Make the panel and dock transparency configurable

This actually has nothing to do with the dock/launcher.

The decision to make the panel (top bar) transparent was an upstream decision by the Gnome guys. It's just a coincidence that the dock/launcher is also transparent.

I don't like it either. Maybe log a new bug to disable or make the transparency level in the panel (top bar) configurable. Or reword this bug in that way.

You know... I thought things might have changed, if those working on the project don't like something, but can't get it changed, what hope do I have?? Why mark this bug as invalid if you agree that it's a problem.

Canonical's customers do not understand the shifting relationships between different components of the distribution, let alone what this new relationship with upstream gnome means... I have no idea where else to report such a thing.

So, be it, I have reported it, Canonical doesn't care, end of story... just like almost every other bug I've ever reported. I wonder why I bother.

I understand. Reporting bugs is messy and more complicated than many of us would like.

Also this feature is not one that Ubuntu would have chosen to implement. We just inherited it from Gnome.

I marked this bug as invalid because the way it is worded is presently invalid (not a bug at all, but a feature). As mentioned in comment #2, if you would like to convert this into an enhancement request then it needs to be reworded significantly or replaced by a new bug report. I will try to do that now for you so that you don't need to...

On the other hand, the feature request already exists -> bug 1528915

I understand that it's not you specifically, and I apologise that I did not find the earlier duplicate... the search did not find it, although to be fair it is more than 2 years old, and logged against a respin... which makes me think it's a hopeless cause.... like many other issues, how likely is a duplicate of a 2 year old issue in the gnome respin ever likely to be considered again?

I cannot deny that the work done to make Gnome 3 acceptable to regular Ubuntu users over the last few months has been nothing more than incredible, but I can't help but think it shouldn't have been necessary.

Ubuntu's direct involvement in Gnome Shell is only getting started, so don't let the age of existing bug reports get you down. Just last week I closed an upstream Gnome Shell bug that had been open for over 6 years.