Titlebar issues with Ubuntu GNOME 12.04

[in0ni]

First of all, thanks a huge deal for the work on maintaining an updated version of this theme -- sure many of us feel the same way :)

Please refer to the following screenshot that demonstrates issues:

The one major issue title bars on Nautilus and Tweak Tool -- note: on screen they are actually black, on the screenshot file (png taken using plain ol' print screen) it's actually rendered with a checkered box -- indicating transparency. on the uploaded file its rendering as white -- it does not appear white on my screen.

Other two issues are minor design problems and are only visible on the active window:

1. top highlight for active window has the contrast is too high -- its basically white. a subtle contrast would better match original theme rendering.
2. shadow on active window title is light (on light text), it should be dark.

Please let me know if you need anything on my end to help!

[rbrito]

Dear @in0ni.

On Jun 03 2014, in0ni wrote:

First of all, thanks a huge deal for the work on maintaining an updated version of this theme -- sure many of us feel the same way :)

Thank you very much for recognizing the effort. It is highly appreciated and keeps us (at least me) motivated to continue with the maintenance.

Please refer to the following screenshot that demonstrates issues:

I see. Which theme are you using (it must be one of the very dark ones)? Can you switch momentarily to MediterraneanNight to see if things there look better? That's the only one that we have been testing and changing.

A lot of the themes have duplicate files and I think that it would be better if we simply factored out the differences in a Mediterranean-common (or Mediterranean-base) subpackage that contains the common files/definitions, so that every other theme gets the changes whenever we improve one of them.

If the problem still persists with MediterraneanNight, then I think that we have to chase things more closely.

Please let me know if you need anything on my end to help!

Let us first try to get a more precise picture of the problem and, then, test for more specific things.

Thanks a lot for using the themes,

Rogério.

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[in0ni]

Sorry for the late reply...

Yes, I am using MeditteraneanDarkest. As suggested, I switched to MediterraneanNight and the title bar does render properly for nautilus. Seems like your right, because all variations -- with the exception of Night and NightDarkest -- have the issue. As you can see here its fine on *Night.

you can also see in the screen shot that the other minor still exist though, even in the Night variations of the theme; the overly bright highlight and the light shadow for the text.

in addition to this the last few days i discovered another minor issue which you can see in that screenshot: the hover color for the close icon on the active window is a not correct. this actually is the case for any of the variations.

here is a look at the *WhiteNight theme -- the color is dark in this case (cursor is disabled in the screenshot, but it's over the close button):

This week will be easier, so let me know how I can help, and I'll have better response times ;)