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notify-osd package

Bubbles too opaque in Unity 2D

Bug #821719 reported by Hernando Torque
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Bug Description

Using Unity 2D and notify-osd 0.9.31-0ubuntu1, I find the notification bubbles to be way too opaque with the mouse pointer right over it. It's almost impossible to read or write anything below the blurred bubble.

Screenshot attached.

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Hernando Torque (htorque) wrote :
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Hernando Torque (htorque) wrote :
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Changed in notify-osd (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Hernando Torque (htorque)
summary: - Bubbles too opaque
+ Bubbles too opaque in Unity 2D
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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

I believe thats a metacity compositor draw back and less of a notify-osd bug. (in unity-2d session partial compositing of metacity is enabled)

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Hernando Torque (htorque) wrote :

Hm, so it can make the bubble transparent, but only a little bit? Sounds too weird to be true. :-)

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Mirco Müller (macslow) wrote :

I can't see a reason why it should be different under metacity. What I'm very sure of is that you have not moved the mouse all the way over the bubble, thus the proximity-fade feature didn't turn down the opacity fully yet.

See the two screenshots I made while running metacity. Against bright and dark windows I can read what's behind the faded bubble very easily... when I have moved the mouse completely over the bubble.

Marking it as invalid.

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Mirco Müller (macslow) wrote :
Changed in notify-osd (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Invalid
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Hernando Torque (htorque) wrote :

Ok, so the problem here seems to be that the proximity-based fading fails.

As I move my mouse pointer towards the bubble (no matter from which side), the bubble first fades away but then fades in again as I move the pointer closer to its center.

Changed in notify-osd (Ubuntu):
status: Invalid → Confirmed
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Hernando Torque (htorque) wrote :

I've done a little more testing with a A3 live USB system:

Notebook:
* Intel HD graphics 2000: affected.
* NVIDIA NVS 3100M (nouveau): affected.
* NVIDIA NVS 3100M (nvidia-current): affected.

PC:
* Intel HD graphics 3000: affected.

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Hernando Torque (htorque) wrote :

Good news, I'm no longer seeing this in up-to-date (almost beta-1) Oneiric.

Changed in notify-osd (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Invalid
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