Unity panel should be transparent

Bug #1292208 reported by Tommy
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Unity
Opinion
Wishlist
Unassigned
unity (Ubuntu)
Opinion
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

This is not exactly a bug, but more of a wishlist entry. The top panel/global menu bar would look nicer if it was transparent by default. I always use the compiz settings manager to set Unity's panel opacity to 0, because it really does make a big aesthetic difference to the desktop. The fully-opaque, dark-grey menu bar just looks a bit last-decade. Also, when transitioning between the new lock screen (LightDM), or when opening the Unity Dash, the way the panel suddenly switches from being dark grey to transparent is pretty jarring. That's how I feel anyway. So making the panel transparent (not *completely* transparent though, you should still see the bar going across) would not only make LightDM and Ubuntu feel more like one entity, but it would look nicer/more modern, and the transitioning between the Unity Dash and the new lock screen would look more seamless and natural as well.

Just a suggestion. Thanks. ^^

Tommy (lodmot347)
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description: updated
description: updated
Tommy (lodmot347)
description: updated
description: updated
description: updated
description: updated
Tommy (lodmot347)
tags: added: panel
tags: added: transparency unity
Tommy (lodmot347)
affects: ubuntu → compiz (Ubuntu)
Tommy (lodmot347)
affects: compiz (Ubuntu) → unity (Ubuntu)
Adam Conrad (adconrad)
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
Changed in unity:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Will Cooke (willcooke)
Changed in unity:
status: New → Opinion
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Opinion
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