gray app icons missing, replaced with green

[mossy-nw]

Qubes OS version:

R4.0_rc3

Affected TemplateVMs:

dom0

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Steps to reproduce the behavior:

set VM label color to gray in VM Settings GUI or by
[dom0 ~]$ qvm-prefs vm-name label gray

Expected behavior:

App icons in ALT-F1 list, menu bar, and in Application Finder (ALT-F3) as well as in Application Switcher (ALT-TAB) should be colored gray.

Actual behavior:

Lock icons and window borders are colored gray, but app icons in ALT-F1 list, menu bar, and in Application Finder (ALT-F3) as well as in Application Switcher (ALT-TAB) are colored green.

General notes:

• also it can take some time before colors and Selected Applications (from VM Settings GUI) propagate to Application Finder

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Related issues:

perhaps #3102

[marmarek]

What was previous label of that VM? green?

[marmarek]

What was previous label of that VM? green?

[mossy-nw]

the VM was restored from a backup as gray (and brand new VMs created from GUI or command line with gray labels also have the issue).

[mossy-nw]

the VM was restored from a backup as gray (and brand new VMs created from GUI or command line with gray labels also have the issue).

[3hhh]

Honestly I would suggest to remove gray as a choice altogether as it can easily be seen as black depending on the screen brightness and most users tend to use black for their most valuable VMs.

For awesome I even recall that gray was used as a color to represent the focus state of the window to the user: Usually colors are made more dark for unfocused windows whereas for black it is made more light (= gray) which leads us to another reason why having gray might not be the best idea.

[3hhh]

Honestly I would suggest to remove gray as a choice altogether as it can easily be seen as black depending on the screen brightness and most users tend to use black for their most valuable VMs.

For awesome I even recall that gray was used as a color to represent the focus state of the window to the user: Usually colors are made more dark for unfocused windows whereas for black it is made more light (= gray) which leads us to another reason why having gray might not be the best idea.

[mossy-nw]

Users can simply choose to avoid any color, and gray is not set for any default appVMs, so I would say, please leave it in.

[mossy-nw]

Users can simply choose to avoid any color, and gray is not set for any default appVMs, so I would say, please leave it in.