Re: [gnome-flashback] Low contrast in gnome-panel

[Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57 ubuntu com>]

Hi Alberts,

2015-07-22 20:24 GMT+03:00 Alberts Muktupāvels <alberts muktupavels gmail com>:
> > With gnome-panel 3.16 and Adwaita theme, the standard applets are lacking
> > contrast: the text is gray on light-gray (with light theme) or gray on
> > dark-gray (with dark theme).
> >
> > This happens with all standard applets (like menu, clock and window list)
> > but not with i.e. netspeed. A screenshot is attached.
>
> That is because out-process applets does not use / does not see theme from
> gnome-panel.

Menu, clock and user applets are in-process, aren't they? And netspeed
is out-of-process, but displays correctly.

> > Am I the only one getting this? Is this expected?
>
> Yes and yes.

Sebastian confirmed the issue, so I would say "no and yes" :-)

> But sooner or later there will be changes to gnome-panel and applets styling
> in code and it will require updating themes too.
>
> As tmp fix maybe libpanel-applet library should include same Adwaita.css and
> HighContrast.css that are included/loaded by gnome-panel? That might/should
> fix netspeed problem.

As I said, there is no problem with netspeed. The problem is with
built-in applets.

Maybe I'm not understanding something?

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Dmitry Shachnev