Bug 358578 - Active window taskbar entry background too bright in Breeze Dark theme
Summary: Active window taskbar entry background too bright in Breeze Dark theme
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Theme - Breeze (show other bugs)
Version: 5.5.3
Platform: Arch Linux Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: visual-design
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Reported: 2016-01-26 10:47 UTC by Radics Péter
Modified: 2016-09-26 15:49 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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proposed tasks decortation for breeze-dark theme (5.78 KB, application/octet-stream)
2016-01-26 10:49 UTC, Radics Péter
Details
original (bright blue active window in taskbar) (549.78 KB, image/png)
2016-01-26 16:46 UTC, Radics Péter
Details
modified (only the border is blue in taskbar for active window) (537.92 KB, image/png)
2016-01-26 16:47 UTC, Radics Péter
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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.