Firefox auto scroll icon is not transparent

Bug #304306 reported by Luke Symes
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Mozilla Firefox
Fix Released
Medium
firefox (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

With autoscroll enabled (Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> General), firefox displays a non-transparent (jagged) autoscroll icon when you middle click to scroll. This only occurs on the linux firefox, i.e. works perfectly on Windows & Mac with a smooth, antialiased autoscroll icon. It has been reported upstream (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=429698) but there has been no comment there as of now. The problem is that the current icon displayed is ugly, and is a letdown compared to firefox on Windows and Mac.

Release: Ubuntu 8.10
Firefox version: 3.0.4

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In , Gavin Sharp (gavin-sharp) wrote :

(see bug 387018 for previous discussion)

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In , Dao (dao) wrote :

*** Bug 466074 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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Luke Symes (allsymes) wrote :

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

With autoscroll enabled (Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> General), firefox displays a non-transparent (jagged) autoscroll icon when you middle click to scroll. This only occurs on the linux firefox, i.e. works perfectly on Windows & Mac with a smooth, antialiased autoscroll icon. It has been reported upstream (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=429698) but there has been no comment there as of now. The problem is that the current icon displayed is ugly, and is a letdown compared to firefox on Windows and Mac.

Release: Ubuntu 8.10
Firefox version: 3.0.4

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Luke Symes (allsymes) wrote :
Changed in firefox:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
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Khalil Fazal (canadafreakazoid) wrote :

This issue is definately confirmed, this bug has always been around.
Better attachment:

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John Vivirito (gnomefreak) wrote :

changed status to confirmed due to upstream bug

Changed in firefox-3.0:
status: New → Confirmed
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Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek) wrote :

Changed to triaged and importance medium

Changed in firefox-3.0:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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In , Wildmyron (wildmyron) wrote :

*** Bug 475042 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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Dan Quade (danquade) wrote :

Firefox guys can't fix this because the problem in fact lies in GTK.

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In , Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek) wrote :

Any updates on this? This issue still appears to be unresolved in firefox 3.6.

This bug has been reported on Ubuntu Launchpad as:
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/304306

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In , Khalil Fazal (canadafreakazoid) wrote :

(In reply to comment #4)
> Any updates on this? This issue still appears to be unresolved in firefox 3.6.
>
> This bug has been reported on Ubuntu Launchpad as:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/304306

As unimatrix says in your link, nothing much can be done on this side of the pond.

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Michał Gołębiowski-Owczarek (mgol) wrote :

@unimatrix
Is there any GTK bug report about this? And how did this work in the previous Firefox version? Did they use some obsolete but working correctly functions?

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Orr Dvory (gnudles) wrote :

If you change the icon from circle to square it will look OK...

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Michał Gołębiowski-Owczarek (mgol) wrote :

@Orr Dvory
What do You mean?

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Orr Dvory (gnudles) wrote :

I mean that because the natural shape of the square, you don't need to "antialias" it. you also don't need alpha channel...
;-)

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In , Michał Gołębiowski-Owczarek (mgol) wrote :

It's not only the x86 Linux, for x86_64 it's the same.

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In , Michał Gołębiowski-Owczarek (mgol) wrote :

(In reply to comment #5)
> As unimatrix says in your link, nothing much can be done on this side of the
> pond.

Are You sure? The discussion under:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=387018
seems to show otherwise.

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Michał Gołębiowski-Owczarek (mgol) wrote :

The problem persists in Lucid. I don't know how to add it as in Lucid it is simply a firefox package, not firefox-3.6 or sth. like that.

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Michał Gołębiowski-Owczarek (mgol) wrote :

I added a watch to GTK+ bugtracker.

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Michał Gołębiowski-Owczarek (mgol) wrote :

@unimatrix
> Firefox guys can't fix this because the problem in fact lies in GTK.

Are You sure? The discussion under:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=387018
seems to show otherwise.

Changed in libgtkhtml:
status: Unknown → New
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Micah Gersten (micahg) wrote :

Marking this Triaged as we have an upstream bug.

affects: libgtkhtml → gtk2
Changed in firefox-3.5 (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Triaged
Changed in firefox (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Triaged
Changed in gtk2:
importance: Unknown → Medium
Changed in firefox:
importance: Unknown → Medium
Changed in gtk2:
status: New → Unknown
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Orr Dvory (gnudles) wrote :

any updates? why does it still appear in gtk3?

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In , Jk Abrams (jonasa) wrote :

Still here in Firefox 8.0.1 in KDE (Arch Linux), it got worse in a recent upgrade, 8 or 7, I dont remember. Does this represent someones attempt at fixing this bug? The rounded-corner rectangle in the background is actually semi-transparent, however the round jagged image is well, still jagged.
See attatchment.

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In , Jk Abrams (jonasa) wrote :

Created attachment 578707
Firefox 8.0.1 autoscroll, Artch Linux KDE 4.7.3

Does this represent progress or regression?

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In , Dao (dao) wrote :

Created attachment 668011
patch

I copied winstripe's autoscroll.png, since gnomestripe's old transparent autoscroll icons don't fall back nicely when the window manager is not compositing.

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In , Karlt (karlt) wrote :

Comment on attachment 668011
patch

> background-position: center top;
> background-image: url("chrome://global/skin/icons/autoscroll.png");
> background-color: transparent;
>+ background-position: right top;

Please remove the "center top" first background-position.

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In , Karlt (karlt) wrote :

Patch in bug 797894.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 797894 ***

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In , Karlt (karlt) wrote :

*** Bug 429698 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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In , Dao (dao) wrote :
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In , Ed Morley (edmorley) wrote :
Changed in firefox:
status: Confirmed → Invalid
no longer affects: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
no longer affects: firefox-3.5 (Ubuntu)
Changed in firefox (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
Changed in firefox:
importance: Medium → Unknown
status: Invalid → Unknown
Changed in firefox:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Unknown → Fix Released
Changed in firefox (Ubuntu):
importance: Medium → Low
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