Comment 2 for bug 1022216

IMHO consistency with Slingshot doesn't really work here because:
1) Indicators are now in popovers too, so we're consistent with all of them and nothing in particular
2) The white bar not completely covering the icons just doesn't ring the Slingshot bell or even remind me of indicators because they all fit their content into the background

Of course we need to push consistency, but this just looks insufficient to me now. I'd prefer something along the lines of http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-puB3Stk1_t0/T3KGsJizW6I/AAAAAAAAA0A/goPzbEc3CWY/s1600/true-app-center.png

Another problem I've discovered with the white theme is the fact that some foreign icons have shadows which are of course invisible on a dark dock and therefore the dock always looks flat. However, shadows are visible on the white dock and combined with same flat borders they just don't feel right. I'm attaching a screenshot showing that.

I agree about contrast; now it's definitely harder to tell what belongs to window content and what belongs to the dock. Especially so since window content tends to be bright/white (that's why we have a dark cursor).

Also, with a white dock a dark wingpanel is not visually supported by anything. Making it the only dark patch on the desktop is not a good idea.

So I'm also leaning towards fixing the dark theme instead of working on this white one.