Sonata Unity icon low contrast

[larlin]

Binary package hint: unity

The unity Icon background generated for Sonata is almost the same as the icon it self. This makes the icon look bad and is hard to see.

Sonata version: 1.6.2.1-3build1
Unity version: 3.8.12-0ubuntu1

Description: Ubuntu 11.04
Release: 11.04

[larlin (larlin)]

Thanks for giving this some sort of activity but, I'm not sure what "opinion" is meant for here but to me it sounds like if some one says "this look bad".

This is not a opinion this is a stated fact the contrast between foreground colour and background colour is bad.

When you have it in the unity bar it looks mostly as a blue square. In all other icons the application icon is very clear and easy to distinguish from the background.

I have attached a new image of my current bar. Even crazy icons like EVE-Online have a very good contrast closest is that not great contrast of the gajim icon. But that still is significant better.

Look at the pictures this is a problem not just a opinion.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Please do state the reason before setting a bug to Opinion or confirmed

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

I can confirm the issue in Oneiric as well, Not sure though if the icon should adapt for Unity or unity should change something.

[larlin (larlin)]

I think it's most logical that unity change in some way. Especially as this icon is of a kind that is not that odd. If this problem effects all one colour icons this is a problem that should be tried to fix.

One possible solution would be to instead of using the average colour of the icon using a complement colour to the average colour. Don't know if this will look good but could be worth a shot. There is a few other ways to find colours that "fit" together maybe testing a few of them and see if any of them works better?

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Unity 6.0 in 12.10 now have the API to override the launcher background blend