Quicklists and tooltips sometimes lose their blur

Bug #977984 reported by Alan Morgan
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This bug affects 18 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Unity
Fix Released
High
Andrea Azzarone
5.0
Won't Fix
High
Andrea Azzarone
unity (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Andrea Azzarone
Precise
Won't Fix
High
Andrea Azzarone

Bug Description

Normally, quicklists and the labels of launcher icons that appear when hovering over the icons are dark. However, they are occasionally rendered as shown in my attached screenshot. This has happened five times in under two hours of heavy quicklist use. It is not visually appealing and loses clarity due to there possibly being text below.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: unity 5.8.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-22.35-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-22-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,vpswitch,snap,mousepoll,resize,place,move,wall,grid,regex,imgpng,session,gnomecompat,animation,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,workarounds,scale,expo,ezoom,unityshell]
Date: Tue Apr 10 20:43:12 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120328)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Alan Morgan (alanmorgan) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report. Do you use a full screen dash?

There is a video on https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/985851/+attachment/3094482/+files/New%20bug.webm showing the issue

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
importance: Undecided → High
summary: - Quicklists and launcher labels occasionally too translucent
+ Quicklists and launcher labels loose sometimes their backgrounds texture
summary: - Quicklists and launcher labels loose sometimes their backgrounds texture
+ Launcher - tooltips,list labels loose sometimes their backgrounds
+ texture
Changed in unity:
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → Confirmed
assignee: nobody → Gord Allott (gordallott)
Changed in unity:
milestone: none → 5.12.0
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Alan Morgan (alanmorgan) wrote : Re: Launcher - tooltips,list labels loose sometimes their backgrounds texture

I do use a full-screen dash.

Changed in unity:
milestone: 5.12.0 → 5.14.0
Alan Morgan (alanmorgan)
summary: - Launcher - tooltips,list labels loose sometimes their backgrounds
- texture
+ Launcher - tooltips,list labels sometimes lose their backgrounds texture
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Stéphane Guillou (stephane-guillou) wrote : Re: Launcher - tooltips,list labels sometimes lose their backgrounds texture

I confirm this on my netbook (Samsung N310).
It only occurs when the Dash is open and fullscreen.

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Simeon (simeon5) wrote :

I can confirm this. It only happens if Dash is fullscreen.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Hey Andrea, do you think you could have a look to this bug as well when you get some free time?

Changed in unity:
assignee: Gord Allott (gordallott) → Andrea Azzarone (andyrock)
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Andrea Azzarone (azzar1) wrote :

@Sebastien Yes :)

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Andrea Azzarone (andyrock)
Changed in unity (Ubuntu Precise):
assignee: nobody → Andrea Azzarone (andyrock)
summary: - Launcher - tooltips,list labels sometimes lose their backgrounds texture
+ Quicklists and tooltips sometimes lose their blur
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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Sounds related to bug 981548.

Changed in unity:
milestone: 5.14.0 → 5.16.0
Omer Akram (om26er)
Changed in unity:
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in unity:
milestone: 5.16.0 → 5.18.0
Changed in unity:
milestone: 5.18.0 → 7.0.0
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Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100) wrote :

Maybe there's some connection between these bugs and #934102 ?

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Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki) wrote :

Does this happen in Ubuntu 12.10 as well, or only in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?

Changed in unity:
status: Triaged → Incomplete
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Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki) wrote :

...and since the last duplicate is from before Ubuntu 12.04 LTS final release, are you still able to reproduce this on 12.04 LTS?

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Alan Morgan (alanmorgan) wrote :

I am not able to reproduce this in an up-to-date 12.04, or 12.10.

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Incomplete
Changed in unity (Ubuntu Precise):
status: Triaged → Incomplete
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Stéphane Guillou (stephane-guillou) wrote :

I am able to reproduce this same problem on my up-to-date Ubuntu 12.04 32 bits.

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
Changed in unity (Ubuntu Precise):
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
Changed in unity:
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
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Alan Morgan (alanmorgan) wrote :

I have begun experiencing it on an up-to-date 12.04 (64 bit), but not in 12.10.

Stephen M. Webb (bregma)
Changed in unity:
milestone: 7.0.0 → 7.0.1
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Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (fitojb) wrote :

Yeah, this seems Precise-specific. It isn't reproducible neither in Quantal nor Raring.

Changed in unity:
milestone: 7.0.1 → none
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
no longer affects: unity/6.0
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

not likely to see a precise SRU at this point, closing

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
Changed in unity (Ubuntu Precise):
status: Confirmed → Won't Fix
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