I noticed that while creating my own themes for docky that the entire height of the background.svg is not used in the 3d mode.
i have my icon height set at 32, and i notice that various themes do not appear as they would in screenshots i see of them.
By changing my icon height to something larger like 64 i understand that this was the reason for the visual difference.
1) background svg should appear the same regardless of height
2) 3d mode should either :
a) use another background.svg, because :
i) its a different concept to theme for
iI) and it doesn't use the entire height
So what I think should occur is that :
1) a docky theme ought to look for and use background-3d.svg if in 3d mode, if it can;t find this file in the theme folder then just use the background.svg anyway.
2) that the image in the background.svg or background-3d.avg not bleed off the edge of the screen.
Attached : is an example of a background that doesn't quite work as intended between 3dmode and 2d mode.
background.svg
: the theme background.svg
screenshot.png
: intended target mode (3dmode) works fine, since the black area is supposed to only be slightly visible.
screenshot-1.png
: non intended target mode (2dmode) doesn't quite work... black area should only really be visible enough to give background area to the application dots indicators.
I agree that it would be nice to have a separate image for 3d themes. Unfortunately this is really low on the totem pole.