Ayatana Design

Unity Greeter - Update indicator menus so that they match the Unity Greeter style

Bug #932181 reported by John Lea
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This bug affects 8 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ayatana Design
Fix Committed
Critical
John Lea
unity-greeter (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Medium
Unassigned
Raring
Won't Fix
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

Make the indicator menu backgrounds in the Unity Greeter 50% transparent so that the match the style of the of the header. See attached file "greeter_menu.png", but only look at the header and the menu, ignore the rest of this design.

Tags: top5p udp
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John Lea (johnlea) wrote :
tags: added: udp
Changed in ayatana-design:
assignee: nobody → John Lea (johnlea)
importance: Undecided → Critical
status: New → Triaged
Changed in unity-greeter:
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in unity-greeter (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Andrea Cimitan (cimi)
tags: added: top5p
Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)
Changed in unity-greeter:
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in unity-greeter (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in unity-greeter:
importance: Undecided → Low
Changed in unity-greeter (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
John Lea (johnlea)
Changed in ayatana-design:
importance: Critical → High
Michael Terry (mterry)
Changed in unity-greeter (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Andrea Cimitan (cimi)
John Lea (johnlea)
Changed in ayatana-design:
importance: High → Critical
Tim Penhey (thumper)
Changed in ayatana-design:
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
John Lea (johnlea)
Changed in unity-greeter (Ubuntu):
importance: Low → High
Revision history for this message
Andrea Cimitan (cimi) wrote :

To fix this, we need compositing in the greeter, and some patches to the indicator code.

Changed in unity-greeter (Ubuntu):
assignee: Andrea Cimitan (cimi) → nobody
John Lea (johnlea)
Changed in unity-greeter (Ubuntu):
importance: High → Critical
Revision history for this message
Michael Terry (mterry) wrote :

Can you expand on that cimi? We don't have compositing right now, I know. But what do you mean by patches in indicator code?

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Andrea Cimitan (cimi) wrote :

The menu is rendered by the indicator library, that means we can't style from the greeter. We have to either export something and style in html from the greeter, or patch the indicator library to provide a style for the greeter (ugly). The latter will still not work without compositing, because the menu is a toplevel gtkwindow, thus requires RGBA colormap through the compositor.

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Michael Terry (mterry) wrote :

Marking Won't Fix for raring, as I likely won't be able to get to this (getting this off my status radar). If someone else wants to pick it up, be my guest and re-open!

Further, this requires intense work like adding a compositor to the greeter.

Also, this doesn't seem Critical. Re-aligning as Medium.

Changed in unity-greeter (Ubuntu Raring):
importance: Critical → Medium
status: Triaged → Won't Fix
Stephen M. Webb (bregma)
Changed in unity-greeter:
milestone: none → 14.04.01
Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)
no longer affects: unity-greeter
Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)
tags: added: rls-w-incoming
Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)
tags: added: rls-x-incoming
removed: rls-w-incoming
Will Cooke (willcooke)
tags: removed: rls-x-incoming
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