Made this small but fully configurable plasmoid whose sole purpose is to inject/manage the background of other widgets in the same panel, the goal was to replicate the famous WM status bar look without actually making other widgets or modifying the panel itself.
I think the result looks interesting for something that I figured out was possible just a couple days ago.
This is the first release so it may have some unexpected bugs 
You can see it in action here
Hi, thanks for your post and the info.
@Konqi
KDE Dev, can the color of the taskbar be changed with KDE 6 ?
This is just a plasmoid I made for myself that does this (not something you will find in plasma 6 as a official feature, just to be clear). The only reason is plasma 6 only is because it’s what I use now but it should work there too if ported to 5.
I am not a KDE developer btw.
Oh, sorry I got confused, for changing just the panel background (I think is what you mean by taskbar?) you just replace/modify the panel-background.svg inside the desktop theme (I think there are different variants of fit for opaque and translucent and maybe some other), no other plugins like this one are needed for that.
This looks great, thanks!!
Thanks. And is getting better! Next version will have foreground color customization so bright background colors will now be possible like this:
Unfortunately, it doesn’t recolor icons that aren’t “symbolic” or are rendered in weird ways but I tried to catch the most common cases 
Among some other features that are listed in the readme.
v0.3.0 has been released with tons of changes
Unfortunately Plasma 5 version has been dropped, mainly due to limitations porting foreground colorization
Foreground (text & icons) customization
Apply fg color to Window Buttons widget
option to use a fixed custom panel side padding
Custom panel background color
Control real panel background opacity
Option to fully remove panel background
Add outline and shadow control
Force Kirigami.Icon color to specific plasmoids using isMask
Listen for widgets added/removed from the panel
Don’t change fg color in tray expanded representation
Reduce CPU usage only changing fg color for PlasmoidItem children
Fix notification applet appearing artifact
Don’t change opacity when disabled
Continue after error caused by panel being edited
Split configuration sections into tabs
Use color picker for color fields
Add mouse wheel area to floating text fields
If you like the project you can support the development 
Added button to restore default block/margin/force recolor rules to fix rules not being deleted even after removing the matched widgets.
Only required if you updated or have presets from version 0.4.0 or older
Instructions to fix previous presets are provided here
Fixed missing color options for panel background
If you like the project you can:
This release is mostly a preparation before a much needed cleanup. After that is done I will include more cool stuff 
Thx for that, I don’t use Discover so it’s always great having that there.
Congratulations, your widget is a must have to customize the taskbar and so on !
I voted for your widget on the aur.
I did some tests, plasma 6.0.4 wayland, see below :-)
Oh I forgot to push the update to the AUR 
updated it just now. Thank you both for the reminder!
After some months not wanting to touch the monstrosity that v0.5.x became, I decided to rewrite most of the widget, took me a month and some things still need to be worked on, but it’s in a (hopefully) more stable state now.
Preset configuration format and location has changed see Updated to v1.0.0, where are my presets?
If you like the project please consider donating/sponsoring this and my other open source work
Rate/review in the KDE Store
Hi,
Don’t forget to post each new version on the forum to promote your work
1.2.0 installed !
Broken with Plasma 6.3.4 update.
Please try this patch [Bug]: Widget Background Clolor Is Broken after Plasma 6.3.4 Upadte · Issue #212 · luisbocanegra/plasma-panel-colorizer · GitHub
Fix is out. Just updated Garuda and all’s good.
