Need to look very close to know with what accounts I'm going to send the message

[Jorge Suárez de Lis]

In some early versions of this new Gwibber 2.29 the bottom bar the "send with" buttons had some dark gradient when selected. Now they don't, and it's true that they look somewhat more elegant, but it's harder to tell at first glance whether they're selected or not, and some times I send messages to wrong accounts if I don't pay enough attention.

I attached an image with four bottom bars. The first one is the original, and the other 3 are mockups made with Gimp:

1 - The unselected ones have the icon with 0% saturation (This would work great for all icons except for Dig accounts)
2 - The selected ones have a 2px and darker border.
3 - A combination of both.

[Steve Holmes (bouncysteve)]

This is a usability problem. The difference between enabled and disabled graphics is not sufficient.

[Steve Holmes (bouncysteve)]

Ivanka, subscribing you to see if you have a view on this.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Is the situation improved since this bug was reported? isn't it?

[Jorge Suárez de Lis (ys)]

No, it's still the same. I'm using 2.31.1~bzr723-0ubuntu1~daily1 from the PPA

[mlissner (mlissner-michaeljaylissner)]

Yeah, I have this exact problem. Would love a patch...even a monkey patch that pointed me towards icons I could replace myself.

My suggestion would be for the buttons to have a red X on them if they are disabled. It needs to be obvious at a mere glance, because people are thinking about what they're writing, and it's very easy to just press enter when finished...

[Jorge Suárez de Lis (ys)]

I like your approach, mlissner. I've made another mockup.

[John Drinkwater (johndrinkwater)]

#7,
Looks good, as ticks and crosses can be seen if you're colour blind or not. Imagine you'll need to use stock icons for disabled overlay though.