Tasklist glow is ugly

[Michael Kuhn]

Binary package hint: human-theme

The glowing of the tasklist is achieved by drawing a colored rectangle on top of the tasklist item -- which is really ugly.
The attached patch fixes this problem.

[Foppe Hemminga (foppe)]

Hi Michael,

Thanks for filing this bug report and providing the proposed solution.
I myself also have some troubles with certain themes but those are themes not provided by Ubuntu.
In your proposal you uncomment this line:

 # Glow the tasklist by changing the color, instead of overlaying it with a rectangle
 WnckTasklist ::fade-overlay-rect = 0

From some doc at http://live.gnome.org/GnomeArt/Tutorials/GtkThemes/StyleProperties the fade-overlay-rect property is described as:

Name: fade-overlay-rect
Type: boolean
Default: TRUE
Nick: Overlay a rectangle, instead of modifying the background.
Description: Compatibility mode for pixbuf engine themes that cannot react to color changes. If enabled, a rectangle with the correct color will be drawn on top of the button. Default: TRUE

which makes me believe this solution may work in certain situations (pixbuf engine) though not always. In other words the authors of the theme will have had a reason to comment the line out.

--F

[Michael Kuhn (suraia)]

The way I read that it means fade-overlay-rect should be set to 0 for _all_ engines except the pixbuf engine.
It is also set for other themes like Human-Clearlooks and Clearlooks. Since it works with murrine I see no reason to not set it.