Unity

dash transparency and readability

Bug #733160 reported by eric on 2011-03-11

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #837993: Where the average background colour is either very light or dark, adjust this value to darken/lighten in order to preserve readability. Edit Remove

This bug affects 5 people

	Status	Importance	Assigned to
Ayatana Design	New	Undecided	Unassigned
Unity	Incomplete	Undecided	Unassigned
unity (Ubuntu)	Incomplete	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: unity

The dash in unity (places, apps) is semi-transparent and depending on what app or web site is in the background, readability can be very hard. I suggest to darken the background more, (even totally dark) or at least give the opportunity to the user to adjust it through a unity plugin in compiz.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: unity 3.6.4-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-5.32-genUser Name-pae 2.6.38-rc6
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-5-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,mousepoll,vpswitch,regex,animation,snap,expo,move,compiztoolbox,place,grid,imgpng,gnomecompat,wall,ezoom,workarounds,staticswitcher,resize,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,scale,session,unityshell]
Date: Fri Mar 11 10:57:39 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100816.1)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=fr_FR:en
LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-03-09 (1 days ago)

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eric (obrowny06) wrote on 2011-03-11:

Dependencies.txt Edit (5.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GconfCompiz.txt Edit (36.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Marco Biscaro (marcobiscaro2112) on 2011-03-11

Changed in unity:
status:	New → Incomplete
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Incomplete

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Matej Moško (gnaag) wrote on 2011-04-17:

I like this idea. There should be a slider for transparency of unity's launcher and dash in configuration. Just like the one that is for the top panel

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Edmond Dantes (edantes) wrote on 2012-08-04:

This feature request was forgotten? I find Dash impossible to read in many situations (Ubuntu 12.04), especially with the Applications lens. I woul love to have control over the size of the Dash screen and icons.