[Icons] X-Ubuntu-Splash-Color=#ffffff yields #f5f5f5

[Michael Terry]

I tried using a white-background app icon with a white-background splash color, but they didn't render the same. I took a screenshot and discovered that unity8 was rendering a white splash (#ffffff) as #f5f5f5.

Switching my app icon to use that same off white as its background fixed the visual glitch. But why does unity8 do that?

[Albert Astals Cid (aacid)]

We're doing the same the SDK is doing, see MainViewStyle.qml that is a "copy" of MainViewStyle.qml of the Ambience theme (hurray not). There there is a Image of background_paper.png on top of the color, if you open background_paper.png you'll see it's basically adding some alpha, so it is "by design" that the color you see is not the one you specified.

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

Shouldn't the icon be below that paper background then?

I feel like from the app designer point of view, if they use #fff in both the "inputs" to Ubuntu Touch (X-Ubuntu-Splash-Color= and Icon=), when Ubuntu Touch puts the two together, they should look the same. Maybe they can be "papered over", but if so, both should be papered over.

[Albert Astals Cid (aacid)]

To be honest i'm undecided too.

I agree with you it's weird that the developer says "use this color" and we show a different one.

On the other hand it's the same case than in the MainView of the SDK is doing so it makes sense that if people are using a backgroundColor in their MainView they can use the same color in the splash and actually get the same color in the splash than in the MainView.

I agree it's weird that if you use the same color on the icon than in the splash background it is weird it looks different in the icon than in the background, but it on the other hand the icon is one of the things people are usually very strict about, so modifying the colors of people's icons is also not the best of the ideas :/

So basically we need some decision on wheter we should either:
 * Not change the background color specified by the developer with "papering" (and thus not matching what the SDK MainView does)
  * It's ok changing the colors of the icon of the application

[Albert Astals Cid (aacid)]

unity8 waiting for design -> incomplete

[Jouni Helminen (jounihelminen)]

default background colour changed to white with Tim Peeters

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package unity8 - 8.11+16.04.20151104-0ubuntu1

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unity8 (8.11+16.04.20151104-0ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium

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 -- Michał Sawicz <email address hidden> Wed, 04 Nov 2015 14:58:41 +0000