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indicator-applet package

Wrong background colour for messaging icon

Bug #334490 reported by Chris Coulson on 2009-02-25

This bug affects 5 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Indicator Applet	Fix Released	Medium	Unassigned	Indicator Applet 0.1.2
	indicator-applet (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Low	Ted Gould

Bug Description

Binary package hint: indicator-applet

I use a theme that is a mixture of dark and light colours (the panel and menu's being dark, but the window contents being light). With this theme, the messaging indicator has the wrong background colour (it looks the same as a lighter colour used in the Nautilus window shown in my first screenshot).

At first glance, it seems that the Human theme and other dark themes don't exhibit this problem. However, as you can see from my other 2 screenshots with the Human theme and Dark room (which is a consistently dark theme), on closer inspection it is apparent that the colour is also incorrect with these themes (it just doesn't stand out as much).

If I change the panel background to a solid colour or an image, then the background of the messaging indicator looks ok. It is only wrong when I set the panel background to use the system theme.

See original description

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lp:~indicator-applet-developers/indicator-applet/ubuntu

Merged into lp:~ubuntu-desktop/indicator-applet/ubuntu at revision 287

Ken VanDine: Pending requested 2011-04-14

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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote on 2009-02-25:

Screenshot.png Edit (638.0 KiB, image/png)

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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote on 2009-02-25:

Screenshot-1.png Edit (752.2 KiB, image/png)

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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote on 2009-02-25:

Screenshot-2.png Edit (651.2 KiB, image/png)

Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) on 2009-03-03

description:

updated

Sebastien Bacher (seb128) on 2009-03-05

Changed in indicator-applet:
importance:	Undecided → Low

Rick Spencer (rick-rickspencer3) on 2009-03-10

Changed in indicator-applet:
assignee:	nobody → ted-gould

Ted Gould (ted) on 2009-03-12

Changed in indicator-applet:
milestone:	none → 0.1.2
status:	New → Fix Committed
importance:	Undecided → Medium

Ted Gould (ted) on 2009-03-16

Changed in indicator-applet:
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2009-03-16:

This bug was fixed in the package indicator-applet - 0.1.2-0ubuntu1

---------------
indicator-applet (0.1.2-0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * New upstream version
    * Removes duplicate prototypes (LP: #338885)
    * Fixes background color to match them on dark themes when
      the panel color is not set (LP: #334490)
    * Removing the handle and replacing it with the ability to
      right click on the applet to get a panel menu (LP: #339818)
    * Various build fixes

-- Ted Gould <email address hidden> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 08:58:20 -0500

Changed in indicator-applet:
status:	New → Fix Released

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Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3) wrote on 2009-03-18:

This is not fixed if yo use a panel with a background. do you need a screenshot?

Changed in indicator-applet:
status:	Fix Released → Confirmed

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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote on 2009-03-18:

Yes please - it works fine when I manually choose a panel background here (see my original bug description).

Changed in indicator-applet (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → Incomplete

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Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3) wrote on 2009-03-18: Re: [Bug 334490] Re: Wrong background colour for messaging icon

image.png Edit (12.1 KiB, image/png; name="image.png")

As you can see I've lots of applets, and it's the only one which has a
'strange' background: the version I have installed is 0.1.3-0ubuntu1

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Ted Gould (ted) wrote on 2009-03-18:

On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 10:50 +0000, Nicolò Chieffo wrote:
> As you can see I've lots of applets, and it's the only one which has a
> 'strange' background: the version I have installed is 0.1.3-0ubuntu1

Uhm, wow. I really can't recreate this... it works as expected on my
system. The change to the upstream is that we basically are now
stealing the settings from the fast-user-switch-applet because it turns
out themes have put special exceptions in for it to make it work well
with the panel. So there is no reason we shouldn't match that on the
panel. And it's also in your screenshot, looking different...

I guess the next step would be to see which GTK+ theme you're using to
see if we've missed the special casing in some place there. Also, does
this behavior continue on other themes in your system?

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Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3) wrote on 2009-03-18:

panel.rc Edit (2.4 KiB, application/octet-stream; name="panel.rc")

Another way to trigger this is to select the Clearlooks theme.
I'm attaching the panel.rc file of my theme

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gsmx (gsmx) wrote on 2009-03-29:

#10

indicator-applet.png Edit (4.2 KiB, image/png)

When you select the Dust Sand Theme in jaunty, the same thing happens as in the screenshot of Nicolò Chieffo. That's an easy way to recreate the bug.

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Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3) wrote on 2009-03-30:

#11

I think it's the clearlooks way to present an applet like that, which
is displayed as a button in murrine themes.

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Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3) wrote on 2009-04-05:

#12

Ted Gould: can you tell me if I'm wrong, when I say that the "problem"
(maybe it's intended as a feature) is in clearlooks and not in
indicator-applet?

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Marius Gedminas (mgedmin) wrote on 2009-04-05:

#13

indicator-applet next to the fast user switcher; clearlooks theme Edit (3.3 KiB, image/png)

Well, the fuse-applet looks fine here, but the indicator applet doesn't. I use the Clearlooks theme as well, and the gnome panel is told to use the system theme.

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Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3) wrote on 2009-04-06:

#14

the fusa-applet has not the same design as the indicator applet. The
indicator applet is a button, and butons in clearlooks are rendered in
the way you've posted.

Maybe we can ask why the indicator applet is a button, since it's the only one.

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Ted Gould (ted) wrote on 2009-04-06:

#15

On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 12:44 +0000, Nicolò Chieffo wrote:
> Ted Gould: can you tell me if I'm wrong, when I say that the "problem"
> (maybe it's intended as a feature) is in clearlooks and not in
> indicator-applet?

I think so, but I'm not 100%. It seems that it only happens with
Clearlooks, but I can't figure out why Clearlooks is viewing
indicator-applet and fast-user-switch-user differently, as
indicator-applet is lying and telling the theme engine that it's FUSA
now... so, in a nutshell, I think so, but I have no proof. It's
annoying.

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Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3) wrote on 2009-04-06:

#16

fusa_and_indicator.png Edit (10.4 KiB, image/png; name="fusa_and_indicator.png")

In my murrine setup, they are completely different.
This means that currently the 'trick' to show indicator in the same
way as fusa does not work.
I'm attaching a screenshot.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2009-04-08:

#17

This bug was fixed in the package indicator-applet - 0.1.5-0ubuntu1

---------------
indicator-applet (0.1.5-0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * debian/control: Switching libindicate0 to libindicate1 to express
    the fact that the binary compatibility is broken.
  * debian/libindicate0.install changed to debian/libindicate1.install
  * New upstream version:
    * Adds new API for detecting interests of various listeners. Implemented
      on both client and server side. (LP: #353112)
    * Makes it so that all objects down to the menu now use the gtkstyle
      naming from FUSA to ensure that they all pick up the theme hacks that
      are set for FUSA. (LP: #334490)
    * Explicitly sets the about window's window icon. (LP: #356437)

-- Ted Gould <email address hidden> Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:09:33 -0500

Changed in indicator-applet (Ubuntu):
status:	Incomplete → Fix Released

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josephk (josephk-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2009-08-06:

#18

Schermata.png Edit (97.9 KiB, image/png)

This bug is NOT FIXED in jaunty lpia indicator applet version 0.1.6-0ubuntu1 as you can see in the attachment
please, commit bug fixes upstream if you don't

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Pierre Dennert (schokobescher) wrote on 2010-06-06:

#19

It returned as is Lucid Lynx (Version 0.3.7 of the applet)

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