request_q4osteam - (high priority) / custom color for the classic Kicker menu background

seb3773 / q4osXpack

scripts for Q4OS (win10/osx theming, perfs, laptop config, apps, tools)

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request_q4osteam - (high priority) / custom color for the classic Kicker menu background #2

Closed seb3773 closed 6 months ago

seb3773 commented 9 months ago

It will be of great help if we could set a color for the TDEmenu background, independently of the general windows background color. Maybe something like LegacyKMenuBackgroundColor=(x,x,x) in kickerrc ? Or maybe just use the TintColor setting ?

q4osteam commented 9 months ago

We definitely need to modify TDE source code, however it should be possible. We are going to work on that, so we have created new bug report at Q4OS tracker https://sourceforge.net/p/q4os/tickets/219/ . We are going to track the issue here still.

seb3773 commented 9 months ago

Thank you :)

seb3773 commented 9 months ago

By the way, I don't know how is the code, but maybe it's possible to achieve the same thing that's done with the taskbar ? I mean color tint & transparency+blurred background ? It will be be very good looking ;)

q4osteam commented 9 months ago

We have compiled testing Trinity libraries with modified source code to enable Kmenu custom colors.

First you need to download testing packages https://sourceforge.net/projects/q4os/files/experimental_packages/kmenu_debs_14.1.1-0debian12.0.0+0.1-kmenutest.1.tgz/download
Extract the archive to a local directory.
You need to create local Apt repository, see https://askubuntu.com/questions/170348/how-to-create-a-local-apt-repository
Do system upgrade. A few Trinity packages will be upgraded to the "14.1.1-0debian12.0.0+0.1-kmenutest.1" versions.
Configure the desired Kmenu background color, for example green: $ /opt/trinity/bin/kwriteconfig --file kickerrc --group KMenu --key ClassicKMenuBackgroundColor 0,255,0
Reboot and see what happens.

seb3773 commented 9 months ago

It seems to be perfect :) Now I can do some coloured variants of the light & dark themes :) I'm even thinking about making the 'accent' color totally customizable (I mean taskbar color+menu color and windows decorations color), given the fact my windows decorations are very simple images, I think I can somehow generate them with imagemagick... Will take a look at that. Thank you very very much for this :) Just a question : is there a chance this new kmenu option will be in future updates ? Or do I have to find a way to include the updated packages in my scripts ?

q4osteam commented 9 months ago

Yes, we can include these modifications in the official release in the future, however it will take some more testing and making it stable.

seb3773 commented 9 months ago

Ok, I understand :) I have installed the packages on two computers with Q4OS, my old N3060 celeron laptop and my more recent i3 gen11 desktop. As Q4OS is now definitly my main OS, I can inform you if I find any bugs or stability problems with it, if it can be usefull for you. May be we can keep this issue open for that ?

q4osteam commented 9 months ago

Reporting would be definitely helpful. Yes, keep the thread open.

seb3773 commented 6 months ago

No problem so far :) Tested it a lot, it works well and no side effects. Hope this improvement will be integrated in official releases :) Thank you again for that.