Regression: In 0.8.1, "Request attention" is no longer indicated

[Ryan Thompson]

In 0.8.0, a window that was requesting attention would turn its indicator light red to indicate such. In 0.8.1, this no longer occurs. The lights are always blue, even in situations where I am sure that windows are requesting attention.

[Jason Smith (jassmith)]

I cant reproduce this in bzr. Can you please confirm this against latest bzr and give exact steps to reproduce.

[Ryan Thompson (rct86)]

Ok, I'll try that. For the record, I am currently using gnome-do_0.8.1~trunk+r1031-0~8.10~ppa1_amd64, which I built myself because the ppa doesn't seem to build amd64 versions.

[Alex Launi (alexlauni)]

What Ubuntu version are you using? I have seen this in jaunty with pidgin but it's not Do's fault, it's a pidgin issue.

[Ryan Thompson (rct86)]

I'm using Intrepid, but I installed a later version of Pidgin myself. I will downgrade to the standard Intrepid Pidgin and see if that fixes it.

[Ryan Thompson (rct86)]

I figured out the problem. In 0.8.0, the "Request attention" status was indicated by changing the color to red. Now, it's just indicated by a *brighter* blue. I didn't notice the subtle color change, but I did notice the lack of redness, so I thought it wasn't working.

So, now, my bug report is that I liked the color change better for the purpose of requesting attention.

[Jason Smith (jassmith)]

Can you tell me what theme you are using so I can test this out. This
should not really happen.

On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 17:29 +0000, Darwin Award Winner wrote:
> I figured out the problem. In 0.8.0, the "Request attention" status was
> indicated by changing the color to red. Now, it's just indicated by a
> *brighter* blue. I didn't notice the subtle color change, but I did
> notice the lack of redness, so I thought it wasn't working.
>
> So, now, my bug report is that I liked the color change better for the
> purpose of requesting attention.
>
> ** Changed in: do
> Status: Incomplete => Invalid
>

[Ryan Thompson (rct86)]

If you mean GTK+ theme, I'm using a customized theme: Human controls, Oxygen icons, blue colors. I am testing the "Requesting attention" status by using purple-remote to send myself a message in Pidgin:

purple-remote 'aim:goim?screenname=MY_SCREEN_NAME&message=hi'

[Jason Smith (jassmith)]

Please attach the whole theme here

[Ryan Thompson (rct86)]

Aha! If the "Selected Items" Hue in Gnome Appearance Prefs is between 30 and 224 inclusive, the indicator will be red. Otherwise, the indicator will be blue.

[Ryan Thompson (rct86)]

The theme is immaterial. Only the hue of "Selected Items" matters. Several of the stock theme, such as Crux, exhibit the same behavior.