** Description changed: unity 4.10.2-0ubuntu2, Ubuntu Ocelot unity 5.4.0-0ubuntu2, Ubuntu 12.04 beta 1 The Unity launcher places each application icon on a colored tile. The color is chosen by averaging the colors used in the icon itself. This was an interesting idea, but it doesn't work. If an icon uses mostly one color, and doesn't have cartoon-like borders, the surrounding color washes out the icon and makes it hard to recognize. <https://launchpadlibrarian.net/78619733/Launcher%2520washout.png> demonstrates the problem with: * Ubuntu Software Center * Language Support * Mozilla Thunderbird * Universal Access (moot once bug 801784 is fixed) * Update Manager * Synaptic * Me Maker * gbrainy. <https://launchpadlibrarian.net/67598254/apport_icon.png> demonstrates the problem with Apport. <https://launchpadlibrarian.net/97878850/Ubuntu-12.04-China-profile.png> demonstrates the problem with the Chinese portal Hao222. - And the problem also exists with Apport, Chromium, and Skype. + The problem is also demonstrated by Apport, Chromium, Galculator, and + Skype. An icon that looks beautiful in the Dash, the messaging or sound menus, Docky, or AWN, and even in Windows or Mac OS X, can easily look terrible in the Unity launcher. Therefore, the problem is with the launcher, not with the icons. Some of the ways in which this could be fixed: * Remove the background color from the Launcher icons altogether. * Make the background color much darker, or much lighter, than the average icon color. * Apply a shadow to the icons. (This would conflict with any shadow the icon already has, such as in Firefox.) * Allow individual applications to specify a custom color for their launcher tile. (But it's unlikely that most would bother.)
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