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Bug 166597 - transparency makes menus unusable. nee a way to turn it off
transparency makes menus unusable. nee a way to turn it off
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 160944
Product: gnome-applets
Classification: Other
Component: menu applet
2.9.x
Other All
: Normal minor
: ---
Assigned To: Chris Phelps
gnome-applets Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-02-07 19:55 UTC by Tomasz Torcz
Modified: 2005-02-08 19:41 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.9/2.10

Attachments
comparision between old and new way (107.02 KB, image/png)
2005-02-07 19:58 UTC, Tomasz Torcz 		Details

Description Tomasz Torcz 2005-02-07 19:55:46 UTC 
Transparency added during 2.9.x cycle is pretty nice, but makes certain applets
and menus unusable.
My typical setup was: gnome menu at left (black letters on grey background),
some appletts at right, and whole panel transparent (so I don't have ugly grey
bar across screen). Also - dark background image.
With transparency menus are unreadable (black letters on dark colors). Weather
applet is unreadable, too.
One solution is to change color of panel, but that would ruin aesthetics.

Other information:
There should be way to turn off transparency. I know that we are post UI strings
freeze - maybe some gconf setting could be made?
Comment 1 Tomasz Torcz 2005-02-07 19:58:20 UTC 
Created attachment 37120 [details]
comparision between old and new way

On this screenshot you can see two panels - top one is from older gnome (it
looks good), and bottom one is from GNOME 2.10.beta1 (letters are unreadable).
Comment 2 Luis Villa 2005-02-07 20:05:09 UTC 
I'd suggest the solution is either to disable transparency for the menu applet
altogether (I can't see any case where a sane user would want to turn this on)
or steal nautilus's code that attempts to make text legible against the background.
Comment 3 Vincent Noel 2005-02-08 19:41:30 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 160944 ***