Re: [Usability] Appareance of widgets when windows lose focus

[Milan Bouchet-Valat <nalimilan club fr>]

Le jeudi 15 mars 2012 à 18:57 +0100, Andrea Corbellini a écrit :
> Hello,
> 
> I'm using Gnome Shell 3.3.90 on Ubuntu with the Adwaita theme and I've
> noticed that when a window loses focus, its widgets are grayed-out, like
> if they were disabled (though they're not disabled).
> 
> Personally, I find it annoying because this makes the widgets harder to
> read. Also, progress bars are very very difficult to interpret: see the
> attached screenshot of Transmission for a clear example.
> 
> Previously, I used Activities->Windows very often. From there, I could
> check the status of multiple windows at once, just pressing the Super
> key. Now I can't do it anymore because windows are mostly unreadable and
> I am forced to focus each window whenever I need to check it.
> 
> Therefore I'm wondering: what is the rationale behind this behavior? Do
> you consider it should be enabled by default?
Yeah, it was designed to help people, not to disturb them, so it's meant
to be enabled by default. These days, we don't often introduce features
that are not meant for the majority.

Have a look at the long conversation on the bug report:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=661428

I'm not sure the fact that windows also appear greyed out from the
overview was really a goal. You may want to ask people on the
#gnome-design IRC channel about that (ask jimmac).


Cheers