With the introduction of the transparent panel in the overview, we
started making the panel text/icon color slightly brighter in the
overview and on the lockscreen to ensure best contrast. Now
unfortunately, setting the text color incurred a relayout of the
underlying ClutterText actor (fixed with
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1750), and
setting the icon color causes the icon texture to get regenerated
(fixed with
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/932).
Regenerating the icon texture will replace the icon actor, which also
causes a relayout.
This relayout of the panel has been measured to add at least 1
millisecond (the numbers fluctuated a lot) to about 5 ms it takes to
layout the first frame when showing the overview.
Since https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/932 is
unlikely to land this cycle, this commit proposes a different solution:
Simply don't use a different color for text in the overview. To avoid
issues with contrast in the overview, make the default color slightly
brighter and change it from #ccc to #ddd.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/1733>
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