Ubuntu dock and panel doesn't respect the color choice of the Gnome Shell theme

[Ubuntu Tinkerer]

I performed a fresh install of Ubuntu 17.10 (wiped system partition) but kept my home partition and home folder from Ubuntu Unity 17.04. I've so far done minimal changes to my system besides from installing some apps.

The Ubuntu 17.10 Dock uses orange dots to indicate what apps are open and with how many instances. But changing the Gnome Shell theme doesn't change this color even if the theme changes the color orange everywhere else in the shell.

Take the highly popular Arc theme for instance (https://github.com/horst3180/arc-theme). Installing it will change the orange color that appears in the the alt+tab panel and the Gnome Overview. But the orange color will remain in the Dock, causing a slightly annoying inconsistency.

I think the original Gnome Dash to Dock extension respects the Gnome Shell's choice of color (https://micheleg.github.io/dash-to-dock/). Maybe it can be seen there from where the extension reads this crucial color code and then you can do the same in the Dock?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:17.10.7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-16.19-generic 4.13.4
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-16-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: ubuntu
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sat Oct 21 02:49:07 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-10-19 (1 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Release amd64 (20171018)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
Symptom: release-upgrade
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Ubuntu Tinkerer (rationaltree)]

Removed selected package as this bug report has nothing to do with it.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[claudio@ubuntu (claudio.ubuntu)]

You can change the dot colours with dconf.

Look in org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock with "dconf Editor", specifically the custom-theme-dot-border-color and custom-theme-running-dots-color both set to #e95420 (orange).

However, besides the dots it looks like we're stuck with orange in the window preview of the Dock (and also when alt-tabbing).

C.

[Ubuntu Tinkerer (rationaltree)]

Claudio, thanks for your guidance. I immediately made the changes with gsettings from the terminal. But I think you wrote wrong key names so I'll write the correct schema and key names in gsettings commands that can be directly executed to change the colors:

gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock custom-theme-running-dots-color "#5294e2"

gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock custom-theme-running-dots-border-color "#5294e2"

Also, we aren't stuck with the orange color in the alt+tab panel nor the Dock's window preview because both of these colors were changed for me when I installed the popular Arc Theme (see link in my bug report above).

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Try this:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1717456/comments/4

[Ufos92 (ufos92)]

oh thank god. This finally worked. Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) saved my day!

[Ufos92 (ufos92)]

This still affects current LTS! (18.04)

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1717456, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.