Tooltips backgrounds are not refreshed (no active blur)

Bug #967112 reported by Sven Romeike
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Unity
Fix Released
Low
Daniel van Vugt
5.0
Fix Released
Low
Tim Penhey
unity (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Unassigned
Precise
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

[Test Case]
1) choose a solid black color for the Desktop Background to get a better effect
2) open some program that has a good contrast to the desktop background
3) mouseover any of the unity icons in the launcher to show the tooltip
4) while the tooltip is shown press Super+ALT+D to show the Desktop
   -> Verify that the background of the tooltip 'matches' the one on the desktop

[Regression Potential]
Visual regressions, shell drawing problems. Big change, many regression potentials.

Original description:

When A Unity Launcher Tooltip is shown and you press STRG+ALT+D to show the Desktop the half-transparent Background of the Tooltip does not update. Either it doesnt use true transparency or this is a bug.

to reproduce this use the following steps:

1) choose a dark wallpaper or solid black color for the Desktop Background to get a better effect

2) open some program that has a good contrast to the desktop background (website, filemanager or office programm if a dark wallpaper is set

3) mouseover any of the unity icons in the launcher to show the tooltip

4) while the tooltip is shown press STRG+ALT+D to show the Desktop

You will see that the Background of the tooltip is not updated to match the Desktop. I don't know if this is intended but it may be a bug if this was supposed to be true transparency in Unity 3D

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: unity 5.8.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-20.33-generic 3.2.12
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-20-generic x86_64
.tmp.unity.support.test.0:

ApportVersion: 1.95-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,vpswitch,snap,mousepoll,resize,place,move,wall,grid,regex,imgpng,session,gnomecompat,animation,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,workarounds,scale,expo,ezoom,unityshell]
CompositorRunning: compiz
Date: Wed Mar 28 14:45:27 2012
DistUpgraded: 2012-03-14 16:18:51,803 DEBUG enabling apt cron job
DistroCodename: precise
DistroVariant: ubuntu
GraphicsCard: NVIDIA Corporation G92 [GeForce 9800 GTX] [10de:0612] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
MachineType: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO.,LTD MS-7395
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=de:en
 TERM=xterm
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-20-generic root=UUID=56d23492-5b0c-4d10-9428-c7f00aa1231f ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-03-14 (13 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 11/06/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: V1.4
dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: MS-7395
dmi.board.vendor: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO.,LTD
dmi.board.version: 1.0
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO.,LTD
dmi.chassis.version: 1.0
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dmi.product.name: MS-7395
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO.,LTD
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.7.2-0ubuntu4
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs 20090808ubuntu35
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.32-1ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 8.0.2-0ubuntu2
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 8.0.2-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.11.4-0ubuntu7
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.7.0-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.99~git20111219.aacbd629-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.17.0-1ubuntu4
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20111201+b5534a1-1build2

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Sven Romeike (lun4tic) wrote :
summary: - Unity Tooltip Background color does not update on minimize
+ Launcher - tooltips' background not refresh on show desktop
summary: - Launcher - tooltips' background not refresh on show desktop
+ Launcher - tooltips' background not refresh on effects (show desktop,
+ workspace previews, )
summary: Launcher - tooltips' background not refresh on effects (show desktop,
- workspace previews, )
+ workspace previews, ...)
summary: - Launcher - tooltips' background not refresh on effects (show desktop,
+ Launcher - tooltips' background not refreshed on effects (show desktop,
workspace previews, ...)
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Low
Changed in unity:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Low
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote : Re: Launcher - tooltips' background not refreshed on effects (show desktop, workspace previews, ...)

The issue is a bit similar to bug #873387, fixing the other one would fix this one as well

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

I'm making this bug just about tooltips. Bug 873387 can be about quicklists.

summary: - Launcher - tooltips' background not refreshed on effects (show desktop,
- workspace previews, ...)
+ Tooltips backgrounds are not refreshed (no active blur)
Changed in unity:
assignee: nobody → Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)
status: Triaged → In Progress
Changed in unity:
milestone: none → 6.0
Revision history for this message
Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Fix committed into lp:unity at revision 2470

Changed in unity:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Changed in unity:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :
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This bug was fixed in the package unity - 6.0.0-0ubuntu1

---------------
unity (6.0.0-0ubuntu1) quantal-proposed; urgency=low

  [ Didier Roche ]
  * debian/rules, debian/control, debian/unity-autopilot.install:
    - install new unity-autopilot package, containing autopilot bindings and
      test for Unity
    - add some python build-dep for executing setup.py
    - use dh_python2 and add some python:Depends dep for automatic python
      version detection
  * debian/control:
    - remove gnome-desktop dependency: not needed upstream anymore
    - unity Breaks older lenses due to path change
    - remove libgdu in build-dep
  * debian/libunity-core-6.0-5.install, debian/libunity-core-6.0-dev.install,
    debian/control:
    - version bump in libunity-core, change soname

  [ Matthieu Baerts (matttbe) ]
  * Update apport hook for python3 ; thanks to Edward Donovan (LP: #1013171)

