ambiance panel buttons do not have contrast

[xl_cheese]

Binary package hint: light-themes

In the dark ambiance theme the panel buttons are black while their borders are black.

Try something like this in the gtkrc

style "murrine-panelbuttons" = "panel"
{
 bg[NORMAL] = shade (0.18, @bg_color) # "#f6f4f1"
 bg[PRELIGHT] = shade (0.26, @bg_color)
 bg[ACTIVE] = shade (0.40, @selected_bg_color)
 bg[SELECTED] = shade (0.70, @selected_bg_color)
 engine "murrine" {

  contrast = 0.4 # 0.8 for less contrast, more than 1.0 for more contrast on borders
  glazestyle = 0 # 0 = flat highlight, 1 = curved highlight, 2 = concave style, 3 = top curved highlight, 4 = beryl highlight
                glow_shade = 1.3
  glowstyle = 4 # 0 = top, 1 = bottom, 2 = top and bottom, 3 = horizontal, 4 = centered glow
  gradient_shades = {1.1,0.8,1.0,0.9}
  highlight_shade = 1.6

 }

}

widget_class "PanelToplevel.*<GtkButton>*" style "murrine-panelbuttons"
class "PanelToplevel.*<GtkButton>*" style "murrine-panelbuttons"
widget "*PanelApplet*" style "murrine-panelbuttons"

[Chris Johnston (cjohnston)]

Please provide a screenshot of what buttons you are referring to.

[xl_cheese (xl-cheese)]

Here's a screenshot of what I'm referring to. the gtk stuff I post may still need some fine tuning, but the the idea is that for dark buttons they need a lighter outline rather than a darker one. It makes them stand out better.

[xl_cheese (xl-cheese)]

this is a bit better.

style "murrine-panelbuttons" = "panel"
{
 bg[NORMAL] = shade (0.18, @bg_color) # "#f6f4f1"
 bg[PRELIGHT] = shade (0.26, @bg_color)
 bg[ACTIVE] = shade (0.40, @selected_bg_color)
 bg[SELECTED] = shade (0.70, @selected_bg_color)
 engine "murrine" {

  contrast = 7.8 # 0.8 for less contrast, more than 1.0 for more contrast on borders
  glazestyle = 3 # 0 = flat highlight, 1 = curved highlight, 2 = concave style, 3 = top curved highlight, 4 = beryl highlight
                glow_shade = 1.3
  glowstyle = 4 # 0 = top, 1 = bottom, 2 = top and bottom, 3 = horizontal, 4 = centered glow
  gradient_shades = {0.5,0.6,0.2,0.7}
  highlight_shade = 1.5

 }

}

widget_class "PanelToplevel.*<GtkButton>*" style "murrine-panelbuttons"
class "PanelToplevel.*<GtkButton>*" style "murrine-panelbuttons"
widget "*PanelApplet*" style "murrine-panelbuttons"

[James Schriver (dashua)]

Fix in my junk branch. This can be accomplished with border_shades and border_colors. Please test and report back.

[xl_cheese (xl-cheese)]

See attached screenshot for a close up of what I'm thinking.

Note the "help" button pictured. There's a dark 1px border surrounding the entire button. Then there is a lighter 1px border giving the button the appearance of having thickness. Then inside that is the gradient fill.

The dark panel buttons aren't the same.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package light-themes - 0.1.5.6

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light-themes (0.1.5.6) lucid; urgency=low

  * Bringing things back inline with the original design

light-themes (0.1.5.5) lucid; urgency=low

  [ James Schriver ]
  * Ambiance/Radiance: Deprecate pixmap scrollbars now drawn via the murrine engine
   - Visual refresh of buttons, notebook, comboboxentry for theme consistency
   - Add border_shade and colors
   - Add additional murrine options through_shades, shadow_shades, etc.
   - Sync scale with visual scrollbar changes for theme consistency
   - Fix blurry BG[INSENSITIVE] text/menubar text
   - Fix GtkScrollbar::min-slider-length = 36 (LP: #533537).
   - Adjust global border_shades for consistent shading with combobox
  * Ambiance: Fix text on memenu (LP: #532843).
   - Clean up panel; Fix (LP: #533081) panel buttons with no contrast
   - Fix statusbar (LP: #532964).
   - Fix dark text CPU applet on panel (LP: #532385).
   - Fix system monitor artifacts (LP: #533271).
   - Fix Gedit and Gimp menu separators (LP: #532323).
  * Radiance: Fix indistinguishable notebook tabs (LP: #532340).
   - Fix statusbar (LP: #532693).
  * Ambiance/Radiance: Fix metacity frame_style_maximized close and minimize unfocused prelight (LP: #532690).

  [ Kenneth Wimer ]
  * Ambiance/Radiance: set trough border only under scrollbar
  * Ambiance/Radiance: set automnemonics to 1 (lp: #532927)
  * Setting focus_color
 -- Kenneth Wimer <email address hidden> Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:42:16 +0000