I think youāre right @mozit - I was trying to shoehorn in another orange accent, but it looks better without it here.
Okay - my last screenshot. As an Ubuntu end user, I would like to formally place a vote for the following to be the default look in Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver:
Shell and launcher as per 17.10 - except, when the window is maximised, Iād prefer the Gnome heading to turn opaque without a noticeable gradient, to suit @wfpaisaās flat modern theme;
Orange/purple wallpaper with āfoldsā, as per current Ubuntu style;
GTK theme using @wfpaisaās design, except with a dark title bar for windows and an orange āxā button - taking cues from Ambience and Unity 8;
@snwhās rebooted Suru icons - ideally enriched with a small number of Suru-framed icons for the most commonly used default 3rd party apps, as per my previous mockup:
Thanks for taking the time to look at my posts. Thereās a lot of good-looking stuff in this thread, and I have every confidence that whatever the design team produces will look great
@jaggersAwesome work! Thereās tiny details I would do different, but there are as many different preferences as there are people, so if this is the theme landing in 18.04, I will be absolutely thrilled
Theme looks nice, but please dont use too dark titlebars with no light/border/gradient at the top. If you have two titlebars slightly overlapping, with dark themes (such as Adapta) its very hard to distinguish where one titlebar ends and the other starts. The Pop variant of Adapta works better because it has a slight āshineā near the top of the titlebar. With lighter themes its less of an issue - as the shadow helps to distinguish between two windows.
So, if it has to be dark (and Ambiannceās dark title and header bars are nice), then please either add a slight āshineā, gradient, or some other means to distinguish between titlebars of applications. This is also an issue with two unfocussed windows - so you canāt just use different shades for focussed and unfocussed.
@madsrh Thank you! I donāt believe I have permission to post in that thread - it says āUpdates Designer onlyā and I donāt get the Reply button. Some good-looking screenshots in that thread.
@CraigD, you may well be right - this is just a mockup of one isolated window in GIMP. It may be that it benefits from a light shine, once multiple windows are being opened/moved around
You can, but it wonāt be reliable and ājust workā for every program.
Window corners can be rounded just fine. The problem comes when a a widget overlaps and draws over where the corner is rounded. @wfpaisa explains it here.
I think that design has a bit too much clutter, especially since the idea behind icon masking was to make everything more unified. This makes the difference between icons stand out even moreā¦
If thereās a āpreferred optionā; make it green
If thereās a ādestructiveā option; make it red.
So in the case of the login button, this is the preferred button, so make it green but thereās no need to make the cancel button red because itās not destructive. I think this is already possible with Gnome, I think buttons have a property that tells you if the action is preferred or destructive. If none of the above apply, make it a normal, non-colored option.
So as @didrocks points out, the actual name in Gnome is āsuggested actionā:
@meetdilip, in my explanation I only mention ādestructiveā for red buttons. Green should be the action that the app developer or the OS developer suggests you click on in 99% of the cases. This gives the user an additional confirmation that what he is doing is ācorrectā. Itās ok to press the green button since that will ādo the right thingā in 99% of the cases. For the login screen, 99% of the cases, a user wants to login.
@didrocks, is there any notion of a ādestructiveā action in Gnome? Either āan action you should not doā of āa dangerous actionā?
I actually think the first example is a lot more user-friendly. Option one clearly shows that the button is associated with the textbox. This isnāt clear anymore in option 2.
Flat is good, but letās not throw away years of improvements of subtle UX hintsā¦
Not making an argument, what if I am sitting in front of a locked screen of an office machine, or another home machine. Ubuntu need not further fuel my curiosity in trying passwords on the login screen. Wifeās name, childās name etc of the machine owner. A locked screen is locked for various reasons. It could be due to privacy in presence of an outsider. A developer need not have to suggest that the PC should be unlocked.