Difficult seeing indicator dots when in high contrast mode

[Nathan Teodosio]

Enable gnome-control-center > accessibility > seeing > large text and open a couple of windows.

Observed: It is difficult to identify open windows in the dock. They are represented by a small dot to the left of their respective icons.

Expected: It is easy to identify open windows in the dock. E.g., they are represented similarly to the active window, probably with a different color to distinguish them from it.

The problem is more pronounced the smaller the dock size.

Surprisingly, changing the accent color (as a more vivid color would help distinguishing it from the dunkel background) does not reflect the dots size for me, they are always blue.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.10
Package: gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock 90ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.8.0-31.31-generic 6.8.1
Uname: Linux 6.8.0-31-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.28.1-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
Date: Tue Aug 20 10:28:53 2024
InstallationDate: Installed on 2022-05-16 (827 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Release amd64 (20220419)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

That's the old version of ubuntu-dock. Can you try version 93ubuntu1 from Oracular?

[Nathan Teodosio (nteodosio)]

Yup, problem still there.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Same problem in the gnome-shell launcher. And dash-to-dock/ubuntu-dock started relying on gnome-shell for the dot style in 46.2 onward. So this seems like a gnome-shell bug.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

It looks like upstream gnome-shell doesn't support accent colours on the dots(?). So while that could be improved for high contrast mode, it seems like most of the problem here might be in Ubuntu's custom gnome-shell patches.