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Status: WontFix
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Closed: May 2018
Cc:
sgabr...@chromium.org
est...@chromium.org
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OS: Chrome
Pri: 2
Type: Bug-Regression



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Transparency in themes no longer works as of 68.0.3431.0.

Reported by d...@rocketship.com, May 18 2018 
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 10682.0.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/68.0.3431.0 Safari/537.36
Platform: 10682.0.0 (Official Build) dev-channel leon

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Download & Unzip the Aura/Ash Transparency theme above.
2. Load the unpacked theme in chrome://extensions
2. The transparency on the top browser bar now appears blue.
3. It use to be see-through (transparent).

What is the expected behavior?
I've been using this Chrome theme for 5+ years and never had an issue. Now in the recent dev channel update (68.0.3431.0) it no longer produces a transparent(see-through) top bar as it has done everytime before. Only a blue top bar appears.

What went wrong?
Something has changed for the worse in 68.0.3431.0 dev channel that prevents transparency in themes. It needs to be fixed. Attached image is how it should appear.

WebStore page: https://www.mediafire.com/?e0lolnt9rlc6s64

Did this work before? Yes 68.0.3423.2

Chrome version: 68.0.3431.0  Channel: dev
OS Version: 10682.0.0
Flash Version: 30.0.0.85
aura ash theme.jpg
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Comment 1 by woxxom@gmail.com, May 19 2018 

It was changed by 8f007b9234b738cb34689863b43a6fdff62e9f95
"Fix theme background to always be opaque"
Landed in 68.0.3426.0

Quoting the description:

	We introduced a mistake where if the image was not opaque, the
	background color was no longer drawn behind it, so on chromeos the
	chrome header ui could be seen through. This fixes the issue by
	rearranging the painting some, and improving some performance corner
	cases while we're here.

So the change is definitely intended but it's not clear whether anyone actually thought they're killing off a super cool feature for unspecified gains in speed in unknown percentage of cases.

Comment 2 by d...@rocketship.com, May 19 2018 

Horrible decision, imo. When the chrome header ui is transparent as some themes enable it to be in earlier versions, it makes the browser blend in with the OS in a more natural way and is much easier on the eyes (imo). I switched back to the Stable channel.
Screenshot 2018-05-19 at 6.59.59 AM.png
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Comment 3 by est...@chromium.org, May 22 2018

Cc: sgabr...@chromium.org
Status: WontFix (was: Unconfirmed)
the transparency was never intentional
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