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ubuntulooks package

Progress bar text is hard to read when progress indicator is halfway through the character

Bug #29508 reported by Lakin Wecker on 2006-01-24

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	ubuntulooks (Ubuntu)	Won't Fix	Wishlist	Unassigned

Bug Description

When the progress indicator in a progress bar is half-way under a particular character, the character is half done in white and black, and is very hard to read. See attached screenshot.

(this is in dapper-flight-3 updated to today.)

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Lakin Wecker (lakin) wrote on 2006-01-24: Example

Example Edit (20.4 KiB, image/png)

Example

Daniel Holbach (dholbach) on 2006-01-24

Changed in gnome-themes:
assignee:	nobody → jdub

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Patrice Vetsel (vetsel-patrice) wrote on 2006-03-31: Re: [Human Theme] Progress bar text is hard to read when progress indicator is halfway through the character

Please test with last package.

Changed in ubuntu-artwork:
status:	Unconfirmed → Needs Info

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Lakin Wecker (lakin) wrote on 2006-04-14: With the latest package

With the latest package Edit (2.5 KiB, image/png)

This is a definite improvement, but having one character (which is tiny enough to begin with), that is half drawn in white and half drawn in black, is still hard to read.

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Lakin Wecker (lakin) wrote on 2006-04-14: With the latest packages

With the latest packages Edit (2.5 KiB, image/png)

Same thing, different character.

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Lakin Wecker (lakin) wrote on 2006-04-14: Re: [Human Theme] Progress bar text is hard to read when progress indicator is halfway through the character

Changing back to unconfirmed, as the request info has been provided.

Changed in ubuntu-artwork:
status:	Needs Info → Unconfirmed

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Matthew Gregg (mcg) wrote on 2006-10-24:

Progress bar screen shot Edit (20.4 KiB, image/png)

Same issue in Edgy.

Daniel Holbach (dholbach) on 2006-10-24

Changed in ubuntu-artwork:
assignee:	jdub → desktop-bugs

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Adriano Varoli Piazza (adrianovaroli) wrote on 2006-10-29:

I might add: It's worsened in Edgy: now _all_ the text in the progress bar is hard to read.

Daniel Holbach (dholbach) on 2006-12-22

Changed in ubuntulooks:
status:	Unconfirmed → Confirmed

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Bruce Cowan (bruce89-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2007-02-08:

In Feisty, it doesn't have the Edgy problem.

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casner (casner) wrote on 2007-02-10: Re: Progress bar text is impossible to read at any time

I started Ubuntu with Dapper. Last weekend I upgraded to Edgy using the Alternate CD and Internet updates after.

I can't read the progress bar in Synaptic at all in Edgy. There are light gray characters on a white background, and everything on the bar seems to crawl around.

I use default everything for the desktop, right from the installation. My machine is not new - 900 MHz Celeron with motherboard Intel 810 chipset.

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Magnus (koma-lysator) wrote on 2007-03-31:

#10

Hard to read text on progress bar in edgy Edit (19.9 KiB, image/png)

My edgy has the same problem.

But I get even more unreadable text because of (I think) the anti-aliasing on the font once the progress bar has advanced past the text.

See attached screenshot.

Sebastien Bacher (seb128) on 2008-11-19

Changed in ubuntulooks:
assignee:	desktop-bugs → nobody

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Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (andrewsomething) wrote on 2010-06-16:

#11

ubuntulooks has been depricated. It is no longer developed in Ubuntu or as an upstream project. It has been superseded by gtk2-engines-murrine since intrepid, and it has been removed from the archive in lucid. Due to this, I am closing this bug as "Won't Fix."