1253577 - Ugly transparency for "plain" popups and arrows in ffdevtools (dark theme)

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(DevTools :: Inspector, defect, P3)

Description

[Jens]

Attachment: Arrows with transparency in dark theme

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:44.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/44.0
Build ID: 20160210153822

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open devtools and inspektor
2. Click on any "ev" node to get the events popup (see screenshot)


Actual results:

The letters from the below html shines through the transparent arrow. See screenshot


Expected results:

Should be more like in the light theme where the text does not shine trough in such a way. Seems like the transparency for dark theme is set higher than in the light theme.

Comment 1

[Loic]

It's because the arrow as the same transparency as the background tooltip.

Comment 2

[Jens]

Attachment: Too_high_transparency_dark_theme.png

Besides of this or maybe due to this: Transparency of the background popup seems to be too high in the dark theme anyway.

Comment 3

[Jens]

Attachment: Object_with_attributes.png

If the looked at object in the popup has attributes (Array/Object not just plain String) then the transparency is way lower and it looks much better. See Screenshot

Comment 4

[Patrick Brosset <:pbro>]

I think the opacity is the same in both themes, but it shows a bit more with the dark-theme indeed.
Helen, do you mind taking a look at this and advising if we need to adjust the opacity of our tooltips?

Comment 5

[Helen V. Holmes (:helenvholmes) (:✨)]

I'm marking this as WONTFIX because of Bug 1258365.