Unity Switcher highlight does not stand out enough
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ayatana Design |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Unity |
Incomplete
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
unity (Ubuntu) |
Incomplete
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
The light gray icon highlight in Unity's Switcher (Alt+Tab) does not visually contrast against the other icons enough, making it require extra effort to distinguish which icon is currently selected.
It now takes more time for me to visually scan for the currently highlighted icon than I would normally spend with the Switcher open.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: unity 4.16.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,
Date: Fri Sep 23 11:09:46 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-23 (0 days ago)
Changed in unity: | |
status: | New → Incomplete |
Changed in unity (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Incomplete |
tags: | added: needs-design |
I would recommend adding a different colour highlight border around the edge of the active one, and removing the colour border around all of the other ones, so the only one with a colour border is the active one. It's hard to tell from the attached screenshot, but for example Firefox will have a dark orange background and bright orange border.
Change it so the current active one has some colour border (perhaps light orange to go with the brown background), and all the other icons have no border (so Firefox will still have a dark orange background but no orange border).