gnome-shell notifications and gtk3 menus are hard to distinguish from the background

[Frederik Feichtmeier]

[Impact]

 * Gtk and shell menus, popups and notifications are often hard to distinguish against the elements that are beneath them (Yaru github bugs: https://github.com/ubuntu/yaru/issues/2221 and https://github.com/ubuntu/yaru/issues/2217)

 * backporting this QOL change to focal would greatly improve the legibility of the yaru theme(s)

 * the fixes for this are already in the master branch of https://github.com/ubuntu/yaru

[Test Case]

 * populate gtk3 menus against a nautilus window and spawn a notification by either adding or removing a favourite app in the dock with rightclick add/remove favourite. Gtk3 menus almost look like they are part of the window and not a different part of the desktop. Notifications, especially when using yaru-light are also hard to see and recognize

[Regression Potential]

 * No regression potential

 * Tested by building the fixed branch(es) of yaru and then switching back and forth the gtk3 and shell themes, please see the corresponding github pull requests https://github.com/ubuntu/yaru/pull/2232 + https://github.com/ubuntu/yaru/pull/2236

[Other Info]

 * Yaru github bugs: https://github.com/ubuntu/yaru/issues/2221 and https://github.com/ubuntu/yaru/issues/2217

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package yaru-theme - 20.10.2

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yaru-theme (20.10.2) groovy; urgency=medium

  [ Carlo Lobrano ]
  * update README pictures (LP: #1887383)
  * build: deduplicate meson.build and introduce Flavours (#1884) (LP: #1887383)
  * fix Yaru project name (LP: #1887383)
  * Fix spinner typo in tweaks.scss (LP: #1887383)
  * bootstrap: libgtk-3-dev is needed for building too (#2222) (LP: #1887383)

  [ Feichtmeier ]
  * Gtk theme new changes from upstream (#2195)
  * Special case spinners in destructive, suggested action buttons (#2187)
    (LP: #1887298)
  * Make wacom overlay visible (#2198) (LP: #1887300)
  * Shell: revert insensitive fg color change (#2199)
  * Gtk3: increase menu visibility (#2232) (LP: #1887297)
  * Shell: popup and notification improvements (#2236) (LP: #1887297)

  [ github-actions[bot] ]
  * New upstream snapshot for GTK (#2084)

  [ Ԝеѕ ]
  * icons - add application/x-sharedlib alias for x-executable (#2204)
  * Use CD image icon for apple disk images (#2233)

  [ Chris Billington ]
  * Use MESON_INSTALL_DESTDIR_PREFIX in post_install.py (#2206) (LP: #1887383)

  [ ubuntujaggers ]
  * adding second user to system-users (#2209) (LP: #1887411)
  * Adding mimetype for LMMS projects (#2249) (LP: #1887388)
  * Some missing icons for Lollypop UI (#2235) (LP: #1887419)
  * Adding new non-uniform app icon templates (#1920)
  * removing green from network-cellular-connected-symbolic (#2252) (LP:
    #1887420)
  * rounding corners on avatar-default-symbolic (#2253)

  [ R. David Dunphy ]
  * Nemo selected text highlighting and inactive pane shading (#2220)

  [ John Losito ]
  * Check for updates to GitHub Actions every weekday (#2223) (LP: #1887383)

  [ Jupiter007 ]
  * Add a solid background to microphone icons (#2200) (Closes: #2185)
    (LP: #1887389)
  * Re: Fix lock icons twisted path (#2205) (Closes: #2201) (LP: #1887393)
  * Add missing Simple-scan symbolic icons (#2244)

  [ MadsRH ]
  * Added text to img and iso icons (#2213)
  * Added mimetype for Lilypond music files (#2230) (LP: #1887388)
  * Added icon for QML mimetypes (#2226) (LP: #1887388)
  * Added mimetype icon for log files (#2229) (LP: #1887388)
  * Added more mimetype icons again (#2234) (LP: #1887388)
  * Added mimetype icon for Scala files (#2231) (LP: #1887388)

  [ Muqtadir ]
  * mimetype application-x-theme (#2243) (LP: #1887388)
  * Mimetypes application x rss+xml (#2248) (LP: #1887388)

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * debian/rules: enable building unity theme

 -- Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <email address hidden> Fri, 17 Jul 2020 02:43:50 +0200

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Hello Frederik, or anyone else affected,

Accepted yaru-theme into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/yaru-theme/20.04.8 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-focal to verification-done-focal. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-focal. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Frederik Feichtmeier (feichtmeier)]

Testing this from proposed channel, I can confirm that this fixes the issue is fixed

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package yaru-theme - 20.04.8

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yaru-theme (20.04.8) focal; urgency=medium

  [ Carlo Lobrano, Chris Billington, John Losito, ubuntujaggers ]
  * updates not related to themes and icons (LP: #1887383)

  [ Feichtmeier ]
  * Fix visibility of spinner on destructbutton (LP: #1887298)
  * Make wacom overlay visible (LP: #1887300)
  * Increase Gtk3 menu and Shell popup visibility (LP: #1887297)

  [ MadsRH, Muqtadir, Wes, ubuntujaggers ]
  * Update supported mimetype icons (LP: #1887388)

  [ ubuntujaggers ]
  * Fix system-users-symbolic to represent multiple users (LP: #1887411)
  * Add missing icons for Lollypop UI (LP: #1887419)
  * Removing green from network-cellular-connected-symbolic (LP: #1887420)
  * Rounding corners on avatar-default-symbolic (#2253)

  [ R. David Dunphy ]
  * Nemo selected text highlighting and inactive pane shading (#2220)

  [ Jupiter007 ]
  * Add a solid background to microphone icons (LP: #1887389)
  * Fix system-lock-screen twisted path (LP: #1887393)
  * Add missing Simple-scan symbolic icons (#2244)

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * debian/rules: enable building unity theme (related to lp:1887383)

 -- Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <email address hidden> Fri, 17 Jul 2020 03:15:44 +0200

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for yaru-theme has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.