Khurshid Alam is correct. According to the Unity theming documenation
for Trusty 14.04 the panel text should be set by the UnityPanelWidget as
follows:
UnityPanelWidget,
.unity-panel {
background-color: shade (@dark_bg_color, 1.5);
color: @dark_fg_color; /* Text color */ <--- ***SHOULD BE SET HERE***
}
but it is actually being set by the UnityDecoration "top" code here:
/* This will theme the top decoration, so the whole space above the window */
UnityDecoration.top {
border: 1px solid shade (@bg_color, 0.5);
border-bottom-width: 0;
border-radius: 8px 8px 0 0; /* Corner radius, only the top ones should be */
padding: 1px 8px 0 8px; /* This padding will be applied to the content of
the top layout */
background-color: shade (@dark_bg_color, 1.5); /* Decoration background */
color: @dark_fg_color; /* The foreground color will be used to paint the
text */ <--- ***ACTUALLY BEING SET HERE ***
text-shadow: 1px 0 #333, -1px 0 #333, 0 1px #333, 0 -1px #333;
}
This makes it impossible to use a dark panel with light window treatment
as the title color for light window treatment is dark making the panel
label (e.g. "Ubuntu Desktop") and maximized title unreadable on a dark
panel.
In short the panel text color should be set by the unity panel widget
class not by the unity decoration class.
Since this problem is already bug reported I will not open another bug
report but track progress under this bug report number.
Thanks,
B.Bogert
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1296866
Title:
Allow unity-panel.menuitem to paint window title text for maximized
window in new Unity Decorator(Trusty)
Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
Some themes (Greybird, Elementary) use dark-panel & light window
title-bar (When it is not maximized). As new Unity window decorator
uses same title-bar foreground color for both normal & maximized
windows, window title on unity-panel is not properly visible as it
becomes dark-text on dark-panel. I have attached a screenshot.
This forces theme developer to use use same background color for both
unity-panel & un-maximized windows, which breaks theme design. The
idea is that theme-developers like to think unity-panel as a panel &
not just a title-bar for maximized window.
According to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity/Theming, color set in
UnityDecoration.top is used for both unmaximized & maximized window.
UnityDecoration.top {
color: @dark_fg_color
}
And when this is set, the color set in .unity-panel.menuitem is
ignored for window title text in panel (it still paints some other
text in panel like indicator-datetime)
.unity-panel .menuitem {
border-width: 0 1px;
color: @panel_fg_color; # this does not affect window title text
anymore.
}
This color (OR unity.panel foreground color in UnityPanelWidget)
should be used to paint the window tile text for maximized window, as
it used to be in old compiz-decorator.
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