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Bug 756807 - Windows' titles are unreadable in Gnome Classic's bottom panel/window list
Windows' titles are unreadable in Gnome Classic's bottom panel/window list
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: extensions
3.20.x
Other Linux
: Normal major
: ---
Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
: 757373 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2015-10-19 12:04 UTC by Danilo Cominotti Marques
Modified: 2017-11-24 18:07 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Attachments
Missing window's title (116.01 KB, image/png)
2015-10-19 12:04 UTC, Danilo Cominotti Marques
  Details
window-list button colors (2.68 KB, patch)
2015-10-26 14:36 UTC, Jakub Steiner
none Details | Review
patch applied (200.23 KB, image/png)
2015-10-31 19:44 UTC, Lubomir Rintel
  Details
patched css for GNOME Classic (2.37 KB, patch)
2015-11-15 20:46 UTC, rudolf
none Details | Review
patched css for GNOME "normal" (1.33 KB, patch)
2015-11-15 20:51 UTC, rudolf
none Details | Review
screenshow after patch (20.70 KB, image/png)
2015-11-15 21:17 UTC, rudolf
  Details
patched css for GNOME Classic (2.25 KB, patch)
2015-11-16 12:18 UTC, rudolf
none Details | Review
window-list theme fixes (3.66 KB, patch)
2015-11-16 17:31 UTC, rudolf
none Details | Review
window-list theme fixes -- fixed color (3.66 KB, patch)
2015-11-16 18:19 UTC, rudolf
none Details | Review
window-list theme fixes (3.61 KB, patch)
2015-11-16 22:13 UTC, rudolf
none Details | Review
Screenshot of the window list with gnome-shell 3.18.3 (7.26 KB, image/png)
2015-11-26 20:33 UTC, Sébastien Wilmet
  Details
classic theme patch (1.97 KB, patch)
2016-03-20 20:02 UTC, rudolf
needs-work Details | Review
0001-Fix-colors-of-window-list-classic-theme.patch (2.42 KB, patch)
2016-05-10 15:20 UTC, rudolf
none Details | Review
panel style changes (2.69 KB, patch)
2016-05-10 16:45 UTC, Jakub Steiner
committed Details | Review
Fix minimized window style (520 bytes, patch)
2016-07-15 21:19 UTC, rudolf
none Details | Review

Description Danilo Cominotti Marques 2015-10-19 12:04:38 UTC
Created attachment 313657 [details]
Missing window's title

It seems that some styling issues are preventing windows' titles from being noticed on the bottom panel/window list. When a mouse hover is performed on a window element, the changed styling still exhibits the problem. I am using GNOME 3.18.1-2 from Arch Linux.
Comment 1 Jakub Steiner 2015-10-26 14:36:06 UTC
Created attachment 314137 [details] [review]
window-list button colors

- not sure I win the override game
Comment 2 Florian Müllner 2015-10-30 18:56:19 UTC
(In reply to Jakub Steiner from comment #1)
> window-list button colors

This patch has landed - is there anything left to do, or can the bug be closed?
Comment 3 Florian Müllner 2015-10-30 18:57:07 UTC
*** Bug 757373 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Lubomir Rintel 2015-10-31 19:44:32 UTC
Created attachment 314559 [details]
patch applied

It surely looks better.

However, the buttons are still rather dark which looks somewhat inconsistent with the other colors in the theme. It feels a bit disruptive to me and I'm not sure if that is intentional.

Sorry if I'm just bikeshedding
Comment 5 rudolf 2015-11-15 20:46:40 UTC
Created attachment 315638 [details] [review]
patched css for GNOME Classic
Comment 6 rudolf 2015-11-15 20:51:31 UTC
Created attachment 315639 [details] [review]
patched css for GNOME "normal"

What do you think about these 2 patches?

