GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 707671
with Show Desktop Icons enabled, icons are not faded to/from Activities Overview
Last modified: 2013-11-14 16:03:47 UTC
GNOME Shell dramatically fades so many other windows in so many different ways, why can't it fade the root window controlled by Nautilus / Files? If you want the icons to be disappeared entirely, can't you fade Files' root window to fully transparent while you fade to blackened a root root window of the background image?
Created attachment 259816 [details] [review] overview: Fix stacking of background and desktop icons (In reply to comment #0) > GNOME Shell dramatically fades so many other windows in so many different ways, > why can't it fade the root window controlled by Nautilus / Files? It is called a bug. The code to fade desktop icons has existed for a long time, but it was broken at some point by (seemingly) unrelated changes. If desktop icons are enabled and not covered by maximized windows, we will fade them in/out during overview transitions. However when moving background handling into mutter/gnome-shell, we ended up with the overview background on top of the DESKTOP window clone, hiding the fade transition. Fix the stack order to bring the effect back.
Review of attachment 259816 [details] [review]: OK.
Attachment 259816 [details] pushed as 175c5d9 - overview: Fix stacking of background and desktop icons
I tried to dig my way through the code on this one, but I wasn't able to figure it out. Very cool simple fix! Nice work!