At least it’s a work around.
for the panel.
Using inkscape I can probably change the color of the panel, but that will be a different story.
I can change the panel transparency also by using the xfce4-panel and disabling the kde panel in kde, but that’s just me.
You can change these things. Some of it is just not so easy.
You can use the Desktop Theme details to cook up you “own” theme by mixing elements from existing plasma themes. For instance, you can use a plasma theme that is generally opaque as the basis and then select the panel background from a theme which is transparent and the color scheme from a theme which sports plenty of pink. (Or however exactly this works in Desktop theme details)
You could also edit the theme itself, i.e. edit the .svg graphics, the color scheme and so on.
But you are somewhat right insofar that it is not easy; easy as in “click ‘Change panel color’ and pick a color with the color picker”.
On 03/04/2011 05:36 PM, Lord Emsworth wrote:
> But you are somewhat right insofar that it is not easy; easy as in
> “click ‘Change panel color’ and pick a color with the color picker”.
as it was in KDE3.
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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
This is the new color of my kde panel with transparency 
http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/4978/screenshot0305201110111.th.png](ImageShack - Best place for all of your image hosting and image sharing needs)
On 03/06/2011 04:36 AM, conram wrote:
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> This is the new color of my kde panel with transparency 
> ‘[image:
> http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/4978/screenshot0305201110111.th.png]’
> (http://img263.imageshack.us/i/screenshot0305201110111.png/)
ok, you didn’t change the color (it is still grey) and you didn’t
change the transparency of the KDE panel, instead you changed to the
xfce panel…
as mentioned several times: one can not change either the color or the
transparency of the KDE4 panel…that was easily accomplished in
KDE3, but in KDE4 there are no user controls allowing such
customization, yet.
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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
You are right.
It’s just a work around while waiting for the kde transparency feature to mature.
This is my setup on my two monitors in kde, one is using the kde panel and the other is using the xfce panel. if my desk will only permit me to accomodate the third monitor, I could have tried using gnome panel or icewm in it to see if it well work.
Hello all,
Was looking for a way to change the task panel at the bottom of the screen myself in KDE on 11.4 and this is what I came up with. It may not be the perfect solution, but it did fit better with my own theme then the provided gray color.
http://i433.photobucket.com/albums/qq52/stupiddies/linux/desktop.jpg
Now, mind you I have Oxygen selected for the rest of my stuff, and I have changed my colors for the window backgrounds, highlights, buttons and stuff. When I switched to Aya, it automatically picked pup one of the colors I had switched and it looks much better.
I hope this help somewhat. I didn’t dig in far enough to see if the I could change the transparency at all as I was just looking to change the color (went with green). I will say though that my color choice make the info icon (clipboard, volume, battery, etc.) stand out better so they are easier to see.
Just my two cents, which at current American valuation is worth about .000002 cents!
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