*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 962120 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/962120
** Description changed:
unity 4.10.2-0ubuntu2, Ubuntu Ocelot
unity 5.4.0-0ubuntu2, Ubuntu 12.04 beta 1
The Unity launcher places each application icon on a colored tile. The
color is chosen by averaging the colors used in the icon itself. This
was an interesting idea, but it doesn't work. If an icon uses mostly one
color, and doesn't have cartoon-like borders, the surrounding color
washes out the icon and makes it hard to recognize.
<https://launchpadlibrarian.net/78619733/Launcher%2520washout.png>
demonstrates the problem with:
* Ubuntu Software Center
* Language Support
* Mozilla Thunderbird
* Universal Access (moot once bug 801784 is fixed)
* Update Manager
* Synaptic
* Me Maker
* gbrainy.
<https://launchpadlibrarian.net/67598254/apport_icon.png> demonstrates
the problem with Apport.
<https://launchpadlibrarian.net/97878850/Ubuntu-12.04-China-profile.png>
demonstrates the problem with the Chinese portal Hao222.
- The problem is also demonstrated by Apport, Chromium, Galculator, and
- Skype.
+ The problem is also demonstrated by Apport, Chromium, Galculator,
+ Picsaw, and Skype.
An icon that looks beautiful in the Dash, the messaging or sound menus,
Docky, or AWN, and even in Windows or Mac OS X, can easily look terrible
in the Unity launcher. Therefore, the problem is with the launcher, not
with the icons.
Some of the ways in which this could be fixed:
* Remove the background color from the Launcher icons altogether.
* Make the background color much darker, or much lighter, than the average
icon color.
* Apply a shadow to the icons. (This would conflict with any shadow the icon
already has, such as in Firefox.)
* Allow individual applications to specify a custom color for their launcher
tile. (But it's unlikely that most would bother.)
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Launcher has tile backgrounds that wash out many icons
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