should highlight the selected items

These icons are currently at full brightness. Looking at the design I suggest we reduce the opacity of the icon/icons by 20% so there is some contrast on mouseover/selection

Reducing the full brightness is achievable. Getting the icons below the mouse to be brighter is also achievable.

I think the current brightness is cool and relaxed. I would rather look
at upping the brightness of the mouseover highlight than dropping the
brightness of the normal case.

Mark

Hi Mark, if the icon is white this wouldn't work though.

I think Jay actually means increasing the amount/intensity of glow around the icons - they are currently white so the solid areas can't get any brighter. Mark, we'll look at this as a possible solution first, it would be a shame to have to dull things down.

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 0.2.30-0ubuntu1

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unity (0.2.30-0ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low

  * New upstream release fixing those issues:
    - clicking on an app window in workspace switcher does not get it to focus
      (lp: #612327)
    - App name stays in panel after exit (lp: #613087)
    - Bright line at the bottom of the launcher bar (lp: #613084)
    - additional round corner when clicking on application places item
      (lp: #612542)
    - removing active application in the launcher make unity crashes
      (lp: #612535)
    - Intermittent loss of all input (lp: #607519)
    - Wallpaper picture-options are not all taken into account (lp: #605788)
    - Add some sort of hint that the Ubuntu circle is click-able (lp: #592787)
    - doesn't render appmenu accelerators correctly (lp: #601011)
    - should highlight the selected items (lp: #600946)
    - Files Place displays mimetype icons for file items when
      thumbnails are available (lp: #599896)
  * debian/control: build-depends on libxcb-icccm1-dev and libutouch-grail-dev
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:31:40 +0200