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[Brandon Watkins <bwat47@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'd much rather have consistent looking menus than an always transparent
panel. The menus looking totally different than the panel would *really* bother
me.

On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Georgi Karavasilev <motorslav@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> The unity panel has several issues that have been existing since 11.04:
>   - The panel shadow is not a real proper GL drawn shadow, but rather a
> .PNG that is being repeated right below the panel and that causes the
> following issues:
>     - The higher the value of panel's opacity is, the smaller the panel
> shadow is, hence resulting in disappearing completely when the opacity
> level is below 0.3500
>     - The panel opacity is tied to the file manager drawing the desktop
>   - The panel transparency is not completely chameleonic (or custom
> coloured if the user has set a custom colour via CCSM), but it rather mixes
> the chameleonic colour with the GTK theme set colour (gradient) for the
> panel, hence resulting in being next to impossible to make the launcher and
> the panel being coloured the same way
>   - The panel is not transparent and chameleonic out of the box, but
> follows the GTK theming which results in these:
>     - Pros: The panel is being consistent with the gtk themed indicator
> menus and the appmenu
>     - Cons: The panel is inconsistent with the transparent and chameleonic
> launcher
>   - There are bugs with the using panel transparency under Intel videos
> like:
>     - When the "panel opacity toggles" is enabled and switching from one
> workspace to another not using the Ctrl+Alt+Arrow keys the panel blurring
> sometimes gets screwed and leaves the planned with a background blurred a
> millisecond or so before the switch to the workspace
>     - The panel sometimes go transparent when the Dash is active, even
> through there is an maximized window on this workspace
> My point is - even if we forget about the bugs for a while, shouldn't the
> panel be chameleonic and transparent out of the box(of course with "panel
> opacity" toggles enabled so when the user maximases a window everything is
> to look consistent) ? Surely that would break the consistency with the GTK
> themed indicators and the appmenu , but it also would mean that the panel
> will be consistent with the launcher and the chances are people spend more
> time on their computers without browsing through the indicator or the
> appmenu :)
>
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