Switch off chameleonic notification color

Bug #1014474 reported by Cassidy James Blaede
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
elementary OS
Fix Released
Wishlist
Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff

Bug Description

What it says on the tin. We should pull an Amy Winehouse and switch the notify-osd background color Back to Black.

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Cassidy James Blaede (cassidyjames) wrote :

Apparently it's hardcoded in the source. So we *have* to patch if we don't want it. o.O

I think an Angry Linus is entirely called for: http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/22164944.jpg

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Cassidy James Blaede (cassidyjames) wrote :

Might be hackable if we add in a desktop.unity.average-desktop-color dconf key and set it to #000000.

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Cassidy James Blaede (cassidyjames) wrote :

Oops, meant average-bg-color, as seen here: http://i.imgur.com/n3yLG.png

Changed in elementaryos:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
milestone: none → luna-beta1
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George Karavasilev (kokoto-java) wrote :

The desktop.unity.average-bg-color does not work for notifications, it only works for Dash an Launcher.
I suggest a patch that is to make the bubbles black with 80 or 85% opacity and be done with :)

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Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel) wrote :
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Cody Garver (codygarver) wrote :

Since, according to George above, the key does not affect notify-osd, I suggest the custom notify-osd shnatsel linked be added to the dailies. I played with it myself and poured over the webupd8 comments and found no complaints that would negatively affect our implementation. This will suffice as a nice band-aid until lp:pantheon-notify is mature.

That's the easiest of the 3 solutions I came up with: patch notify-osd to accept colors, rollback to a notify-osd before color was changed, or my preferred option, use someone else's custom notify-osd.

Changed in elementaryos:
assignee: nobody → Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)
status: Confirmed → In Progress
Changed in elementaryos:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Changed in elementaryos:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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