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indicator-sound package

indicator-sound volume slider background is wrong under certain gtk themes

Bug #522471 reported by Mathieu Pellerin on 2010-02-16

This bug affects 11 people

	Status	Importance	Assigned to
Indicator Display Objects	Fix Released	Undecided	Cody Russell
The Sound Menu	Invalid	Medium	Unassigned
indicator-sound (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Low	Unassigned
light-themes (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	High	Kenneth Wimer

Bug Description

Binary package hint: indicator-sound

The summary & attached screen capture are pretty self explanatory.

With Gtk themes that define different color values for the window background and the menu background, the indicator-sound volume slider background will use the defined window background color, looking odd when placed in a menu.

Very easy to confirm using dark themes such as Nigh Impression.

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Mathieu Pellerin (nirvn-asia) wrote on 2010-02-16:

sliderbackground.png Edit (5.3 KiB, image/png)

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Mathieu Pellerin (nirvn-asia) wrote on 2010-02-16:

Few possible solutions:
1/ Apply the menu background color to the slider's background.
2/ Add a frame surrounding the slider so it has a more attractive look when inserted in a menu.

Solution 1 can be a problem in itself if the slider is dark and the theme assumes it will be displayed on a light background (such as Night Impression, the theme used in attached screen capture)

Solution 2 might not be the best in terms of blending widget to the menu but would be the road to take to insure compatibility with most Gtk themes out there.

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote on 2010-02-18:

Its also visible when using Human theme.

Changed in indicator-sound (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2010-02-23:

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.

Changed in indicator-sound (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	Confirmed → Invalid

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Mathieu Pellerin (nirvn-asia) wrote on 2010-02-24:

Why was this bug relating to a background color inconsistency flagged as a duplicate of a bug relating to icons not showing up properly when missing from icon theme?!

Please un duplicate the bug.

Changed in indicator-sound (Ubuntu):
status:	Invalid → Confirmed

Omer Akram (om26er) on 2010-02-27

Changed in indicator-sound (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → Triaged

Conor Curran (cjcurran) on 2010-03-04

Changed in indicator-sound:
status:	New → Confirmed
Changed in indicator-sound (Ubuntu):
status:	Triaged → Invalid
Changed in indicator-sound:
status:	Confirmed → Invalid
importance:	Undecided → Medium
Changed in ido:
assignee:	nobody → Cody Russell (bratsche)
status:	New → In Progress

Cody Russell (bratsche) on 2010-03-05

Changed in ido:
status:	In Progress → Fix Released

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote on 2010-03-08:

This is fixed in Ambience 0.1.5.4, but not in Radiance. Reopening for light-themes.

Changed in light-themes (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → Kenneth Wimer (kwwii)

Kenneth Wimer (kwwii) on 2010-03-09

Changed in light-themes (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → High
status:	New → Confirmed

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Kenneth Wimer (kwwii) wrote on 2010-03-10:

This is now fixed in Radiance (awaiting upload, etc).

For all other themes, you need to add a style which includes a bg[NORMAL] and match that to ido-offscreen-scale. Something like this will work:

style "soundfix"
{
bg[NORMAL] = "#ff000" # change this color as needed
}

widget "ido-offscreen-scale" style "soundfix"

NOTE: you can also just match it to the style which defines the menus, etc.

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Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense) wrote on 2010-03-10:

Marking this as Fix Released since the package just showed up in Update Manager.

Changed in light-themes (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → Fix Released

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John Baer (j.baer) wrote on 2010-06-20:

Folks,

*** This bug is back! ***

I can not say exactly when but a recent update in Lucid causes the volume slider panel applet button so show very dark in all dark themes including Ambiance.

I confirmed this today with a fresh install of Lucid where everything was Ok. With no other changes and after the standard post install update the bug is visible.

John

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John Baer (j.baer) wrote on 2010-06-20:

#10

Just an update ...

Check out the image of this post.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/06/ubuntu-1010s-new-sound-menu-starts-to.html

John