now?
there is no way to change its color or level of transparency…
both were user controlled in KDE3, but it is still impossible to
change in KDE4…
which is ok, i guess, since at least now KDE4.5.5 is mostly useful and
doesn’t crash nearly as much as did all through 4.3/4
maybe in a few more years they will have achieved all the
functionality lost when they abandoned 3.5
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DenverD
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“It is far easier to read, understand and follow the instructions than
to undo the problems caused by not.” DD 23 Jan 11
NO，it does not work.
What’s the problem now?
On 03/03/2011 08:36 PM, flyspring wrote:
>
> stamostolias;2297778 Wrote:
>> Is it ok now?
> NO，it does not work.
let me repeat:
There is no way to change its color or level of transparency.
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DenverD
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“It is far easier to read, understand and follow the instructions than
to undo the problems caused by not.” DD 23 Jan 11
Sorry my fault. Yes @DenverD is right you can not change the color of transparency. You can change the color in start menu line with that technique who I have already said.
Here and my desktop
You can use different plasma themes. The place where you can change these themes is as follows:
KDE 4.4.4 (default in 11.3): Personal Settings (> General) > Appearance > Style > Workspace
KDE 4.5 & 4.6: Personal Settings > Workspace Appearance > Desktop Theme
Also have a look at the Desktop Theme Details.
KDE 4.4.4: Personal Settings > Advanced > Desktop Theme Details
KDE 4.5 & 4.6: Personal Settings > Workspace Appearance > Desktop Theme > Details
Themes can be installed from repositories, i.e. they can be installed through YaST. Those will be available to the whole system.
Or you can download themes from KDELook.org via “Get New Themes”. Themes installed this way are only available to your user account in /home.
Thanks denverd and stamostolias, although I can’t change the color and style.
Hi Lord_Emsworth,
Thanks for your reply. I will try this way next week. I will report what I see.
Why next week? 
Switching to a different plasma theme is a matter of a few clicks.
I’m now out of office room and will be back there next week. The PC is in my office room …
You can use different plasma themes. The place where you can change these themes is as follows:
KDE 4.4.4 (default in 11.3): Personal Settings (> General) > Appearance > Style > Workspace
KDE 4.5 & 4.6: Personal Settings > Workspace Appearance > Desktop Theme
Also have a look at the Desktop Theme Details.
KDE 4.4.4: Personal Settings > Advanced > Desktop Theme Details
KDE 4.5 & 4.6: Personal Settings > Workspace Appearance > Desktop Theme > Details
Themes can be installed from repositories, i.e. they can be installed through YaST. Those will be available to the whole system.
Or you can download themes from KDELook.org via “Get New Themes”. Themes installed this way are only available to your user account in /home.
The same way I said you.
That is of course a very good reason.
Hi,
If you want to change just the color of the taskbar and don’t want to change the entire plasma theme, I think you can do it. Correct me if I am wrong the taskbar in kde is the panel right. If you have just installed the kde in 11.3 it is the kde 4.4 version. The way to do it, is:
1.Open the Configure Desktop
2.Click advance
3.Click Desktop Theme Details
4.Click Panel Background
5.Choose the theme to your liking.
Edit:
Last writing omitted. Sorry I am using xfce, so can’t remember much on top of my head the kde stuffs.
But I think the kde extra repositories has more plasma themes you can add.
On 03/03/2011 10:36 PM, conram wrote:
> If you want to change just the color of the taskbar and don’t want to
> change the entire plasma theme, I think you can do it. Correct me if I
> am wrong
i think you are remembering how it used to be done in KDE3…
> the taskbar in kde is the panel right. If you have just
> installed the kde in 11.3 it is the kde 4.4 version. The way to do it,
> is:
> 1.Open the Configure Desktop
how do you open “Configure Desktop”, from a right click on the
desktop? if i do a right click here i get no “Configure Desktop”,
instead i get “Desktop Settings” with clicks available to “Wallpaper”,
“Activity” and “Mouse Actions” only.
> 2.Click advance
there is no “Advanced” to click on from “Desktop Settings”…
so, i open Personal Settings - Configure Desktop and again find no
“Advanced” to click on
> Sorry I am using xfce, so can’t remember
and i repeat one more time: There is no way to change the panel’s
color or level of transparency, in KDE4…yet.
yes, you can change themes, but you cannot change the panel’s color or
level of transparency in any theme…
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DenverD
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD
[NNTP posted w/openSUSE 11.3, KDE4.5.5, Thunderbird3.0.11, nVidia
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“It is far easier to read, understand and follow the instructions than
to undo the problems caused by not.” DD 23 Jan 11
Hmmmnnnnn, if you are using kde 4.5 and above it is really different.
Now I am force to load kde and this is version 4.4.4 opensuse default from the dvd and what I wrote is right. The configure desktop is open via the left mouse click on the kickoff application launcher and just follow the rest that I wrote in my first post.
The plasma theme choices in this machine has only two to offer, the “air” and “aya”.
I tested just changing the panel theme from air to aya and it works, there is no need of changing the entire plasma theme.
Now I am on 11.4 and just installed kde, it’s version 4.6.0
As soon as the installation is done, I login to kde and click the kicoff menu and saw the configure desktop. I clicked it and see if there is a way to just change the panel theme and was able to find it. This is how it goes.
1.Click the kickoff application launcher
2.Click Configure desktop
3.Under Workspace Appearance and Behavior
Click Workspace Appearance
4.Click Desktop Theme
Under Desktop Theme,Click Details
5.Use the user customized theme.
Lastly to those with nvidia graphic cards
I am using a 32bit pc with zotac-nvidia gt220
KDE 4.6 works using the beta proprietary beta driver version 270.29.
The separate screen also works with kde after installation, but it was already configured
from my previous install of xfce.
On 03/04/2011 02:06 PM, conram wrote:
> I tested just changing the panel theme from air to aya and it works,
> there is no need of changing the entire plasma theme.
you say you changed the panel theme…but, i said you can not change
the panels color (which is what the questioners who began this
thread asked for) nor can you change the panel’s transparency…
so, go back and change the panel color from black/gray to hot
pink…and, change the transparency from none to say 85% so you can
see though the panel to the underlying wallpaper…
and take a screen shot of your see though hot pink panel, and post it
to pastebin.com
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DenverD
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD
[NNTP posted w/openSUSE 11.3, KDE4.5.5, Thunderbird3.0.11, nVidia
173.14.28 3D, Athlon 64 3000+]
“It is far easier to read, understand and follow the instructions than
to undo the problems caused by not.” DD 23 Jan 11