On 2025-06-06 12:50:41 Darrell Anderson via tde-users wrote:
On 6/5/25 4:50 PM, David C Rankin via tde-users wrote:
I agree with you, that the menu background is likely just the normal desktop appearance background color. The guesses I had were from looking though the config files at where the various menu elements were set. There is very little that distinguishes the kicker taskbar/panel settings from kmenu itself.
I think a foundational challenge is themes and styles have not evolved in TDE like in other desktop environments. As much as I dislike full dark themes, the dark theme movement required developers to reconsider how all of this functions.
Design wise the menu and panel are connected, knee bone to the thigh bone. One approach is the menu background should be the same as the panel background, whether the user changes only the panel color or chooses a background image.
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Something I noticed while poking around in the Control Center Appearance & Themes => Colors is that there are some widget types in Widget Color that do not appear in the example window at the top of the pane. Also, there are no widget types for Active/Inactive Tab Background/Text; they are apparently using the values for other widgets, and so active tabs in Konqueror and Konsole are hardly distinguishable from the inactive ones.
It seems to me that the Colors module of the Control Center would benefit from some enhancements to make it easier to create non-traditional schemes such as the dark sorts.
Leslie