Compiz add transparency to titlebar along with the panel

Bug Description

When using a translucent panel using CCSM, compiz also adds the transparency value to the titlebar of unmaximized apps.

I noticed this in unity trunk, ppa:unity-team/staging to be more precise.

Version: 5.0.0~+bzr1815ubuntu0+611

Update:
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Just noticed that overlay scrollbars thumb also turns transparent

Testcase:
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Change the panel opacity in CCSM
Move a window
The decorations should not be transparent

This is intended, isn't it? Or am I missing something?

No. Only the top panel should turn transparent nothing else.

BTW, the screenshot is an unmaximized window.

Can you double-check in the list of running processes if you're using unity-window-decorator or gtk-window-decorator?

Might be an issue with gtk-window-decorator because I can't reproduce it with unity-window-decorator here.

If it doesn't help, try if unity --reset fixes the issue.

No, this is not a bug in gtk-window-decorator. It's not running on my machine. I don't this even is a bug in unity-window-decorator because ayatana-scrollbars become transparent too. The problem is somewhere in compiz.

What fixes the issue is making the panel 100% opaque.

Ok, now this is being touted as 5.0's new feature https://twitter.com/#!/Chris_Wilkinson/status/157903375470563328/photo/1

The funny thing is this bug can become a nice little feature, however if it's to become one it needs blur, just like the Dash and the Panel :)

Seriously, is this a feature or a bug?

Well, there is not an option for titlebar opacity in CCSM, which kinda indicates that this is more of a bug, but even if that's a fact, I still consider it more of a feature.
Anyway I am in favour of adding blur and making option in CCSM for "titlebar opacity"

And one. more thing: If this "thing" is to become a feature the windows controls (e.g. close, minimize and maximize buttons) should *not* become transparent.

I vote for feature.

Obviously people might want to have different transparency levels for the panel and titlebar. However the matching transparency levels look good. Having the blur would improve readability of the titles etc.

I'm gonna chime in and say it's a bug. Doing this breaks the coherency provided by the new titlebar and toolbar themes that blend together really well.

If it's a feature, it's broken because of buttons (comment #13) and because it looks really ugly with light themes (see the attached screenshot; it looks bad when using, for example, Radiance).

@smspillaz, can you help us? :)

Thinking of what @CassidyJames said and from pure design point of view I don't consider transparent titlebars to be a good idea, because they break the consistency with the window bellow them *BIG* time (Win 7, anyone). That means even if this ... well whatever it is becomes a feature (gets fixed to look nice with all themes, buttons should stay opaque etc...) it should not come enabled out of the box.
Also, if "panel transparency" also affects the thumbs of the overlay scrollbars, that's gotta be a bug.

I think it's a bug.

Additionally the background of the "root-terminal" (/usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator) is involved in the same manner.

Depending the theme, it could happen, no character could be read anymore.

For me it's a bug, too!!

Have the same issue on panel opacity < 1

Nothing much have changed in compiz in Precise, just the SRU from oneiric was take in so is mostly a unity BUG.

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

I am still not able to reproduce this bug on my system, I have the transparent panel but dont see the issue o_O

aha, so the issue Does not happen on my nvidia machine with the nvidia-current but on my netbook it happens which have intel graphics.

sorry, its all confusing; I see it on both intel and NVIDIA.

since the issue is also happening in unity 4.28.0 (the -proposed oneiric update) where there are not much changes, it might be easier to hunt the responsible commit. (BigFBO ?)

I *can* confirm that it happens for Intel and ATi videos (the 2nd with both fglrx and the open source driver), however I'm unable to replicate it with nVidia card (with both - the proprietary and the open source driver). It's weird.
My Intel and ATi machines both run Unity 5.0 and the nVidia 4.28.0 and according to @om26er it *should* be happening to all of the machines ... weird.

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

It is definately a bug, because the transparency is also applied to terminal windows (tried with Terminal and Terminator). And if you have already set a transparency value, they are added up.

If this should be a feature, then please make panel and titlebars configurable separately.

I have reduced the importance for Unity(upstream) and unity in precise since its a non-standard option but kept the priority high for the stable series since its a regression there

Hello Owais, or anyone else affected,

Accepted unity into oneiric-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

Hey Martin,

I'm sorry but I can't test the packages in proposed as I've only Precise installed on my laptop. I can confirm it works fine on precise.

Hi Martin, I can cconfirm it's fixed in Unity 5.x in Precise and Oneiric (via the staging PPA).
However I can't test for Unity 4.x for Oneiric, at least not now.
I guess it should be tagged as "Fix Rleased" for milestone Unity 5.2.0 "Greased Weasel"

I can confirm it's fixed in Ubuntu 11.10 Unity 4.30 from the proposed repo :)
Evidence: see the screenie :)
It think it's pretty safe to say that it can be tagged as "Fix Released :P

This only affected oneiric-proposed, so closing oneiric task now.

wasn't fixed with latest updates from the staging ppa in Oneiric

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 5.2.0-0ubuntu1

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