As I re-read my bug report I decided that I needed to have an easier way for developers to quickly see what I'm referencing. I made some animated gif's which makes this far easier to quickly tell the difference. There are two animated gif's. One is with the "backgrounds on open applications only" as well as "colored edges." That way you can see how different options look similar or different.
In both scenarios I was using Skype as an example. One slide shows Skype with no unread messages, the next shows Skype with an unread message (aka, needing attention). You can clearly see how crazy similar each gif is with both no unread messages vs unread messages available (aka application needs attention). This is extremely difficult for users to quickly decipher, did I get a message? Do I need to check that application? It was far, far easier in 13.10 and below to quickly tell the difference. Examples: http://oi62.tinypic.com/nxjgh3.jpg http://oi59.tinypic.com/21mi1w0.jpg Of course, this would be less of an issue if all applications that are built on any sort of messaging platform (whether it be email, instant messaging applications, webapps such as gmail, twitter, etc) would properly utilize the numbering system for alerts. What I'm referencing is when you get a new message on, say, Empathy, and a "1" shows up overtop of the Empathy icon on the Unity bar. Unfortunately this seems to be broken in 14.04, as I reported here (take note of the Pidgin icon with the "2" on the icon within the included screenshot of this report): https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1304186 But as it stands now, that integration isn't working and the highlighting differences are too similar to tell if an application has a highlight without having the Unity icons absolutely huge. Again, thank you very much for your time and dedication. I just wanted to make sure that my report was as accurate and easy to understand as possible. :) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1304073 Title: 14.04 Unity pips (white dots in bar) are now too small. Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: On all 14.04 installs I've tinkered with so far they've all exhibited this behavior. The pips (white dots) next to the icons in the Unity bar are too small. I never noticed this before, so I went back to a 13.10 install to compare. The pips on 14.04 are so small that they, quite frankly, feel useless. They need to be of adequate size in an effort to be easily seen by the user, regardless of the actual icon size. Take note of the size of the white pips on the Unity launcher in the following screenshots. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/mc4k4yyjm5nbbzk/4t6SgqVN8H Here's an alternative 'direct download' link to the images just in case: http://skynetcore.org/shared/pips.tar.gz In an effort to present an accurate comparison I included the following screenshots (note that 48 px on both 13.10 and 14.04 seem identical, it's just the smaller sizes that down-scale too far) 13.10 - 32 px 14.04 - 32 px 13.10 - 48 px 14.04 - 48 px I also included a 5th screenshot of 26 px in 14.04 in case it helps further show what I'm referencing. While scaling the size of the pips makes sense to a certain degree, the current behavior scales them far too small. I feel as though they should have (at minimal) a 13.10 oriented type of scaling so they are more easily viewable, and therefore, more useful. If they could be adjusted in size, that would be a monumental bonus as well, but I have a feeling that might be a stretch for the given time frame. :) Thank you for your time! ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: unity 7.2.0+14.04.20140403-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-23.45-generic 3.13.8 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-23-generic x86_64 .tmp.unity.support.test.0: ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins' CompositorRunning: compiz CompositorUnredirectDriverBlacklist: '(nouveau|Intel).*Mesa 8.0' CompositorUnredirectFSW: true CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Mon Apr 7 17:41:39 2014 DistUpgraded: Fresh install DistroCodename: trusty DistroVariant: ubuntu GraphicsCard: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0116] (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:0009] InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-01 (6 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Daily amd64 (20140330) MachineType: TOSHIBA PORTEGE Z835 ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-23-generic root=UUID=5d7f7158-1b5b-4946-9916-b8a0c2f59525 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 SourcePackage: unity UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 02/08/2012 dmi.bios.vendor: TOSHIBA dmi.bios.version: Version 1.60 dmi.board.asset.tag: 0000000000 dmi.board.name: Portable PC dmi.board.vendor: TOSHIBA dmi.board.version: Version A0 dmi.chassis.asset.tag: 0000000000 dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: TOSHIBA dmi.chassis.version: Version 1.0 dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnTOSHIBA:bvrVersion1.60:bd02/08/2012:svnTOSHIBA:pnPORTEGEZ835:pvrPT224U-013021:rvnTOSHIBA:rnPortablePC:rvrVersionA0:cvnTOSHIBA:ct10:cvrVersion1.0: dmi.product.name: PORTEGE Z835 dmi.product.version: PT224U-013021 dmi.sys.vendor: TOSHIBA version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.11+14.04.20140328-0ubuntu1 version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.52-1 version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 10.1.0-4ubuntu1 version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 10.1.0-4ubuntu1 version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.15.0-1ubuntu7 version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.8.2-1ubuntu2 version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.3.0-1ubuntu3 version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.910-0ubuntu1 version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.10-1ubuntu2 xserver.bootTime: Mon Apr 7 17:24:40 2014 xserver.configfile: default xserver.errors: xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log xserver.outputs: xserver.version: 2:1.15.0-1ubuntu7 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1304073/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
