Dash: No blur option should use an opaque or translucent lens

[Doug McMahon]

ATM it's transparent and generally unuseable

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: unity 4.10.2-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-9.14-generic 3.0.3
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-9-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,vpswitch,mousepoll,regex,imgpng,move,resize,gnomecompat,place,ezoom,session,animation,fade,cube,scale,rotate,unityshell]
Date: Tue Aug 30 09:35:37 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha i386 (20110826.1)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Doug McMahon (mc3man)]

This was fixed nicely in unity-4.16

[Doug McMahon (mc3man)]

The new 'fixed' no blur option in unity-0.5.10 is now tinted but transparent, again it can produce a distracting or unusable Dash

[Doug McMahon (mc3man)]

That's unity-5.10
bug that fixed & broke (depending on viewpoint I guess
Bug 941066

[Doug McMahon (mc3man)]

Not even really trying to make it look bad

[Hanine HAMZIOUI (hanynowsky)]

Well for me it looks bad!
I really would like to set the transparency of the unity panel as I can set it now when Dash is on No Blur. Yet I need to keep the dash look like it is under Active or Static blur.

[shane (shane-animail)]

Surely all this needs is a much darker tint? I would prefer opaque but at least a darker tint would be useable.

[bwat47 (bwat47)]

I really wish this would be fixed. The active blur performs horribly on intel cards pre sandybridge, no blur is unusable, and static blur is incredibly glitchy.