
As the Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex (8.10) development gets going, many people will probably be wondering what new end-user features they can expect.
This article lists the top 5 new features.
My Take: Nothing really exciting. I still shiver over the inability of the default Totem installation not de-interlacing my camcomder-derived home videos and DVDs because GStreamer doesn't support it, or no full A/V support on Pidgin yet, or something
as simple as this which I've been asking for years now and it would probably take 5 minutes to implement.
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2006-10-29
That makes no sense what-so-ever.

I don't see why it needs to be a theme colour, there is a very simple solution for it, just have a semi-transparent gray overlay when the background is light and semi-transparent white overlay when the background is dark.
This is a simple solution that will work with any theme, probably not 5 minutes but I doubt it would be an hours work.
Stop making excuses, the developer is obviously lazy