I'd much rather have consistent looking menus than an always transparent panel. The menus looking totally different than the panel would *really* bother me.
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Georgi Karavasilev <motors...@gmail.com>wrote: > The unity panel has several issues that have been existing since 11.04: > - The panel shadow is not a real proper GL drawn shadow, but rather a > .PNG that is being repeated right below the panel and that causes the > following issues: > - The higher the value of panel's opacity is, the smaller the panel > shadow is, hence resulting in disappearing completely when the opacity > level is below 0.3500 > - The panel opacity is tied to the file manager drawing the desktop > - The panel transparency is not completely chameleonic (or custom > coloured if the user has set a custom colour via CCSM), but it rather mixes > the chameleonic colour with the GTK theme set colour (gradient) for the > panel, hence resulting in being next to impossible to make the launcher and > the panel being coloured the same way > - The panel is not transparent and chameleonic out of the box, but > follows the GTK theming which results in these: > - Pros: The panel is being consistent with the gtk themed indicator > menus and the appmenu > - Cons: The panel is inconsistent with the transparent and chameleonic > launcher > - There are bugs with the using panel transparency under Intel videos > like: > - When the "panel opacity toggles" is enabled and switching from one > workspace to another not using the Ctrl+Alt+Arrow keys the panel blurring > sometimes gets screwed and leaves the planned with a background blurred a > millisecond or so before the switch to the workspace > - The panel sometimes go transparent when the Dash is active, even > through there is an maximized window on this workspace > My point is - even if we forget about the bugs for a while, shouldn't the > panel be chameleonic and transparent out of the box(of course with "panel > opacity" toggles enabled so when the user maximases a window everything is > to look consistent) ? Surely that would break the consistency with the GTK > themed indicators and the appmenu , but it also would mean that the panel > will be consistent with the launcher and the chances are people spend more > time on their computers without browsing through the indicator or the > appmenu :) > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-design > Post to : unity-design@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-design > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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