[SOLVED] BUG. Default panel is transparent at bottom

[alguien]

The default Kubuntu panel is break. See images...
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The bottom line is transparent and if I click on the transparent part the buttons do not respond.

I have tried to remove the panel or move it from position without results.

- Kubuntu 18.04 updated.

Suggestions?

[Bings]

Try creating a new panel and see if this happens again.

[alguien]

Try creating a new panel and see if this happens again.

I have already tried eliminating, adding, moving, creating, empty by omission, everything basic.

[GreyGeek]

Is that with the widgets locked?

[alguien]

Is that with the widgets locked?

It is the same locked or unlocked

[oshunluvr]

Try changing your desktop theme.

[alguien]

Try changing your desktop theme.

No basic system preference solve this. Changing themes, colors, rebooting, changing again... always have the same results.

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Can someone help me publish an issue/bug in the correct way? I do not know how.

[oshunluvr]

Have you tried another user account? Create an addition user and see if the issue is stil there. if so, we'll know it's your personal settings not the system.

I've never seen this reported before, which might explain the lack of replies.

[jlittle]

... Changing themes... always have the same results.

It's definitely the theme. The trouble is in almost all of them the panel is transparent, and there's not many. I haven't found one I like that is not, but IIRC I did find one.

Can someone help me publish an issue/bug in the correct way? I do not know how.

I don't think it's a bug, unless <rant mode=bitter>mindless fad following by GUI developers </rant> is a bug. What we'd like is a good theme editor so we could turn off obnoxious features like this. However, in plasma 5 in theory it's all in QML (Qt modelling language, sort of a cross between CSS and javascript), so someone somewhere knows how to fix it.

I work around it by using autohide and a wallpaper that is a good background for the panel.

Regards, John Little

[alguien]

Have you tried another user account? Create an addition user and see if the issue is stil there. if so, we'll know it's your personal settings not the system.

Perfect! It is definitely my personal settings..
The reason is that I have moved from Ubuntu 18.04, and most of my applications configurations have simply been copied and pasted.

Could you list in which folders and files are the configuration files that can affect the environment?

[oshunluvr]

Perfect! It is definitely my personal settings...
...Could you list in which folders and files are the configuration files that can affect the environment?

Uh, no not really. The typical response is to delete the .kde folder in your home but there may be other things effecting it.

I suggest making a backup of all the hidden folders in your home, then log out of the GUI and log into the text console (CTRL-ALT-F1), then delete your .kde folder. When you then log back into the GUI (CTRL-ALT-F7) you should get a default layout. It also could be your .local/share/plasma folder that needs deleting.

Seems weird to me that some other settings were held over from a previous install unless it too was using the KDE/Plasma DE.

You might want to hang on a bit and see if anyone else makes a better suggestion.

[alguien]

Finally, I found that among the KDM options there were 2 "Plasma" desktops ... so I opened the other, and it was updated and with the bar fixed.
From there, I reopened the environment of the beginning and the problem of the bar was solved.

Now I mysteriously have 2 Plasma environments to choose from before loggin. But all works.

Thank to all!