"Transparent" themed docky, is invisible when "adding new dock", since its empty

[Luis Montiel]

hp laptop with ubuntu 10.04
Video integrated intel x3100
Mono 2.4.4
Using "Transparent" docky theme:
When adding a new dock, its not visible and one may think it was never added.

[Robert Dyer (psybers)]

@Dan: ideas how we can put a glow onto nothing? ;-)

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

Robert,

Maybe make a rule that if there is seemingly nothing in the area, to draw a predefined shape or fall back to another theme or something?

[Tom Swartz (tom-swartz07)]

if the image file for the dock is transparent, what if you simply add a highlight to the border of the image file, similar to how the selected dock glows when editing its settings?

See the screenshot: there's an orange glow around the selected dock. perhaps you could outline all of the docks with a gray/silvery color to draw attention to them?

[Robert Dyer (psybers)]

@Tom: thats what Daniel was saying, basically we need to just make sure we draw *something*, which then will get a glow.

[Tom Swartz (tom-swartz07)]

true. I think there might be a misunderstanding; when the transparent dock theme is selected, is it simply a transparent "alpha channel" image, or is it in fact no image at all?

If it is in fact a transparent image, then it might not be too difficult to add a secondary glow to the other 'non-selected' docks.

Do you get what Im saying? I could run a mock up really easily to explain if not..

[Robert Dyer (psybers)]

Fixed in rev 1320.