Tag background colors stack up

[triallax]

This is how my i3bar-river config looks with a transparent tag_bg and tag_focused_bg:

So the background colors of the tags stack up on the background color of the bar as a whole, which is contrary to swaybar's behavior but also something I find generally confusing and unintuitive. Instead, I think the background color of the tags should only be determined by tag_bg (or the appropriate config variable).

[MaxVerevkin]

Yes, tags (and any other graphics drawn) blend with the background. Can you share a screenshot of the expected behavior? To me, transparent tag_bg mean that tags should not have a background, which is the case in your screenshot.

[triallax]

To me, transparent tag_bg mean that tags should not have a background, which is the case in your screenshot.

Sorry, I guess my screenshot isn't clear because of the transparency, but their background is in fact the same as the rest of the bar. Here's an image that makes that clearer:

tag_bg and tag_focused_bg are also transparent here, so the tag takes on the color of the bar, but what I would expect is for it to take on the color of the background image instead.

Can you share a screenshot of the expected behavior?

Here's swaybar with the workspace colors set to transparent:

Does that make what I mean clearer?

[MaxVerevkin]

Does that make what I mean clearer?

Yes. Does swaybar render (blend) everything like this, including status line, or just the workspaces?

[triallax]

swaybar uses the normal bar background for the rest of the bar (including the status line). The only other thing in the bar with a separately configurable background is binding_mode, which is also rendered like this.

[MaxVerevkin]

swaybar uses the normal bar background for the rest of the bar (including the status line).

Just to clarify, I mean if you set blocks background to transparent directly in JSON, do you see your bar's background or your wallpaper (like you do with workspaces)?

something I find generally confusing and unintuitive

Interesting, for me its the opposite :) I guess I can add blend option to configure this. blend = true would be the current behavior and blend = false is what swaybar does.

[triallax]

Just to clarify, I mean if you set blocks background to transparent directly in JSON, do you see your bar's background or your wallpaper (like you do with workspaces)?

Right, I forgot that I can set the block's background in the JSON output. Anyway, again, I see my wallpaper:

Interesting, for me its the opposite :) I guess I can add blend option to configure this. blend = true would be the current behavior and blend = false is what swaybar does.

Sure, that's an acceptable solution for me. We can bikeshed on the default value later. :P

[MaxVerevkin]

Here you go e07d987

[triallax]

Thanks again!