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Bug 663906 - Transparent bg settings dialog is confusing
Transparent bg settings dialog is confusing
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-terminal
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.2.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: GNOME Terminal Maintainers
GNOME Terminal Maintainers
[obsolete-gsettings]
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-11-12 08:28 UTC by Paweł Prażak
Modified: 2012-05-03 19:10 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Attachments
Screenshot of a problem (129.27 KB, image/png)
2011-11-12 08:28 UTC, Paweł Prażak
Details
Mock up, proposition (29.86 KB, image/png)
2011-11-12 08:29 UTC, Paweł Prażak
Details

Description Paweł Prażak 2011-11-12 08:28:24 UTC
Created attachment 201279 [details]
Screenshot of a problem

Description of problem:
It looks like this:

- Transparent Background
  Shade transparent or image background:
  None ----------------------------------------------------------- Max

1. What does 'shade transparent' actually mean? A shade of transparent? Doesn't
sound right.
2. Setting is named 'Transparent Background' but setting it to 'None' causes
the background to be 0%, fully transparent background and setting to 'Maximum'
causes the bg to be at 100% transparency, so it is not transparent bg.
3. The whole tab is tricky because the slider bellow is active even if the
radio button on transparent bg is not checked.

Actual results:
Confusing description with reverse logic and 
I'll attach screanshot illustrating the problem

Expected results:
Clear and simple settings description with one obvious interpretation.
I'll attach a mock-up of expected results.
Comment 1 Paweł Prażak 2011-11-12 08:29:22 UTC
Created attachment 201280 [details]
Mock up, proposition

Where setting Transparency: None should do what is says, set bg transparency to
None, so the bg is at 100%
Comment 2 Christian Persch 2011-11-12 15:51:49 UTC
Thanks for the mockup. However, transparency and image background will be removed in the next version, so this isn't necessary anymore.
Comment 3 Tobias Wolf 2012-02-02 17:56:37 UTC
Don’t remove transparency, Christian. Why?
Comment 4 Christian Persch 2012-05-03 19:10:14 UTC
This bug is obsolete on master because the feature it refers to has been removed.