[plasmashell] [Bug 355563] Taskbar is cluttered and colorfull

[Nils via KDE Bugzilla]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=355563

--- Comment #14 from Nils <nils.acrimont at gmail.com> ---
@Uri Herrera

About the colors, I would say simply that I do not understand these. Colors
have meaning, they are bound to a brand, a product or a level of information
(danger, warning, info, success, ...). Here, why restart is blue and logout
purple? Why shutdown is red? I cannot explain these colors, so, it appears to
me that they are nor necessary, nor wanted. It is more a disruption in the
graphical user interface than anything else. 
Furthermore, it was more consistent with the others things in the dashboard
where the things in color were the applications and the things without colors
the actions possibles (filter applications and shut the system). 

About the panel, when you look at this picture:
http://postimg.org/image/ig54nnf8j/ it appears really clearly for me which one
is selected and which are not. I do not think you lose any valuable information
at all. You could even change the size of the selected element (through the
color area):
http://postimg.org/image/n446fhe8z/
Do you think it is unclear which one is selected and which ones are not? 

Same thing for errors:
http://postimg.org/image/43iznienx/adfa30df/

Anyway, I do think it would be much nicer without borders, at least for
icons-only panel. 

About the icons, well, I still prefer the old ones (more regular in geometry)
but after reducing the panel height (which have been enlarge following the
update), it became better.
So no more strange system tray with over large icons. 
However, like the icons for the launched applications are reduced in order to
display these useless border, I found myself with really little icons for
applications which are now difficult to see and seems to be displayed from a
lower quality resource than the system tray icons.

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