Menu drop-down items on the right of the taskbar hard to read

[Kandelai]

Hi, love the theme. I do have one issue though. It seems any drop-down menus on the right of the taskbar are really hard to see/read when there is any window underneath of it. I think the opacity needs to be turned down. Oddly, the drop-downs on the left side, the global menu items, are better and I can read those, so I think there is a difference. Here is a screenshot of the Status and Notification Drop-Down Menu with my browser open;

[vinceliuice]

No problem, I'll make a black font version or update the menu color

[vinceliuice]

By the way, I think turn the blur effect on will looks better!

[Kandelai]

Thanks, yes I just noticed the the darker text in the drop-down menus of global menu is easier to read, so I think that will work.

Are you talking about the blur effect in system settings or the one in Kvantum? I disable the system settings blur because there is a bug in KDE where corner artifacts appear. Turning off blur fixes this. I will play around with kvantum's blur settings though, thanks.

[archisman-panigrahi]

How did they implement this with white fonts in macOS? By increasing the blur?

[Kandelai]

It appears they use the darker text in most of the menus.

And with their new notifications drop-down, sort of a double background opacity thing...

[vinceliuice]

I get this, I also want to set the font color separately， But kde plasma does not support this

[archisman-panigrahi]

The KDE developers seem to be very happy to implement new features and make KDE even more customizable, so we can open a issue somewhere. I am unsure which component of KDE has to be addressed, and which is the best place to request for this feature.

[vinceliuice]

No problem!

[Kandelai]

I get this, I also want to set the font color separately， But kde plasma does not support this

I thought that might be the issue, as I have not seen this done before, white taskbar text and dark dropdown menu text. I am assuming it happens in Global menu because it is probably configure that way inside the app itself. I hope you can figure it out someway. I had to switch out the plasma to another because the text and notifications became unreadable.

[vinceliuice]

I wish kde plasma will support this then I can do more things on themeing!

[ricopt5]

@vinceliuice I think you should have the widgets background the same as Big Sur notifications background.

This way we would not have the problem of low contrast and low readability due to the background being very light. I think this is the only reason stopping me from using this theme which otherwise is very good!

[vinceliuice]

@ricopt5 Thanks for your suggestion, I'll adjust this!

[LaDecimotercera]

@vinceliuice Hi! I just wonder how to enable black fonts in drop-down items of top bar, since I noticed that black fonts have been updated but I still got white fonts which is hard to see with light background. Love this theme btw.

[vinceliuice]

The Whitesur-alt version is black font version, why not use this version? @LaDecimotercera

[LaDecimotercera]

@vinceliuice That works, thanks!

[y-usuzumi]

I think it's not a matter of font color. It's some more deep-seated design flaw: