[Bug 1304073] Re: 14.04 Unity pips (white dots in bar) are now too small.
As part of the big bug review for 16.04 LTS I have tested this on 15.10 and the bug is still there. I think this is a feature request rather than a bug. ** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Opinion ** Changed in: unity Status: Confirmed => Opinion -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1304073 Title: 14.04 Unity pips (white dots in bar) are now too small. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1304073/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1304073] Re: 14.04 Unity pips (white dots in bar) are now too small.
For the edge illumination issue, see: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1309739 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1304073 Title: 14.04 Unity pips (white dots in bar) are now too small. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1304073/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1304073] Re: 14.04 Unity pips (white dots in bar) are now too small.
** Also affects: unity Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: unity Importance: Undecided = Medium ** Changed in: unity Status: New = Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1304073 Title: 14.04 Unity pips (white dots in bar) are now too small. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1304073/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1304073] Re: 14.04 Unity pips (white dots in bar) are now too small.
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 Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1304073 Title: 14.04 Unity pips (white dots in bar) are now too small. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1304073/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1304073] Re: 14.04 Unity pips (white dots in bar) are now too small.
I believe it's also worth noting that the way the icons get highlighted when they need attention has changed as well. In 13.10 and prior, all four sides of the icon highlighted. In 14.04, it's just two of the four sides (left + top sides). In some cases it seems that only the top edge of the icon when highlighted shows any difference, and even then it looks nearly identical when I click on the icon, thereby removing the highlight. Meanwhile, the left side of the icon that also gets highlighted seems to not change. I understand that these items were changed as part of the conversion process to SVG, allowing them to scale up and look great on HiDPI screens. While I support this very much, it really does feel like a usability regression as it is now more difficult to tell when an application needs attention. If *everything* supported the Message Tray, this would be less of an issue as a user could just look there and see what took place. To be quite frank, the Message Tray certainly isn't supported by all applications, so you might see my angle on this now. Take into consideration that somebody may get up from their computer for a moment and come back several moments later. If the icons do not clearly depict that they received a message, or somebody highlighted them on IRC, etc., they wouldn't otherwise know. Given the fact that the current highlight is less obvious and the pips are smaller (making it more difficult to tell if a pip is blue or white to signify the difference), suddenly it becomes a burden to the user. Thinking it was the fact that I had selected colored edges for the icon backgrounds feature, I set everything back to default, just as it comes out of the box in 14.04, so then the icons had a solid color background without any colored edges. Sadly, this was no change (if anything, it was slightly worse since I didn't even have two of the four highlighted edges). In that case, I had to rely entirely on the color of the now smaller pips, which is cumbersome and quite a hassle. I still believe that having the ability to scale the pips independently would be a wildly effective method so the user may choose based on their preference, but with how close we are to release, at the very least I would favor seeing a more 13.10-ish size of pips on my 14.04 installs. Based on my conversations with users, it sounds like a lot of people don't notice this change. That said, I certainly notice when my messages go missed until I happen to message them again when they are in front of their system, thanks to the notification in the upper right corner on their display. :) Again, thank you for your time and efforts. Have a great day! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1304073 Title: 14.04 Unity pips (white dots in bar) are now too small. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1304073/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1304073] Re: 14.04 Unity pips (white dots in bar) are now too small.
** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided = Low -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1304073 Title: 14.04 Unity pips (white dots in bar) are now too small. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1304073/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1304073] Re: 14.04 Unity pips (white dots in bar) are now too small.
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu) Status: New = Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1304073 Title: 14.04 Unity pips (white dots in bar) are now too small. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1304073/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
