Adwaita: border too dark, hard to identify overlapping black windows
Submitted by Antonio Ospite
Link to original bug (#769006)
Description
Hi,
in recent gtk versions the window border is too dark, and when two "black" windows overlap (e.g. two terminals, two "eog" windows) it's very hard to identify visually which part belongs to which window.
Some users thought that this was a problem with CSD/SSD[1], but maybe it's just a theme issue.
I tried to fix the issue by using more contrast for the border, while still trying to be subtle, this is the snippet I came up with (I have it in an "overlay theme" which imports Adwaita and then apply some fixups):
.ssd decoration { box-shadow: 0 0 0 1px rgba(46, 52, 54, 0.9); } decoration { box-shadow: 0 3px 9px 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5), 0 0 0 1px rgba(46, 52, 54, 0.9); }
The attached screenshot shows the intended result, the fix works with xterms and eog under metacity/gnome-flashback, but when I use mutter/gnome-shell I can only see a slight improvement with eog (CSD) but no changes for xterms or gnome-terminal windows (SSD).
Any idea about how to fix the issue in a more generic way?
Would these changes conflict with the rationale in #722563 ?
Thanks, Antonio
[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=821410