Looking for transparent (non-blurry) Taskbar / Qt6 Plasma-Style

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Can anyone recommend one, please?

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What do you mean? The Breeze Plasma style is transparent. You just need to disable the blur effect.

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Hi dirn. Basically i am looking for a way to (only) make my Taskbar transparent. I hoped to do so with a Plasma-Style? I tried several, but they all seem to come with a blur effect.

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Do you mean, making the taskbar transparent only, while the application launcher and the applet pop-ups still have blur?

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correctly, that is it.

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Currently, I’m not aware of any way to do that. That also doesn’t seem like something someone would be interested to include as a tweak.

Your only best option is to create a custom Plasma Style by slightly modifying the Breeze Plasma Style but that requires technical knowledge…

Update: There is actually a (somewhat!) similar behaviour already present. If you set the Opacity to “Adaptive”, the panel goes opaque (not translucent!) once an application goes fullscreen.

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@Z3m228 ,
If I’m not mistaken, you can use panel colorizer to achieve that.

Otherwise you might need to customize the plasma style as mentioned by @LinuxGuy-cyber

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Thank you both for the input.

Well, i think i will just stay with a transparent blurry Plasma-Style then, so not to complicate things further. It is quite close to what i am looking for.

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As it only requires changing the Plasma Style under System Settings > Colors & Themes, I would do this by creating a new Plasma Style that will only have a different name, and a different, transparent panel background as follows:

  1. Create a directory for the new Plasma Style such as ~/.local/share/plasma/desktoptheme/BreezeMod, either in Dolphin or by entering in a terminal window: mkdir -p ~/.local/share/plasma/desktoptheme/BreezeMod
  2. Create a plaintext file named metadata.json there with the following contents:
    {
    “KPackageStructure”: “Plasma/Theme”,
    “KPlugin”: {
    “Category”: “Plasma Theme”,
    “ServiceTypes”: [
    “Plasma/Theme”
    ],
    “EnabledByDefault”: true,
    “Name”: “BreezeMod”,
    “Description”: “BreezeMod”,
    “Id”: “BreezeMod”,
    “Version”: “1.0”,
    “License”: “GPL-3.0+”
    },
    “X-Plasma-API”: “5.0”
    }
  3. Create a sub-directory at ~/.local/share/plasma/desktoptheme/BreezeMod/translucent/widgets, and copy there an image file named panel-background.svg(below), which will be used as the new panel background.
  4. Finally, go to System Settings > Colors & Themes > Plasma Style, and select that new one named BreezeMod, while keeping all the rest intact.

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If you mean something like:

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The panel colorizer can do it. Or, if you’re on 6-ish, the transparency toggle has been ported.

https://store.kde.org/p/2150916

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Dunno about 6-ish, but editing the background svg ( completely transparent) won’t work on 5-ish. No matter, it’ll always have some color.

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@dzon, I tried @Sadi’s suggestion. It works on 6-ish. But for OP’s peace of mind, it’s probably better to use Panel Colorizer if OP still wants to go ahead with this.

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This looks amazing as well.

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So many choices, so much flexibility in KDE Plasma.:slightly_smiling_face:
I preferred using just a small SVG file to tweak the panel background because it seems very lean to achieve panel transparency alone.

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I tried @dzon’s suggestion (link) and yes it works well - so thanks a lot.

@dirn: Where to find Panel Colorizer?

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I haven’t used it myself. You can check this thread, or maybe @dzon can help with it.

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Yeah, I wan’t sure ‘bout 6-ish. But it’s the lightest” solution.

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I don’t use it myself so I THINK it’s this https://github.com/luisbocanegra/plasma-panel-colorizer But the guys and gals that do use it might have a better link.

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