Compiz does not integrate well with the system colour scheme

[Lee Hyde]

Various compiz plug-ins (e.g. resize info, resize window, grid, grab handles,
etc.) use coloured visual elements (e.g. resizing rectangles, info/title labels
and grab targets) to acheive their desired effect.

At present, all of these plug-ins allow the user to manually select the colours
of these various visual elements. It would be preferable, however, for these
plug-ins to draw this information (automatically) from the systems colour
scheme/theme (varying alpha transparency, hue, saturation, etc. from a base
colour defined in the system colour scheme/theme as necessary). I user override
would still be desirable, but the user should not need to manually reconfigure
each and every such plug-in whenever they change colour scheme/theme.

An cogent example; A default installation of Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot)
comes preconfigured with (broadly) orange coloured visual elements. This suits
the default Ubuntu 11.10 colour scheme/theme very well. However, where a user
to switch to a custom colour scheme/theme, such orange visual elements might
look out of place. They certainly do with my currently preferred colour
scheme/theme, eGTK (from elementaryOS).

To surmise, a more consistent and possibly centralised approach (with the
option of per plug-in user overrides) to colour scheme management and its
application to compiz plug-ins would be desirable.

[Lee Hyde (anubeon)]

Various compiz plug-ins (e.g. resize info, resize window, grid, grab handles, etc.) use coloured visual elements (e.g. resizing rectangles, info/title labels and grab targets) to acheive their desired effect.

At present, all of these plug-ins allow the user to manually select the colours of these various visual elements. It would be preferable, however, for these plug-ins to draw this information (automatically) from the systems colour scheme/theme (varying alpha transparency, hue, saturation, etc. from a base colour defined in the system colour scheme/theme as necessary). I user override would still be desirable, but the user should not need to manually reconfigure each and every such plug-in whenever they change colour scheme/theme.

An cogent example; A default installation of Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) comes preconfigured with (broadly) orange coloured visual elements. This suits the default Ubuntu 11.10 colour scheme/theme very well. However, where a user to switch to a custom colour scheme/theme, such orange visual elements might look out of place. They certainly do with my currently preferred colour scheme/theme, eGTK (from elementaryOS).

To surmise, a more consistent and possibly centralised approach (with the option of per plug-in user overrides) to colour scheme management and its application to compiz plug-ins would be desirable.

[quequotion (quequotion)]

Was this bug resolved?

I ask because I find that compiz usually does follow the system color scheme lately, though I am at the moment experiencing a bug: the cube walls will not be transparent (despite transparent Wallpaper and cube) while at the same time all the compiz components are startlingly back to default orange.

I know it's not the same as this bug, but if something were done to have compiz follow the system color scheme, as appears to have been done, finding out what breaks that could help me find what breaks the transparency.

[quequotion (quequotion)]

I found out what was breaking transparency, sort of; it was not related to this bug report.

Still, for a while compiz was following my system color scheme for quite a while, until one day it went back to Ubuntu orange and purple and I've had to manually set colors ever since.

[quequotion (quequotion)]

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