Ayatana Design

Default Icon backlight on Launcher obscures the Icons awfully

Bug #842318 reported by Eylem on 2011-09-06

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #962120: Launcher - Add API to allow apps to override the Launcher tile colourisation with a colour of their choosing. Edit Remove

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Ayatana Design	New	Undecided	Unassigned
	Unity	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

As far as I know, the backlight by design averages all the colors in each icon. The result is that you have a backlight that approximates the icon colors, and thus all the contrast that makes an icon recognizable and aesthetically pleasing is dead. This is blatantly true for icons with a single dominant color (e.g. the new Ubuntu Software Center icon). Please change this default behavior. By default, the backlight should be either completely off, or some dark grey color that matches the Launcher.

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David Gomes (davidgomes) wrote on 2011-09-06:

I think this needs design, so I added it.

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote on 2011-09-06:

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 838050, so is being marked as such. Any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

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