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> Glow-Effect for me is not enough to directly identify as open!
We could add some shine or gold...
> Desaturate and darken are my favourite prospects: Look at this ...
> Current,     desaturate75,     desaturate100,     darken75,     same with
backgroundcolor of MenuBar, no transparency and ActiveOnBacklight
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All de give sense of freshness, light, breath....imagine when no app is
open, the launcher looks very sad...
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> Am 05.03.2012 11:57, schrieb Matt Richardson:
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> I use backlight toggles and I just tried opening multiple applications
such that they collapsed. I don't see the problem you're talking about,
perhaps you could elaborate?
> Personally I think that backlight toggles by default would really help
new users to define which apps are open.
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> Four other potential solutions (screenshots below):
>  - Desaturate the non-runnning apps, but not completely.
>  - Blur non-running apps slightly
>  - Shrink non-running apps
>  - Add a shine to running apps
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> Matt
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> Current:                 Desaturate:            Blur:
   Shrunk:                 Glow:
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> On 04/03/12 22:50, Hans Heintze wrote:
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> On 03/04/2012 04:14 PM, Bartosz wrote:
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> Hi.
> I think the current indication of started and active application should
be improved.
> The small arrows on the left/right side is not good visible (especially
on tablet/phone sceen)
> What is your proposal of improve visibility of the already started
appplication?
> And how we could improve currently active application?
> I have already filled the bug for that issue:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/917951
> Best Regards
> Bartosz
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> Agreed. There is a problem with enabling backlight toggle by default
however, it makes it difficult to distinguish between collapsed tiles. tile
theming needs to be reconsidered by design and likely redone all together
for many reasons, including the following:
> -poor distinguishably for colourblind people
> -backlight in it's present form can obstruct application outline
> -tile theming does not correctly match the light source/dispersion of
radiance theme
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