  [ Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak ]
  * New upstream release.
    - compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in get_current_slide() from
      unity::BGHash::OnSlideshowTransition() (LP: #889625)
    - Unity is visible on top of fullscreen apps (LP: #734908)
    - App icon on the Unity Launcher lost track of running instance
      (LP: #772063)
    - unity crashed with NameError in reset_unity_compiz_profile(): global
      name 'GError' is not defined (LP: #778470)
    - compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in CompWindow::id() from getPaintMask()
      [compizminimizedwindowhandler.h] from unity::UnityWindow::glPaint()
      (LP: #851982)
    - HUD - Formatting of text in the auto-complete is wrong (LP: #939436)
    - [regression] Launcher is silent to screen reader users (LP: #949448)
    - still some accent issues with unity/nux (LP: #950740)
    - [regression] [precise] 3D apps run much slower under Unity (LP: #987304)
    - No launcher icon or Alt+Tab entry for Gimp windows (LP: #995916)
    - Locked smuxi launcher icon does not indicate smuxi running status
      (LP: #999820)
    - When number of workspaces is set to 1, the Spread no longer works
      (LP: #996604)
    - Much slower OpenGL frame rates with unityshell loaded, than plain compiz
      (LP: #988079)
    - Port to libudisks2 (LP: #1012000)
    - Desktop, Launcher and menu bar still visible when screen locked
      (LP: #886605)
    - Searching in the HUD freezes unity (LP: #1016239)
    - Dragged icons rendered under dash (LP: #1021541)
    - Regression in Launcher keyboard navigation (with Alt+F1) (LP: #1021549)
    - Unity dash is is much slower/laggy after revision 2469. (LP: #1021665)
    - Dash and Launcher - As soon as a user starts dragging a file from the
      Dash, there is a 'flicker' before the Launcher icons that are valid drop
      receptacles re-saturate (LP: #863230)
    - Dash - when a file is dragged from the Dash (Dash home, file lens, or
      music lens) and dropped on a Launcher icon, the Dash should
      automatically close (LP: #865168)
    - Refreshing active blur makes the dash painfully slow (LP: #874230)
    - Open dash, press Alt+f1 - dash remains open (LP: #919209)
    - application reopens itself when last instance is closed from
      windows/application switcher (LP: #926406)
    - HUD D...

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Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Fix committed into lp:unity/5.0 at revision 2394

description: updated
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Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar) wrote : Please test proposed package

Hello Sven, or anyone else affected,

Accepted unity into precise-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/5.16.0-0ubuntu1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please change the bug tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not, change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Changed in unity (Ubuntu Precise):
status: New → Fix Committed
tags: added: verification-needed
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Sven Romeike (lun4tic) wrote :

Just for the record and other testers:

Its supposed to be CTRL+SUPER+D to show the desktop if i recall correctly. If anyone can edit this please do.
I must have messed that up and i even wrote the german "STRG" instead of CTRL ...

thx for pushing the fix to proposed :-)

Omer Akram (om26er)
description: updated
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jhfhlkjlj (fdsuufijjejejejej-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Works wonderfully. No regressions seen, the behavior is spot-on now.

tags: added: verification-done
removed: verification-needed
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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Unfortunately not so good in quantal --> bug 1036572

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 5.16.0-0ubuntu1

---------------
unity (5.16.0-0ubuntu1) precise-proposed; urgency=low

  [ Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak ]
  * debian/control:
    - Update libgeis-dev and libgrail-dev dependencies in debian/control
  * New upstream release.
    - launcher is not refreshed after user session switch (LP: #1016430)
    - Dragging windows around is slow/sluggish/laggy when multiple monitors
      are enabled (LP: #874619)
    - Dragging icons to reorder -away from launcher causes the dragged icon
      image edges to fade away(cut off) (LP: #1026247)
    - Arrow for indicating lenses points empty space on alt+F2 (LP: #998752)
    - Tooltips backgrounds are not refreshed (no active blur) (LP: #967112)
    - [regression] Unity panel transparency (active blur) not updating properly
      (LP: #865006)
    - [Regression] Hideous low-res icon when using the HUD with autohide
      enabled. (LP: #1035951)
    - Launcher dragged icon is not redrawn when the mouse pointer is not moved
      (LP: #1032700)
    - Black background around after dash is restored (LP: #992516)
    - Refreshing active blur makes the dash painfully slow (LP: #874230)
    - [SRU regression] alt-grave not switching to next window unless 'grave'
      pressed twice (LP: #1035668)
    - [SRU Regression] Unity 5.14 + Nux 2.14: Launcher tooltips are
      incomplete/missing (LP: #1034164)
    - [nvidia] unity crashed in
      nux::GraphicsEngine::QRP_GLSL_1Tex (glDrawArrays) (LP: #1031554)
    - compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in
      unity::ui::EdgeBarrierController::Impl::OnPointerBarrierEvent()
      (LP: #1020075)
    - Much slower OpenGL frame rates with unityshell loaded, than plain compiz
      (LP: #988079)
    - Compiz won't start if "unredirect fullscreen windows" is enabled
      (LP: #980663)
    - [regression] Unity launcher on-screen corruption on resume from suspend
      with nVidia proprietary driver (LP: #915265)
    - Desktop, Launcher and menu bar still visible when screen locked
      (LP: #886605)
    - Unity is visible on top of fullscreen apps (LP: #734908)
    - [nvidia] compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in
      nux::BasePainter::PaintBackground (LP: #982626)
    - Update dependency on the renamed libgeis

  [ Didier Roche ]
  * debian/control:
    - build-dep on latest nux as libgeis-dev and libutouch-geis-dev are
      conflicting (LP: #1047385)
 -- Lukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak <email address hidden> Tue, 11 Sep 2012 10:53:17 +0200

Changed in unity (Ubuntu Precise):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Chris Halse Rogers (raof) wrote : Update Released

The verification of this Stable Release Update has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regresssions.

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