As others have mentioned the transparency of the panel should be dynamic. when a windows is maximized it should go back to opaque.
It could even be made transparent by default, similar to how the unity greeter (lightdm) looks ________________________________ > From: [email protected] > Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 17:00:32 +0100 > To: [email protected] > CC: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Ayatana] semi-transparent indicator menus > > On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 23:27, Matthew Paul Thomas > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Which do you think is more important: for indicator menus to have the > same style as other pull-down menus, or the same style as the Dash? > > a homogenous surface called Unity, preferrably transparency-enabled, so > the Dash. > > The Dash partly solves this readability problem by using larger text > whenever possible. Menus can't. > > I think the Dash and the Unity Launcher are handsome, because they form > a see-through overlay interface above live content, kinda like a sheet > of blurry glass. > It's a quite comprehensible metaphor, only that the top-right-corner > part of this metaphor is broken, i can't see through it. > > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: > https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : > https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
