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ubuntu-themes package

Speaker icons differences too small

Bug #1478025 reported by Michał Sawicz on 2015-07-24

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This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	ubuntu-themes (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	High	Matthieu James

Bug Description

The icon theme got a nice update that made them all much lighter (as in weight), but also resulted in some of them being less readable, especially in a bright environment (aka. very often when you use a phone outside).

See the attached image that's a combination of high volume, low volume and muted. The stroke through the muted speaker is very light, almost a one-pixel stroke on the Aquaris E4.5 phone, where the icons are displayed at 26x26 pixels. The volume indication (the two arches on the right of the speaker) seems unnecessary when muted, too, and just add confusion.

In the low-volume case the arches seem equally unnecessary, since apart from spotting the arches you need to compare their colour to see "how much" of the indication is active vs. not. Could we not lose the inactive arches altogether?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: suru-icon-theme 14.04+15.04.20150707-0ubuntu1
Uname: Linux 3.4.67 armv7l
ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1.1
Architecture: armhf
Date: Fri Jul 24 15:38:03 2015
Dependencies:
hicolor-icon-theme 0.14-0ubuntu1 [origin: unknown]
ubuntu-mobile-icons 14.04+15.04.20150707-0ubuntu1
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-07-23 (1 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.04 - armhf (20150723-020304)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: ubuntu-themes
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Related branches

lp:~tiheum/ubuntu-themes/bug-sprint-082015

Merged into lp:ubuntu-themes at revision 447

Matthieu James (community): Approve on 2015-08-13

Jouni Helminen (community): Approve on 2015-08-11

lp:ubuntu/wily-proposed/ubuntu-themes

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Michał Sawicz (saviq) wrote on 2015-07-24:

#1

speakers.png Edit (21.9 KiB, image/png)
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (356 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
SystemImageInfo.txt Edit (245 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2015-07-24:

#2

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

Changed in ubuntu-themes (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e) on 2015-08-02

Changed in ubuntu-themes (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → High

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Matthieu James (tiheum) wrote on 2015-08-04:

#3

Actually, the problem of legibility of these icons on the BQ is rather due to the low screen resolution and the fact we use scalable icons instead of pixel-perfect icons specifically designed for this size.
Regarding your proposal, I have spoken with the visual design team and we are not keen to remove to arches when the volume is low, because the speaker alone would look very unbalanced compared to the other indicators and the spacing between the volume and the battery indicator would be too big.
However, for more clarity, we will updated the 'volume zero' indicator to a white speaker with a cross (instead of the actual speaker with arches in 50% opacity).

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Matthieu James (tiheum) wrote on 2015-08-05:

#4

Please note also that I added two new icons to the theme: volume-min and volume-max.
They should be used along with the volume sliders (in the sound indicator menu and the System Settings sound menu) in place of the actual icons. The volume-max icon is similar to the audio-volume-high indicator but the volume-min icon shows only the speaker without the arches.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2015-08-14:

#5

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-themes - 14.04+15.10.20150813-0ubuntu1

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ubuntu-themes (14.04+15.10.20150813-0ubuntu1) wily; urgency=medium

[ CI Train Bot ]
* New rebuild forced.

  [ Matthieu James ]
  * This update include a few bug fixes that we chased during our design
    team bug sprint in August 2015: essentially a bunch of new mono
    icons and updated existing designs. (LP: #1367137, #1478025,
    #1294251, #1424819, #1431876)

-- CI Train Bot <email address hidden> Thu, 13 Aug 2015 15:06:02 +0000

Changed in ubuntu-themes (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → Fix Released

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