For me its hard to distinguish between normal, focused and minimised windows in current themes.
I did some tweaks to both css files so there are some changes in "normal" gnome shell and also in gnome classic

I tried to fix some problems including this bug. Please review.
Comment 7 rudolf 2015-11-15 21:17:18 UTC
Created attachment 315640 [details]
screenshow after patch

windows list will look like this after css tweaks
Comment 8 rudolf 2015-11-16 12:18:30 UTC
Created attachment 315660 [details] [review]
patched css for GNOME Classic

minor cleanup
Comment 9 rudolf 2015-11-16 17:31:55 UTC
Created attachment 315697 [details] [review]
window-list theme fixes

GNOME 3.18.2 still has some issues, this patch should fix them

black theme:
- make focused window button slightly more dominant

classic theme:
- included -st-natural-width and max-width from black theme
- removed non working gradients
- fixed too bright text color on focused window button
- adjusted colors and added hover effect

what do you think?
Comment 10 Lubomir Rintel 2015-11-16 17:44:44 UTC
It looks a lot better to me with the patch applied
Comment 11 rudolf 2015-11-16 18:19:28 UTC
Created attachment 315700 [details] [review]
window-list theme fixes -- fixed color

adjusted text color to match classic theme
Comment 12 rudolf 2015-11-16 22:13:52 UTC
Created attachment 315711 [details] [review]
window-list theme fixes

Changed and removed some things that were driving me crazy.. Sorry for spamming, this will be my final comment :)

changes made to GNOME 3.18.2:

black theme:
- focused window button is now slightly more dominant

classic theme:
- included -st-natural-width and max-width from black theme
- use same .window-button padding as black theme, since both themes have height: 2.25em;
- removed gradients that doesn't seem to work
- fixed too bright text color on focused window button
- adjusted colors and added hover effect
Comment 13 Sébastien Wilmet 2015-11-26 20:33:32 UTC
Created attachment 316342 [details]
Screenshot of the window list with gnome-shell 3.18.3

I've updated my Fedora 23 system, it's now better, but there is still a problem. The text in white is hard to read.
Comment 14 Danilo Cominotti Marques 2015-11-26 20:38:29 UTC
I believe the [white] text from the focused window button is indeed still very hard to read.
Comment 16 Sébastien Wilmet 2016-03-12 17:52:01 UTC
We can also see the bug in GNOME Continuous:
http://build.gnome.org/continuous/buildmaster/builds/2016/03/12/34/smoketest-classic/work-gnome-continuous-x86_64-runtime/screenshot-final.png

So it's still not fixed for 3.20. And the bug is still present in 3.18.

It's a quite major problem for the GNOME Classic session.
Comment 17 rudolf 2016-03-20 20:02:32 UTC
Created attachment 324382 [details] [review]
classic theme patch

Bottom bar looks much better to me after applying some css tweaks.
Can you commit this patch?
Comment 18 Sébastien Wilmet 2016-05-09 09:51:45 UTC
ping

A patch has been sent. Can a maintainer look at it?
Comment 19 Jakub Steiner 2016-05-10 13:30:59 UTC
Review of attachment 324382 [details] [review]:

Unfortunately this CSS file is generated from the SCSS. Can you patch the source file?
Comment 20 rudolf 2016-05-10 15:20:39 UTC
Created attachment 327596 [details] [review]
0001-Fix-colors-of-window-list-classic-theme.patch

Is it okay now?
Comment 21 Jakub Steiner 2016-05-10 16:45:34 UTC
Created attachment 327598 [details] [review]
panel style changes

- based on a patch by rudolf@palaticky.com
- having three css locations with hardcoded colors,
  what could possibly go wrong in the future. :(
Comment 22 Jakub Steiner 2016-05-10 16:49:19 UTC
Comment on attachment 327598 [details] [review]
panel style changes

Attachment 327598 [details] pushed as 59aa0f6 - panel style changes
Comment 23 rudolf 2016-05-10 20:50:01 UTC
There's small typo on line 15 that wasn't in original patch, not sure if it makes any visible difference

-st-natural-width: 18.7em;

-st-natural-width: 18.75em;
Comment 24 rudolf 2016-07-15 21:19:23 UTC
Created attachment 331613 [details] [review]
Fix minimized window style

Jakub, I installed SLED 12 SP2 with gnome 3.20 a while ago and noticed that minimized window buttons have wrong style. Then I checked commit 59aa0f66f34be85131aab574a1a8d69b02ea236c and there is error in that patch..

this:
.bottom-panel .window-button.minimized > StWidget {
 box-shadow: inset 1px 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.5);
}

should be this:
.bottom-panel .window-button.minimized:active > StWidget {
 box-shadow: inset 1px 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.5);
}

Could you please apply patch based on my attachment to 3.20 and 3.21 branch?
It also fixes previous -st-natural-width typo.
Comment 25 Florian Müllner 2017-11-24 18:07:45 UTC
Pretty sure this was fixed in bug 775282.