Bug 358578

Summary:	Active window taskbar entry background too bright in Breeze Dark theme
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Radics Péter <mitchnull+kde>
Component:	Theme - Breeze	Assignee:	visual-design
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	jensreu, kde, mklapetek, plasma-bugs
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.5.3
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	proposed tasks decortation for breeze-dark theme original (bright blue active window in taskbar) modified (only the border is blue in taskbar for active window)

Description Radics Péter 2016-01-26 10:47:35 UTC

Breeze Dark theme is using the same background setting for taskbar entries as the default Breeze theme, but the default bright-blue background for active (focused) windows is too bright on the dark theme (it is like the window wants "attention", it keeps distracting).  I've modified the tasts.svgz file from the default breeze theme to only add a blue border to the active (focused) window, not tint the whole taskbar entry.  Unfortunately placing this file under /usr/share/plasma/desktoptheme/breeze-dark/widgets/ doesn't seem to be enough, so at the moment I overwrite the default (under  /usr/share/plasma/desktoptheme/default/widgets/).

Please consider changing the breeze-dark tasks.svgz to be a less bright (less attention-demanding) version.  



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1) change plasma theme to Breeze Dark
2) open a window (like a browser)
3) focus the new window

Actual Results:  
the visual feedback for active window in the taskbar with the breeze-dark theme is too bright, demanding attention

Expected Results:  
the taskbar entry for the window (when it is focused) should provide visual feedback about being focused, but not be too distracting

Comment 1 Radics Péter 2016-01-26 10:49:23 UTC

Created attachment 96848 [details]
proposed tasks decortation for breeze-dark theme

Feel free to use the attached tasks.svgz if you think it's an improvement for breeze-dark.

Comment 2 Martin Klapetek 2016-01-26 14:53:43 UTC

Thanks for the report

If you could attach a screenshot of it in action, ideally in comparison too,
that would be great :)

Comment 3 Radics Péter 2016-01-26 16:46:45 UTC

Created attachment 96855 [details]
original (bright blue active window in taskbar)

Comment 4 Radics Péter 2016-01-26 16:47:37 UTC

Created attachment 96856 [details]
modified (only the border is blue in taskbar for active window)

Comment 5 Radics Péter 2016-01-26 16:48:16 UTC

I uploaded two screenshots of the same layout (the second konsole is active).

Comment 6 Martin Klapetek 2016-01-26 16:49:59 UTC

Ok, thanks, good stuff.

I'll leave the theme creators to actually decide on it.

Comment 7 Jens Reuterberg 2016-09-25 19:23:35 UTC

I can't reproduce this now as in Breeze Dark the window decorations are both dark.