Background on application menu makes icons difficult to see on noisy backgrounds

[ikelos]

In the previous version of Holo (by r3gis3r) the overview's background was much darker, meaning no matter how noisy the background (or if nautilus was handling the desktop) the application icons were always distinct. This theme handles 3.6 superbly, but the overview background is too transparent (as of commit 55ca352), particularly now that the icons are closer together and without text to separate the rows. Would it be possible to darken this to make it more usable, or at least indicate which properties need changing in the CSS for people to manually darken this? Thanks very much for the high quality theme!

[gravitezero]

Hi,

thanks.
What you want to look for is the #overview in gnome-shell.css
(Holo/gnome-shell/gnome-shell.css)

So, you could add the background line, at the very bottom (like in the
following snippet), or uncomment what I previously commented.
Uncommenting the last background-gradient should give you the same as the
r3gis3r version.

/* Overview */

#overview {
    spacing: 12px;
    /*background-color: #000000;*/
    /*background-gradient-direction: vertical;
        background-gradient-start: #000000;
        background-gradient-end: #272C32;*/
/*    background-gradient-direction: vertical;
        background-gradient-start: #000000;
        background-gradient-end: rgba(0,0,0,0.25);*/
    background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8);
}

On 10 November 2012 14:11, ikelos notifications@github.com wrote:

In the previous version of Holo (by r3gis3r) the overview's background was
much darker, meaning no matter how noisy the background (or if nautilus was
handling the desktop) the application icons were always distinct. This
theme handles 3.6 superbly, but the overview background is too transparent
(as of commit 55ca35255ca352d),
particularly now that the icons are closer together and without text to
separate the rows. Would it be possible to darken this to make it more
usable, or at least indicate which properties need changing in the CSS for
people to manually darken this? Thanks very much for the high quality theme!

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[ikelos]

Thanks very much, that last one is exactly what I was looking for!

[gravitezero]

I reopened it, if anyone wants to get the tips, it will be easier.