Unity

Some indicators are completely white when the dash is open

Bug #855661 reported by Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
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unity (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

When the dash is opened Unity now draws the indicators using a white mask (revision 1562 [1]). This is nice, but it doesn't work well for some more complex indicators (such as the keyboard layout indicator) and it cause not to notify the icon change to an active icon (i.e. no blue envelope is shown!).

See the screenshot for more informations. Also if you make the indicator-messaging menu to activate the envelope will stay white.

I've a fix for this in progress, but it also causes as side-effect that a selected indicator won't be colored using the panel default color, but it will be "more white" too. I honestly prefer this behavior, but I need some feedback. Also I need to improve it for clear themes.
This is how it is rendered: http://twitpic.com/6obdpl

[1] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~unity-team/unity/trunk/revision/1562

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Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0) wrote :
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Andrea Cimitan (cimi) wrote :

I think the dash should close when clicking on an indicator. By the way, I think I would fix it in that way (I didn't test it), patch attached

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tags: added: patch
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)
Changed in unity:
status: New → Confirmed
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manny (estelar57) wrote :

yes, the white icons are indeed annoying.

Skype also turns white and other applets.

i would also like to see a replacement icon for that keyboard language switching icon that better matches the other panel icons. Any bugs open for that?

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Bilal Shahid (s9iper1) wrote :

when the dash is open they become more and more brighter i think they should be as normal as in destop state.

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Changed in unity:
importance: Undecided → Low
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
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Seth Johnson (sethj) wrote :

As part of the big bug review for 16.04 LTS I have tested this on 15.10 and the bug is still there. I repro'd using telegram.org's Linux client.

tags: added: desktop-bugscrub-triaged
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