UIFe - Launcher - The background of the BFB, Workspace Switcher, Lens, and Trash launcher icons tiles needs to use the average background colour of the wallpaper

There is an implementation of this in Unity trunk now. The implementation is rather simple (basically uses transparency + colored launcher underneath) so is a good candidate for refinement in future releases. These will of course make more sense as additional bugs

Doc Team wasn't subscribed to this bug. My instinct reaction (before I saw that it was initially reported 2 weeks ago) was:

"How many UI changes are the Unity Team going to make well after UI freeze?"

This might look bad with certain wallpapers, right? If so, then this doesn't seem a clear win if it causes regressions.

This will require updating screenshots which will break Documentation Freeze (which we'll be entering by this weekend).

The color issue has already been resolved by the prior dash work. This simply extends the background color over the launcher as originally intended. There should not be a real regression risk due to that.

Ok, specifically I was asking about whether the problem with bug 824916 would be experienced here too.

That bug has been "fixed" to the satisfaction of the design team. The same problem wont occur here for a multitude of reasons, but the simplest is that the launcher simply doesn't have any text that doesn't have a solid background. The tiles all have solid colors too. This is purely cosmetic.

Ok, I'll go ahead and give this a +1 from the Docs Team, but we'll have to break documentation freeze to update the screenshots. So far, the translations haven't yet included localized screenshots so the impact is workable.

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 4.16.0-0ubuntu1

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unity (4.16.0-0ubuntu1) oneiric; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
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      (LP: #765375)
    - F10 doesn't start keyboard navigation to the panel (LP: #839628)
    - Change on the at-spi accessibility-toolkit can affect also Unity
      (LP: #844927)
    - compiz crashed with SIGSEGV when a lens is shutting down (LP: #848675)
    - [UIFe] Radiance panel icons are unreadable and ugly when panel goes
      transparent with Dash (LP: #828862)
    - window switcher stuck (not only, but can be triggered with Onboard)
      (LP: #832033)
    - Window titlebar is click through after raising a minimized window
      (LP: #840285)
    - Alt+Shift+` does not work in symmetry with Alt+` (LP: #843250)
    - UIFe: Alt-Tab: Update layout behavior to make previews larger and
      outline active preview (LP: #847944)
    - windows clipped on resize (LP: #848962)
    - Alt-tab - Add orange border to selected window in alt-tab window spread
      (LP: #838114)
    - Launcher - the direction the Launcher is scrolled with the mouse wheel
      is inverted (LP: #839703)
    - Launcher - the rendering of the BFB and Lens squircle does not match the
      design (LP: #838708)
    - Alt-Tab - In the app window spread, all windows should have the same
      height, only the width should vary (LP: #838110)
    - Launcher - the background of the Launcher should be tinted using the
      average colour of the wallpaper (LP: #850068)
    - Alt-tab - It is currently very difficult to see pips in the left of the
      app icon for the currently selected app (LP: #838134)
    - Launcher - Auto scroll missing from the top of the Launcher
      (LP: #838744)
    - Scope searches blocks the lens (LP: #850816)
    - Shortcuts SUPER+1...9 doesn’t work until opening a window (LP: #768076)
    - Dash closes prematurely when dragging apps into the launcher
      (LP: #773892)
    - Dash - As soon as a user starts dragging a .png file from the Dash, the
      file icon turns into a grey question mark (LP: #764447)
    - Dash shows an empty icon for some applications. (LP: #830887)
    - Windows are click through after restore from minimize (LP: #834034)
    - Dash - No keyboard shortcuts for switching lenses (LP: #842086)
    - Dash search for files states "two more results" but doesn't display them
      (LP: #840005)
    - <meta>+<shift>+<launcher #> to start a new instance of a program doesn't
      work anymore (LP: #842977)
    - Alt-tab - Cross interactions between Alt-tab and Dash are broken
      (LP: #844021)
    - UIFe: Dash - Shape and positioning of most of the elements in the Dash
      need adjustment (Part 2) (LP: #844889)
    - Alt-Tab - make pause to spread default alt-tab behaviour. Upgrade
      existing installs as well. (LP: #838075)
    - Do not install unity-preference (LP: #847599)
    - Update unity --distro to latest plugins installed (LP: #847799)
    - off by one error in count of additional results in a category
      (LP: #848218)
    - UIFe - Launcher - The background of the BFB, Workspace Switcher, Lens,
    ...

Closing this bug, however this item requires some further finesse so a new bug has been opened, see bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/865239

Unsubscribing ~ubuntu-release. This was an FFe for last cycle that still has open Ubuntu tasks.