The bug is not invalid. It may belong to ibus or to Cinnamon or to
something else.
Are all icons supposed to have transparent backgrounds? If so, that
would mean that both icons and desktop environments should adhere to
strict color guidelines so that icons are always guaranteed to be
legible. Do such guidelines exist? If so, either (a) this icon does not
have an acceptable color, or (b) Cinnamon's panel does not have an
acceptable background color, or (c) the guidelines are not good enough.
If there are no such guidelines, then icons should never have a
completely transparent background without any border. That is, they
should be designed in whatever way that guarantees that they are visible
on any backround.
So, something is wrong somewhere, either in how the icon is designed, or
in how the desktop environment is designed, or in the the framework
where the desktop and the icons live.
That the user can change the icon color is cool but is not a solution.
The icon must be visible out of the box.
So far, iBus icon is the only one I've ever seen that is practically invisible.
Most icon have bright colors, which seems to suggest that if there is an
expectation about the background color, it's that it is dark, which my current
panel background is.
** Changed in: ibus (Ubuntu)
Status: Invalid => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1895454
Title:
ibus indicator is unreadable, and the dropdown doesn't clarify what
option is selected
Status in ibus package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
I don't know exactly what iBus is and what it does, but it has this
indicator on the bottom-right corner of the screen (whatever that area
is called) which shows what the currently selected input language is,
whatever that means. For example, on my system there are two choices
available: "Spanish - Spanish" and "English - English (US)", and
therefore the indicator shows either "ES" or "EN" depending on which
one is selected. Whatever the effect of that is.
The issue is, this indicator is designed with an idiotic choice of
colours: a very dark blue text on a very dark gray background, which
makes it mostly unreadable. I am not color blind nor visually
impaired, yet both colors are almost undistinguishable to me, and it
costs me a great effort to tell whether it says "EN" or "ES".
Additionally, adding to the idiocy, if I click on it to see which one
is actually selected, a dropdown unfolds where the two options are
listed, and the currently selected one is not highlighted in any way!!
It seems that the selected one is always shown first, which, assuming
it's true, I can only learn by changing the selection back and forth,
when it could have been as easy as showing the currently selected one
in bold.
It looks as if every single possible step had been purposefully taken
to make this less useful, because even by doing it carelessly and
without putting any thought into it, it's unlikely that it could turn
out so ridiculously badly designed.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: ibus 1.5.22-2ubuntu2.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-47.51-generic 5.4.55
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-47-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.8
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: X-Cinnamon
Date: Sun Sep 13 15:38:34 2020
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-11 (2528 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
SourcePackage: ibus
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-07-12 (62 days ago)
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