This release is mostly a preparation before a much needed cleanup. After that is done I will include more cool stuff 😎

Bug fixes

• Fix transparent outline ugliness by drawing it inside background area
• Restore now removes all customization https://github.com/luisbocanegra/plasma-panel-colorizer/issues/36
• Fix panel background color set not saving https://github.com/luisbocanegra/plasma-panel-colorizer/issues/42
• Fix broken system colors when switching color schemes https://github.com/luisbocanegra/plasma-panel-colorizer/issues/41
• Fix blacklisted color
• Fix default appearance restore
• Ignore global enable from presets
• Fix restoring hidden panel after global disable
• Fix blacklisted color
• Remove outline if background is disabled
• Disable/hide controls based on category/global disabled status
• Disable blacklist on global disable
• Fix per widget margins layout & visibility

Improvements

• Improve preset auto-loading - Allow loading a preset when a window is touching the panel https://github.com/luisbocanegra/plasma-panel-colorizer/issues/44
• Split margin from background and move to separate Layout tab
• Don't apply any customization by default https://github.com/luisbocanegra/plasma-panel-colorizer/issues/36

Other

• Switch to RGBA for background opacity

Bug fixes

• 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 all broken presets have been provided here

• Fixed missing color options for panel background

Other

• Added click support to increase/decrease value in floating text fields

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New features

• Configurable icons/text shadow
• Added option to fix custom badges unreadable text
• Allow picking any System (Kirigami.Theme) color

Bug fixes

• Fixed contrast correction for some color modes
• Fixed original panel opacity requiring custom background to work
• Don't remove widget rules when they are not in the panel being configured

Other

• Only show a single instance of each widget when configuring
• Now available in AUR plasma6-applets-panel-colorizer

Support the development

If you like the project you can:

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New features

• Margins control to unify heights & extra margins for widgets
• Contrast correction for all color modes
• New widget background line mode
• Include tray widgets in force icon color
• Preset management
• Support for app tray icon colorization
• Preset auto-loading on floating panel / Maximized window
• System color option for custom color modes
• Spacing control
• Widget background margin

Bug fixes

• Allow blacklisting the System Tray widget
• Fix unreadable BadgeOverlay
• Fix colors not updating for window buttons widget
• Fix color animation not working sometimes
• Don't rotate colors in static mode

Other

• Only reload window buttons widget when fg colors change
• Use list of current widgets for blacklist/force/margins
• Show last preset loaded

New features

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

Bug fixes

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

Other

Split configuration sections into tabs Use color picker for color fields Add mouse wheel area to floating text fields

⚠️ Plasma 5 version has been dropped, mainly due to limitations porting foreground colorization

Full Changelog: https://github.com/luisbocanegra/plasma-panel-colorizer/compare/v0.2.0...v0.3.0

Changes

• Added option to show the widget only when panel is in panel editing mode.
• System tray position was removed since it wasn't working.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/luisbocanegra/plasma-panel-colorizer/compare/v0.1.0...v0.2.0

First usable release all features should work but expect some bugs here and there.

Plasma 6 only but may be ported to plasma 5 if there's interest (PRs welcome)