[Bug 269934] Re: application icons are faded and hard to distinguish
** Changed in: gnome-panel Importance: Unknown = Low -- application icons are faded and hard to distinguish https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/269934 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 269934] Re: application icons are faded and hard to distinguish
Hi Martin, thanks a lot for your patch! This feature was driving me nuts. I looked for a long time on the Internet until I found your solution. I installed it and the fading was gone :-) Vielen Dank! Recently I upgrade to Ubuntu 10.4 though and your patch stopped working :-( Will you make a new patch for the new Ubuntu release? That would be awesome. Or alternatively could you tell me what I need to do to undo this feature. Thanks! Patrick -- application icons are faded and hard to distinguish https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/269934 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 269934] Re: application icons are faded and hard to distinguish
I've posted a patch on the GNOME bugtracker, and I also created a PPA that contains the patched package: https://launchpad.net/~martin.von.wittich/+archive/libwnck-nodimming Add the software source ppa:martin.von.wittich/libwnck-nodimming to your computer and run sudo apt-key adv --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys C26F50B5 ; then start update-manager, check for updates and install them. After you relogin, the icons should no longer be greyed out. This will of course be reverted as soon as Ubuntu releases another update for libwnck, but I'll try to keep at it and patch the updates too. -- application icons are faded and hard to distinguish https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/269934 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 269934] Re: application icons are faded and hard to distinguish
I agree with the bug reported, I've been thinking many times about filing such a bug report myself. While it's also useful to have less emphasize on minimized icons I think the current visualization of minimized icons are just too hard to distinguish because they are too much faded to gray. I believe the proper scientific way to sort this out is to have a professional UX designer look at it and evaluate different ways of improving the usability of these icons. -- application icons are faded and hard to distinguish https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/269934 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-panel in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 269934] Re: application icons are faded and hard to distinguish
I think it's important also to note that if us writing on this bug thinks this is an issue, it will surely be a much bigger issue for a user that isn't so used to computers and perhaps a bit less sharp on the eye-sight. -- application icons are faded and hard to distinguish https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/269934 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-panel in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 269934] Re: application icons are faded and hard to distinguish
well... if it helps any: when you have a lot of applications running, the icons start to get reduced to the point of being really difficult to recognise. This would be worth a bug or, perhaps, a wishlist: make the bottom panel vertically expandable as an option. This is, in fact, very much the only thing I liked on Windows. As for the graying out, yes, it is a feature. It just could have been less light gray, I guess. After a lot of applications, and a lot of minimising, I indeed cannot see the bloody thing. -- application icons are faded and hard to distinguish https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/269934 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-panel in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 269934] Re: application icons are faded and hard to distinguish
did you try setting the windowlist settings for tasklist to group if space is limited ? that should provide the behavior you see on windows ... -- application icons are faded and hard to distinguish https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/269934 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-panel in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
