Ambiance and Radiance themes do not have transparent indicator panel

[George Standish]

Binary package hint: light-themes

If the panel is set to transparent background (with the Human theme), the entire panel is transparent.

If Ambiance or Radiance (or New Wave) is selected as the theme, then the indicator area has a non-transparent colored background instead.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Mar 4 23:01:33 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha amd64 (20100215.1)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: light-themes 0.1.5.3
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-15.22-generic
SourcePackage: light-themes
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-15-generic x86_64

[Chris Johnston (cjohnston)]

Thanks for reporting this bug and any supporting documentation. Since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to mark it as confirmed and let them handle it from here. Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better!

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

this is something people often use

[scholli (scholli-tz)]

fact is:

a pretty panel and no transparent- and scaling-features or a flat ugly (normal) panel but all features working as usual.

[Dmitry Agafonov (dmitry-agafonov)]

I'm using pannels with tranparency and scaling (>24 default pixels in height). Looks not good right now :(

[Dmitry Agafonov (dmitry-agafonov)]

What I see...

[jgv (visserjg)]

Look at the attached screenshots and you will see what is ment.

Op zaterdag 06-03-2010 om 19:12 uur [tijdzone +0000], schreef Dmitry
Agafonov:
> I'm using pannels with tranparency and scaling (>24 default pixels in
> height). Looks not good right now :(
>

[Dmitry Agafonov (dmitry-agafonov)]

jgv: yes, I got it, but I mean that there is one common problem for all panels and new elements such as those nice trash and indicators...

[Vish (vish)]

Irrespective of what people use ,the importance is the same.

It is a cosmetic , which does not limit the functionality of the application.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Importance

[jgv (visserjg)]

@Vish. It DOES limit the functionality of this theme! Especially users with a visual or motorial impairment need to resize elements or differentiate contrast behaviour. With the current limitations in functionality they will not adopt the new themes. In my opinion a missed opportunity in promoting Ubuntu.

[Kenneth Wimer (kwwii)]

scaling for the panel is now set in the gconf of every new user (we don't touch existing users settings by default)

[aloctavodia (aloctavodia)]

@Kenneth Wimer, when and where was the fix released? I still have not full-transparency (and my system is updated).

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

marking duplicate of the other bug 535553 which explains this clearly
bug 537474 is also a cosmetic fault and is marked high pritority ;)

[j2snowden (j2snowden)]

Affects mee too. I like to have both - upper and bottom panel FULLY transparent. This is ugly. All dark themes should aloow FULL panel transparency. Its worse than brown. That's why dark themes should never be in the main distro, in the first place. Remove the NON-TRANSPARENCY OF PANELS!!