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Re: [Ayatana] semi-transparent indicator menus
As others have mentioned the transparency of the panel should be dynamic.
when a windows is maximized it should go back to opaque.
It could even be made transparent by default, similar to how the unity greeter (lightdm) looks
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> From: frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx
> Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 17:00:32 +0100
> To: mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> CC: ayatana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Ayatana] semi-transparent indicator menus
>
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 23:27, Matthew Paul Thomas
> <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
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> Which do you think is more important: for indicator menus to have the
> same style as other pull-down menus, or the same style as the Dash?
>
> a homogenous surface called Unity, preferrably transparency-enabled, so
> the Dash.
>
> The Dash partly solves this readability problem by using larger text
> whenever possible. Menus can't.
>
> I think the Dash and the Unity Launcher are handsome, because they form
> a see-through overlay interface above live content, kinda like a sheet
> of blurry glass.
> It's a quite comprehensible metaphor, only that the top-right-corner
> part of this metaphor is broken, i can't see through it.
>
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