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[Alan Bell <alanbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

very nice!
just been checking the unity source and it seems that the chameleon 
colour selection algorithm has totally changed since last I looked at it 
and it is now perfectly reasonable - it was a recursive thing that was 
far too heavily weighted to the screen corners and a kind of X shape in 
the middle, now it uses _GNOME_BACKGROUND_REPRESENTATIVE_COLORS which is 
implemented by the desktop

Alan.
On 04/10/12 22:30, Matt Richardson wrote:
> Hi Alan,
>
> This project will match the ambiance theme colours to those used by
> unity: https://launchpad.net/ambiance-chameleon
>
> 1) Download the tar.gz and extract the files anywhere you like.
> 2) Set the ambiance-chameleon script to run at startup.
> 3) Log out and back in.
> 4) Change your wallpaper or re-select the current one
>
> Hope this helps. I use it with 66% panel opacity.
>
> Matt
>
>
> On 04/10/12 21:59, Alan Bell wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > the launcher and dash and HUD are all very pretty and pick out colours
> > from the wallpaper (with a terrible algorithm that shouldn't work as
> > well as it does but that is another story), if you turn the panel
> > transparency down to 0.01 you get a similar effect in the panel
> > (turning it to zero messes things up a bit though) so this is rather
> > sweet looking. The dropdown global menu and indicators are however big
> > square cornered grey slabs
> >
> > http://people.ubuntu.com/~alanbell/menu.png
> >
> > can we make those pick up chameleon colours, with maybe white text
> > like the HUD? Even better to look just like the HUD/Dash with the
> > chunky grey outline, blur background and curves that blend it into the
> > launcher/panel frame.
> >
> > Alan.


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