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Bug 658091 - Transparent background for available/unavailable IM status menu makes text difficult to read
Transparent background for available/unavailable IM status menu makes text di...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.6.x
Other All
: Normal minor
: ---
Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
: 662657 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-09-02 19:45 UTC by Luca Ferretti
Modified: 2012-10-30 23:08 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 3.7/3.8

Attachments
Screenshot of current status (110.54 KB, image/png)
2011-09-02 19:45 UTC, Luca Ferretti 		  Details
Hardest patch e--ver (967 bytes, patch)
2012-10-30 22:08 UTC, Stéphane Démurget 		committed Details | Review

Description Luca Ferretti 2011-09-02 19:45:27 UTC 
Created attachment 195522 [details]
Screenshot of current status

As showed on attached screenshot, the transparent background on available/unavailable combobox menu makes the menu items overlaps with username. This is not so good for readability (and probably a pain for visually impaired people).
Comment 1 Florian Müllner 2011-09-02 20:56:58 UTC 
Yeah, Matthias complained about that as well; I originally used a less transparent background, but changed it due to design review[0].

Guess we should re-visit that request? (FWIW, the background is a simple style property, so easy to change)

[0] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=652837#c28
Comment 2 Florian Müllner 2011-10-25 09:50:16 UTC 
*** Bug 662657 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Jasper St. Pierre (not reading bugmail) 2012-09-27 23:58:21 UTC 
The background was changed to have a higher opacity, it looks like?
Comment 4 Allan Day 2012-10-30 20:47:58 UTC 
We can still increase the opacity a bit more here. Seems like a good gnome-love bug.
Comment 5 Stéphane Démurget 2012-10-30 22:08:28 UTC 
Created attachment 227689 [details] [review]
Hardest patch e--ver

Remove the custom background: the default one is really the best (I tried with intermediate opacity settings).
Comment 6 Allan Day 2012-10-30 22:53:00 UTC 
Thanks Stéphane!
Comment 7 Florian Müllner 2012-10-30 23:06:11 UTC 
(In reply to comment #5)
> Hardest patch e--ver
> 
> Remove the custom background: the default one is really the best

For historical reference: the reason for using a custom background was to have it *less* transparent than the default one. Obviously that was before someone (Allan?) made the default background fully opaque :-)
Comment 8 Allan Day 2012-10-30 23:08:14 UTC 
I blame Jimmac. :)