Unity

Launcher and Panel should have blur option

Bug #756929 reported by 3Dman on 2011-04-10

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #891575: Launcher - launcher should have blurred background all the time. Edit Remove

This bug affects 5 people

	Status	Importance	Assigned to
Ayatana Design	New	Undecided	Unassigned
Unity	Incomplete	Wishlist	Unassigned
unity (Ubuntu)	Incomplete	Wishlist	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: unity

The launcher and Panel (when transparent) should have option to enable blur like in Dash because it would look more consistent in full screen Dash with blur enabled.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: unity 3.8.4-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.41-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
.proc.driver.nvidia.gpus.0: Error: [Errno 21] Is a directory: '/proc/driver/nvidia/gpus/0'
.proc.driver.nvidia.registry: Binary: ""
.proc.driver.nvidia.version:
NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 270.30 Fri Feb 25 14:34:55 PST 2011
GCC version: gcc version 4.5.2 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.5.2-8ubuntu1)
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,vpswitch,resize,mousepoll,imgpng,snap,regex,wall,move,place,gnomecompat,grid,unitymtgrabhandles,animation,session,workarounds,expo,ezoom,staticswitcher,fade,scale,unityshell,scaleaddon]
CompositorRunning: compiz
Date: Mon Apr 11 00:27:07 2011
DistUpgraded: Log time: 2011-03-01 19:47:15.345411
DistroCodename: natty
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus: nvidia-current, 270.30, 2.6.38-8-generic, x86_64: installed
GraphicsCard:
nVidia Corporation G92 [GeForce GTS 250] [10de:0615] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device [1458:34c7]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64 (20110202)
InstallationMedia_: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64 (20110202)
InstallationMedia__: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64 (20110202)
JockeyStatus: xorg:nvidia_current - NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (Proprietary, Enabled, In use)
MachineType: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. EP45T-UD3R
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic root=UUID=86253fdb-4d22-4742-8f71-635d5e1fa8b4 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
ProcVersionSignature_: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.41-generic 2.6.38.2
ProcVersionSignature__: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.41-generic 2.6.38.2
Renderer: Unknown
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-03-26 (15 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 02/11/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
dmi.bios.version: F8
dmi.board.name: EP45T-UD3R
dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.board.version: x.x
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAwardSoftwareInternational,Inc.:bvrF8:bd02/11/2010:svnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:pnEP45T-UD3R:pvr:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnEP45T-UD3R:rvrx.x:cvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: EP45T-UD3R
dmi.sys.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.4+bzr20110407-0ubuntu2
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs 20090808ubuntu11
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.23-1ubuntu6
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 7.10.1-0ubuntu3
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.10.1-0ubuntu3
version.nvidia-graphics-drivers: nvidia-graphics-drivers N/A
version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+4ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.0-0ubuntu4
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.14.0-4ubuntu6
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110107+b795ca6e-0ubuntu6

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3Dman (3dman) wrote on 2011-04-10:

.proc.driver.nvidia.params.txt Edit (455 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
BootDmesg.txt Edit (59.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurrentDmesg.txt Edit (4.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (5.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GconfCompiz.txt Edit (36.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GlConf.txt Edit (1.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lspci.txt Edit (15.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lsusb.txt Edit (636 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfo.txt Edit (3.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcInterrupts.txt Edit (2.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcModules.txt Edit (2.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevDb.txt Edit (119.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevLog.txt Edit (255.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UnitySupportTest.txt Edit (588 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLog.txt Edit (18.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLogOld.txt Edit (10.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Xrandr.txt Edit (8.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
monitors.xml.txt Edit (991 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
nvidia-settings.txt Edit (29.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
peripherals.txt Edit (1.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
xdpyinfo.txt Edit (22.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
xinput.txt Edit (680 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl) wrote on 2011-04-11: Re: [Bug 756929] Re: Launcher and Panel should have blur option

status confirmed

Mark

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks) on 2011-04-11

Changed in unity:
status:	New → Confirmed

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Adam Łyskawa (a-lyskawa) wrote on 2011-05-25:

There is an option "static-blur" but it does nothing.

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DFOXpro (dfoxpro) wrote on 2012-04-08:

Compiz offer an option to blur transparent objects like docks or "any"... for compiz Unity Launcher is a Dock but the blur effect in unity (launcher, panel) is broken.
Also if you edit the unity.css theme to transparent colors the blur still fails.

Unity version: updated ppa:unity-team/ppa
Ubuntu version: updated 12.04
Graphics: Ati 4250 with Catalys updated

Sebastien Bacher (seb128) on 2012-04-23

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist
Changed in unity:
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist
status:	Confirmed → Incomplete
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → Incomplete