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Bug 660711 - Colour preferences redesign
Colour preferences redesign
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 724110
Product: gnome-terminal
Classification: Core
Component: general
git master
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: GNOME Terminal Maintainers
GNOME Terminal Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-10-02 18:47 UTC by Hylke Bons
Modified: 2014-04-27 08:34 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
background preferences redesign (55.24 KB, image/png)
2011-10-02 18:47 UTC, Hylke Bons 		Details
color preferences redesign (83.45 KB, image/png)
2011-10-06 14:58 UTC, Hylke Bons 		Details

Description Hylke Bons 2011-10-02 18:47:03 UTC 
Created attachment 198035 [details]
background preferences redesign

I made attempt to simplify the background preferences a bit, as I wanted to change some things today but was a bit overwelmed by the number of widgets and the duality of the slider bit.

Attached is a wireframe that should make it better with fewer widgets whilst keeping all the functionality.
Comment 1 Christian Persch 2011-10-02 19:02:48 UTC 
There's no need for a new design, since _all_ of these settings are going away (already done in the 'gsettings' branch, in fact).
Comment 2 Hylke Bons 2011-10-02 19:08:03 UTC 
Is there any background on this discussion? What will be the new default values?
Comment 3 Christian Persch 2011-10-02 19:16:55 UTC 
The reason is that these settings make no sense. Why should an terminal be transparent, or have an image behind everything, but the same not apply to, say, gedit, or firefox, or evolution?

The 'new default' will be to have no special background, so that the background colour configured on the Colours tab will be used, solidly.
Comment 4 Hylke Bons 2011-10-02 19:30:44 UTC 
Ok, I'll take a look at the Colours tab too.
Comment 5 Christian Persch 2011-10-02 19:33:45 UTC 
That one could definitely do with a make-over :-)
Comment 6 Hylke Bons 2011-10-06 14:58:44 UTC 
Created attachment 198439 [details]
color preferences redesign

Colors preferences redesign as promised.
Comment 7 Tobias Wolf 2011-11-10 03:11:32 UTC 
Noway, please don’t force opaque color under any circumstance.

Why?
Comment 8 Ankur Sinha (FranciscoD) 2013-04-16 09:27:13 UTC 
I sort of liked the transparency: 

Here's a use case:

I have a cheat sheet open behind my terminal, for say c-vim keybindings. Instead of switching windows continuously, I can just look at a keybinding directly while coding. Therefore, a terminal with transparent background does make sense at times. This might apply to gedit too, evolution, not so much.

Please consider leaving transparency support in the terminal profiles. I've just updated to gnome3.8 and finding transparency support gone is a little disappointing :/

Thanks,
Ankur
Comment 9 Christian Persch 2013-04-16 10:02:13 UTC 
That doesn't belong in this bug, but see https://live.gnome.org/Terminal/FAQ for how you can still use transparency.
Comment 10 Nirbheek Chauhan 2013-05-15 04:29:43 UTC 
(In reply to comment #9)
> That doesn't belong in this bug, but see https://live.gnome.org/Terminal/FAQ
> for how you can still use transparency.

Setting that property has no effect with Mutter. I've filed bug 700357 about this.
Comment 11 Christian Persch 2014-04-27 08:34:28 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 724110 ***