{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/lxde/lxqt/issues/552","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/lxde/lxqt/issues/552/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/lxde/lxqt/issues/552/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/lxde/lxqt/issues/552/events","html_url":"https://github.com/lxde/lxqt/issues/552","id":63456718,"number":552,"title":"LXQt panel/plugin spacer: color of lines and dots vs. panel background color","user":{"login":"pmattern","id":9860801,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/9860801?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/pmattern","html_url":"https://github.com/pmattern","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pmattern/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pmattern/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pmattern/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pmattern/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pmattern/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pmattern/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pmattern/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pmattern/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pmattern/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/lxde/lxqt/labels/lxqt-panel","name":"lxqt-panel","color":"5319e7"},{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/lxde/lxqt/labels/polish","name":"polish","color":"ff1d21"},{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/lxde/lxqt/labels/qss/themes","name":"qss/themes","color":"d4c5f9"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":4,"created_at":"2015-03-21T21:34:02Z","updated_at":"2015-04-06T14:05:10Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Using theme Dark or Kde-plasma dots and lines set by \"Space type\" can't be seen as their color isn't suitable. Also, there's no way to keep them visible when custom panel background colors are applied.\r\nSo I think the plugin would benefit from having those colors configurable somehow.\r\n\r\nNot sure about the best way to do so, though.\r\nMaybe just derive spacer's color from some other panel element that can be considered to be visible always or just have it configurable independent of any other element?\r\n\r\nOn a side note I wonder whether it wouldn't improve the user experience if either dotted or lined was the default setting instead of invisible - at least as long as there's no means to figure out the position of invisible plugins easily (which corresponds a little bit to #536)."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/lxde/lxqt/issues/comments/90075820","html_url":"https://github.com/lxde/lxqt/issues/552#issuecomment-90075820","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/lxde/lxqt/issues/552","id":90075820,"user":{"login":"pmattern","id":9860801,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/9860801?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/pmattern","html_url":"https://github.com/pmattern","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pmattern/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pmattern/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pmattern/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pmattern/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pmattern/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pmattern/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pmattern/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pmattern/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pmattern/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-04-06T14:05:10Z","updated_at":"2015-04-06T14:05:10Z","body":"A minor problem affecting custom panel background colors seems to persist:\r\nIf a theme featuring a rather bright panel background color is in use, e. g. Light, spacer gets invisible if black is set as custom panel background color. Surprisingly spacer is grey and visible very well if theme Dark is in use, no matter whether custom panel background color is black or not set at all both of which results in a rather dark panel background as well.\r\nOn a side note the opacity slider sometimes is automatically set to 0. Don't know whether this is intentional but it may cause artifacts regarding the issue discussed here.\r\n\r\nWhile testing this commit I was still sometimes wondering whether it wouldn't look better if the color got derived from some other panel element such as the font. And unlike I first deemed reasonable spacer's color still isn't adjustable manually.\r\nNevertheless I do think the approach you're taking in lxde/lxqt-common#20 is a pretty good one. If the problem stated above is solved it could very well be applied imo.\r\n\r\nTests performed with latest Git versions of all LXQt components, lxqt-common as branch \"spacers\", compiled against Qt 5.4.1 on Arch Linux x86_64."}}