[Bug 1173886] Re: Wrong background colour for nautilus icon in Unity launcher
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Status: New = Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1173886 Title: Wrong background colour for nautilus icon in Unity launcher To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/1173886/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 1173886] Re: Wrong background colour for nautilus icon in Unity launcher
You can for example open the update-manager.desktop file located either in /usr/share/applications/ or ~/.local/share/applications with gedit and delete the line starting with X-Unity-IconBackgroundColor. This gives you back the chameleonic colour for the specific launcher icon. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1173886 Title: Wrong background colour for nautilus icon in Unity launcher To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/1173886/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 1173886] Re: Wrong background colour for nautilus icon in Unity launcher
@hyperair; In Unity 8 we will probably be completely removing average-icon-colour algorithm and either: - forcing all applications to pick a specific colour. - Not having the concept of a Launcher tile background at all, and just displaying an icon that covers the whole tile. If we take this approach we would then use shaders on the icon for the launching 'pulse' effect, etc... Agreed that defining the tile background colour in the .desktop file is a hackey solution, but not sure what mechanism will be proposed for Unity 8. However there is a very high probability the average-icon- colour algorithm will be removed from the next version of Unity. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1173886 Title: Wrong background colour for nautilus icon in Unity launcher To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/1173886/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
Re: [Bug 1173886] Re: Wrong background colour for nautilus icon in Unity launcher
On 16/05/2013 16:47, John Lea wrote: @hyperair; In Unity 8 we will probably be completely removing average-icon-colour algorithm and either: - forcing all applications to pick a specific colour. So what happens to applications which don't? You can't expect all upstreams to bother about making Unity-specific changes, and it'll just look bad if their launcher icons look bad in Unity. - Not having the concept of a Launcher tile background at all, and just displaying an icon that covers the whole tile. If we take this approach we would then use shaders on the icon for the launching 'pulse' effect, etc... What about the filled-tile effect when applications are running? The small triangles aren't very visible with this effect enabled, and it still requires a tile background colour. [...] -- Kind regards, Loong Jin -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1173886 Title: Wrong background colour for nautilus icon in Unity launcher To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/1173886/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 1173886] Re: Wrong background colour for nautilus icon in Unity launcher
** Also affects: nautilus (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1173886 Title: Wrong background colour for nautilus icon in Unity launcher To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/1173886/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
Re: [Bug 1173886] Re: Wrong background colour for nautilus icon in Unity launcher
On 15/05/2013 18:30, John Lea wrote: @joschiposchi; choosing the app icon and tile colour is up to the app author. Of course with open source software you are free to modify both of these things if you like. However this is not something to be exposed to non-technical users. So basically you're saying that this is hardcoded in nautilus to be a reddish-brown shade, even while allowing the icon to be overridden by the icon theme? If this behaviour isn't broken, I don't know what broken is. Well, for now let's just redirect the bug to nautilus -- if Unity's just allowing applications to specify what colour their icons should be, then it's Unity's fault. -- Kind regards, Loong Jin -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1173886 Title: Wrong background colour for nautilus icon in Unity launcher To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/1173886/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
Re: [Bug 1173886] Re: Wrong background colour for nautilus icon in Unity launcher
On 15/05/2013 23:21, Chow Loong Jin wrote: [...] Well, for now let's just redirect the bug to nautilus -- if Unity's just allowing applications to specify what colour their icons should be, then it's Unity's fault. *not* Unity's fault, I mean. I just had a quick chat with seb128 on the issue, and it looks like it's supposed to be a temporary hack until the average-icon-colour algorithm gets fixed. References: - Bug #962120 (comment #4) - Bug #1081691 (comment #23) But really, encoding the background colour of the tile into the .desktop file has to be *the* hackiest solution ever. Desktop files are recommended to only specify the icon name so that it can be resolved according to the users' icon theme. Icon-theme-specific data really does not belong in the .desktop file. I get that it's not easy (and not possible?) to add custom metadata to .png's, so how about a solution involving an out-of-band file placed beside the icon like $icon_name.png.unity-hint that Unity can parse for hints? -- Kind regards, Loong Jin -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1173886 Title: Wrong background colour for nautilus icon in Unity launcher To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/1173886/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
