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gnome-shell package

Allow changing of the top panel's colour and transparency levels without need to install extension - feature request

Bug #1528915 reported by Wise Melon
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This bug affects 5 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ubuntu GNOME
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned
gnome-control-center
Won't Fix
Wishlist
gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Medium
Unassigned
gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

Currently if one wants to change the colour or transparency levels of the top panel they have to install an extension, I think that this functionality should be built-in so that one can just change these settings in the gnome-control-center rather than having to install some third-party extension.

I am running Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 with GNOME 3.18.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Dave Stroud (bigdavesr) wrote :

This has been a problem since the start of gnome 3. For some reason I can no longer get elegance color to work in 1510 I am sure that some people like a black panel,but I dont.

Wise Melon (wise-melon-deactivatedaccount)
Changed in ubuntu-gnome:
status: New → Confirmed
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Wise Melon (wise-melon-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

I have now also filed a report on this issue upstream: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=761250

Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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James Lewis (james-fsck) wrote :

This issue, whether you call it a wishlist item, or not... makes system tray icons invisible in 17.10... surely invisible icons is a bug, not a wish?

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Wishlist was correct back in May since the panel was always black back then.

Yes, I agree the importance is now higher due to problems with the new transparent panel.

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
importance: Wishlist → Medium
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
importance: Wishlist → Medium
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Wise Melon (wise-melon-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

@James, No, you misunderstand what I mean, I just mean the black, not all the icons and everything:

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in gnome-control-center:
importance: Unknown → Wishlist
status: Unknown → Won't Fix
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Dave Stroud (bigdavesr) wrote :

There is a gnome extension now that will fix this as far as to top main panel.Its called Activities configuator.maybe the wish list could be changed to have it installed by default.

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Wise Melon (wise-melon-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

@Dave, Yes, I know, that's the one I'm referring to in my bug description (in fact it's quite obvious from the title of the bug). I meant that I was requesting for this functionality to be built-in rather than having to install the extension. Anyway, this bug is almost 2-years-old, and I'm on Arch now so you Ubuntu can do what you want with it. But it should be noted that there has been a little upstream activity on the bug so maybe this will get implemented in at least a similar way to the way I requested.

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