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[Omar B. <estelar57@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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 
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> 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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