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[Matt Richardson <m.richardson.1990@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That was exactly my concern with transparency. That's why it thought a 
chameleonic theme might be better.
As far as I remember, the themes are defined in css and the ambiance 
themes use a base colour, which is then adjusted to get the 
darker/lighter shades.
My idea would be simply to alter that base colour to the same colour 
chosen by the rest of the unity shell. Since this would be a one time 
write to a text file every time the background changed, it shouldn't be 
a problem for day to day use. I suppose the only impact might be on 
people with dynamic backgrounds (something I believe canonical said they 
would look into for 12.10 earlier on this list), where the colour value 
would change over the course of the day.

I think I have a way of creating a chameleonic theme initially so I'll 
put it together and see how it looks. The only thing I can't work out 
how to do at the moment is detect when the wallpaper is changed, without 
polling every few seconds (to avoid delays between changing the 
wallpaper and the theme updating). If anyone has any ideas they would be 
greatly appreciated.

Matt

p.s. I was intending to write this as a bash script, so methods of 
detecting the wallpaper change in bash only would be preferable.

On 22/05/12 18:47, shane lee wrote:
> I like the idea in general but I am slightly concerned what impact
> something like this might have on performance?
> I would be interested to hear from someone in the know?
>
> I would maybe think this could be a Radiance replacement, rather than
> an additional theme.
>
> On 22 May 2012 17:37, Matt Richardson<m.richardson.1990@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> > Absolutely. I actually stated that in the original remit. As much as
> > possible, the user's options should be kept open.
> >
> > Matt
> >
> > On 22/05/12 16:45, Ryan Gauger wrote:
> >
> > On 05/22/2012 10:40 AM, Jonathan French wrote:
> >
> > Unlike the current implementation of chameleonic launcher and notifications,
> > though, (due to a bug), it should be optional. :P
> >
> > The GNOME 'representative colour' recognizer seems to have an inexplicable
> > fondness for finding the single pixel of brown in a wallpaper and picking
> > that as the launcher colour.
> >
> > On 22 May 2012 13:53, Ryan Gauger<rtgkid@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> > > I would definitely like to see this land in Quantel. Great idea!
> > >
> > > On May 22, 2012, at 6:30 AM, Varun Priolkar<varunpr97@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> > >
> > > > Mark said the Ambiance theme will be refreshed for 12.10.. so lets
> > > > wait n watch..
> > > >
> > > > On 5/22/12, Matt Richardson<m.richardson.1990@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> > > > > I would really like to see a chameleonic theme land in 12.10.
> > > > > Not a transparent theme. Instead simply the ambiance theme (light to
> > > > > dark vertical gradient) but where the base colour is taken as the
> > > > > average colour of the wallpaper.
> > > > > I also think this would help the top-left corner issue, as the
> > > > > launcher,
> > > > > panel and window would blend a lot better.
> > > > > Also, this wouldn't prevent the user from selecting non-chameleonic
> > > > > themes, as some people would prefer the contrast.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thoughts?
> > > > > Matt
> > > > >
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> > Yes, I agree with you. It should be optional. The current Ubuntu light
> > themes should be an option (maybe default, with chameleon theme an option in
> > System Settings ->  Appearance.
> >
> >
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