I don't understand why the colored status shape still needs to have a gradient as though light is shining on it. My vision of mono icons is that they should be "flat" and simple. Anyway, we're way too late for Quantal to tweak these icons so that suggestion should probably be considered for R instead.
This is clearly a bug fix for Radiance users and I think this should definitely improve the "fuzziness" introduced late in the Quantal cycle to the messaging menu icons. I talked to the Ubuntu Manual guys and they haven't yet finalized their screenshots (but they will be very soon). +1 from the Docs Team to fix this. Please, please land as soon as possible (i.e. tomorrow would be great, next week would be bad). I believe the absolute final deadline for ubuntu-docs uploads pre-release is next Tuesday, and I have other things I was planning to do this weekend. :-) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-mono in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1056488 Title: [UIFe] Messaging menu title icons are indistinct Status in “ubuntu-mono” package in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in “ubuntu-mono” source package in Quantal: In Progress Bug description: ubuntu-mono 0.0.45, Ubuntu Q 1. gthumb /usr/share/icons/Humanity/status/*/user-* /usr/share/icons /ubuntu-mono-*/status/*/indicator-messages-* What you see: A. Humanity's standalone IM status icons are a bit hard to see against a white background -- such as Empathy's status menu -- because the tops of the icons are white with no outline. B. The corresponding emblems are similarly hard to see against the light grey, black, or blue envelopes in Ubuntu Mono's messaging menu icons. <http://cloudfront.omgubuntu.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/08 /new-icons.jpg> The Offline and mixed-status icons are particularly bad. C. The "Invisible" icons and emblems have a pure black or white interior, which just looks weird. <http://cloudfront.omgubuntu.co.uk /wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Screen-Shot-2012-09-19-at-10.34.18.png> D. The "Available" and "Away" icons look bigger than the others. What you should see: A. All the icons, while beautiful, are robust enough to be thoroughly distinct against a white, light grey, or dark grey background. B. The icons remain simple enough that in emblem form they are thoroughly distinct against a bright blue, light grey, or dark grey background. If necessary, the envelope could have an emblem-shaped chunk bitten out of its bottom right corner, to make the emblem distinct. C. The "Invisible" icons and emblems have a transparent interior. D. All the chat status icons look the same size. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-mono/+bug/1056488/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
