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[anthropornis <anthropornis@xxxxxxxxx>]

True, I was not looking at an image, I was trying to imagine based on 
the text in an email. However, in an image that was attached to a 
subsequent reply from Owas Lone, the Dash looks like it's going in the 
right direction, but for my /personal/ tastes, the desktop behind it is 
still too intrusive in that screenshot. If you run multiple Conky 
windows like I do, I'm thinking that would be even more intrusive.

I understand that a certain group of you felt that the Dash looked a 
certain way after awhile. I'm just requesting that you give those 
outside of your group options to make similar decisions, for ourselves, 
on our own machines. Let me keep the current dark coloration if I prefer 
it (or heck, make it bright opaque pink, if I'm into that sort of 
thing). Regardless of what the cool kids like, I can't grok the appeal 
of a transparent Dash anymore than I understand the appeal of a 
transparent terminal.

I'm not assuming these options are not in the cards, just saying that 
some of us would indeed appreciate them :)  No doubt you also get bored 
with a given wallpaper after awhile, and thankfully we have the option 
of /changing/ the wallpaper; same principle.

As far as white wallpapers go, I was partial to the red leaves on a 
foggy day on the Thames that was /included/ in a previous Ubuntu release 
(I forget which release); to me that was borderline white. Then 
sometimes I like to take a smaller transparent image (for example, like 
this <http://i.imgur.com/T4rgJ.jpg>) and center it on an actual white 
"seamless" background. Please don't judge me for using "worrying" white ;)

In the those white/light background cases I don't use the desktop as a 
folder, since (unless I am missing something) I have no control over 
desktop text coloration independent of other text coloration, and I 
generally prefer to keep the Ambiance theme. Decoupling the panel and 
desktop coloration options is something I would have prioritized ahead 
of making the Dash take on a wash, since that issue predates the Unity Dash.


Otto Greenslade wrote:
> Hi. Did you look at the image? I don't think you can say it looks like 
> your desktop. After living with it for a while, the black-tinted dash 
> was felt to be somewhat lifeless and on Unity 2D previously without 
> the aid of blurring a bit like a blackboard. This just helps to make 
> it appear a little more integrated, more light-weight / less jarring.
<snip>
>     Hi. The dash will compensate for very light and very dark
>     wallpapers, adjusting the wash accordingly (white is
>     darkened/black is lightened - anyway hopefully nobody actually
>     uses a white wallpaper, that would be a bit worrying!). When we
>     tested our current system, it was at least 95% successful on a
>     very broad spectrum of wallpapers and we have been looking at how
>     to improve the final 5%.