Ubuntu
shimmer-themes package

Workspace menu items have too little contrast in Greybird

Bug #924853 reported by b3nmore on 2012-02-01

This bug affects 3 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	shimmer-themes (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Wishlist	Xubuntu Artwork

Bug Description

When using Xubuntus greybird theme, most entries in the xfce workspace menu (middle click on the desktop) are barely readable.

Xubuntu 11.10
murrine-themes 0.98.2ubuntu3 or greybird-themes 0.3+git20120122-0shimmer1

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/quantal/shimmer-themes

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Pasi Lallinaho (knome) wrote on 2012-02-01:

workspaces-desktop-middle.png Edit (26.3 KiB, image/png)

I can confirm this.

Items on the same workspace are easily readable, but if you change to say, workspace 2, the items from workspace 1 are very hard to read.

Screenshot showing the problem is attached.

Changed in murrine-themes (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Incomplete
status:	Incomplete → Opinion
status:	Opinion → Confirmed
assignee:	nobody → Xubuntu Artwork Team (xubuntu-art)

Pasi Lallinaho (knome) on 2012-02-01

summary:

- Xfce workspace menu (middle click on desktop) hard to read with
- greybird theme
+ Workspace menu items have too little contrast in Greybird

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Simon Steinbeiß (ochosi) wrote on 2012-02-01:

This is a well-known problem. I have already investigated this upstream, because it seems that the "insensitive" color in this menu is hardcoded.
Since there is currently no maintainer/developer working on xfdesktop, chances that this will get a fix soon are not extremely high.

So far it was impossible to find a workaround that only themes this specific menu and I am not willing to change the color of all menus because of a bug in xfdesktop. I will probably try to investigate again during FOSDEM though (but don't expect too much).

Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek) on 2012-02-01

Changed in murrine-themes (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist
status:	Confirmed → Triaged

Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit) on 2012-02-18

affects:

murrine-themes (Ubuntu) → shimmer-themes (Ubuntu)

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Simon Steinbeiß (ochosi) wrote on 2012-07-03:

This will be fixed as soon as the bright-menus branch of Greybird is merged to master (will happen in the next days).

Changed in shimmer-themes (Ubuntu):
status:	Triaged → Fix Committed

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2012-07-28:

This bug was fixed in the package shimmer-themes - 1.5.0-0ubuntu1

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shimmer-themes (1.5.0-0ubuntu1) quantal; urgency=low

  * Update Greybird to latest tag (v0.9). lp: #924853,#947436,#982820,#1016713
  * Update Bluebird to latest tag (v0.6). lp: #686239,#977431
  * Update Albatross to latest tag (v1.2). lp: #989814,#1023056
  * debian/control: demote gtk3-engines-unico to recommends as most themes
    are now engine-free.
  * debian/shimmer-wallpapers.install: update paths, wallpapers are in their
    own branch/subtarball now.
  * debian/shimmer-themes.install: ship Albatross' metacity theme.
  * debian/shimmer-themes.links: drop greybird -> Greybird compatibility
    symlinks. lp: #985320
-- Lionel Le Folgoc <email address hidden> Sat, 28 Jul 2012 22:28:31 +0200