Allow unity-panel.menuitem to paint window title text for maximized window in new Unity Decorator(Trusty)

Khurshid Alam is correct. According to the Unity theming documenation for Trusty 14.04 the panel text should be set by the UnityPanelWidget as follows:

UnityPanelWidget,
.unity-panel {
    background-color: shade (@dark_bg_color, 1.5);

    color: @dark_fg_color; /* Text color */ <--- ***SHOULD BE SET HERE***
 }

but it is actually being set by the UnityDecoration "top" code here:

/* This will theme the top decoration, so the whole space above the window */
UnityDecoration.top {
    border: 1px solid shade (@bg_color, 0.5);
    border-bottom-width: 0;
    border-radius: 8px 8px 0 0; /* Corner radius, only the top ones should be */
    padding: 1px 8px 0 8px; /* This padding will be applied to the content of the top layout */
    background-color: shade (@dark_bg_color, 1.5); /* Decoration background */
    color: @dark_fg_color; /* The foreground color will be used to paint the text */ <--- ***ACTUALLY BEING SET HERE ***
    text-shadow: 1px 0 #333, -1px 0 #333, 0 1px #333, 0 -1px #333;
}

This makes it impossible to use a dark panel with light window treatment as the title color for light window treatment is dark making the panel label (e.g. "Ubuntu Desktop") and maximized title unreadable on a dark panel.

In short the panel text color should be set by the unity panel widget class not by the unity decoration class.

Since this problem is already bug reported I will not open another bug report but track progress under this bug report number.

Thanks,
B.Bogert

FYI, the fix will land soon, I've updated the wiki with few new parameters we now handle.

Please check if everything is fine for you ;)

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-themes - 14.04+14.04.20140402-0ubuntu1

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ubuntu-themes (14.04+14.04.20140402-0ubuntu1) trusty; urgency=low

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * Ambiance,Radiance: set the backdrop color for unity-panel widgets
    (LP: #1296866)
 -- Ubuntu daily release <email address hidden> Wed, 02 Apr 2014 11:14:22 +0000

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 7.2.0+14.04.20140402-0ubuntu1

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unity (7.2.0+14.04.20140402-0ubuntu1) trusty; urgency=medium

  [ Stephen M. Webb ]
  * Release 7.2.0.

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * CompizUtils: only shadow-decorate alpha windows that have full
    decorations as well Since alpha windows might have custom shapes,
    it's safer not to shadow-decorate them unless they don't provide,
    for sure, a full decoration. (LP: #1281825)
  * Panel, Decorations: draw the background under the text glyphs before
    the text itself (LP: #723167)
  * PanelMenuView: use panel style context for painting the panel title
    (LP: #1296866)
  * SpreadFilter: use launcher width, scale on HiDPI, match also
    application names Launcher Width is now considered in setting the
    offset of the scale filter (fixes padding when launcher is in
    autohide mode). The search bar is correctly scaled when in HiDPI
    mode. We use ApplicationManager and thus BAMF to match windows by
    their name or app name. (LP: #1281297)
 -- Ubuntu daily release <email address hidden> Wed, 02 Apr 2014 11:04:11 +0000

Thanks. This bug is fixed for me.