A lot of the shell mockups have the launcher and header quite dark when the window is not maximised. I actually like the current shell theme, which has them very transparent. The change when they fade to much darker colours is a mini “wow” moment when you maximise. In terms of the colours, all I would change from the 17.10 shell is to make the top bar flat and black (or very dark grey) when maximised, to go with the modern theme.
Really like how the windows are shaping up in the mockups thread - looks like the designers are circling around a flatter version of the Ambiance scheme (light window with dark header bar) which is exactly what I hoped for
Thanks for the reply. I am aware of all that and have logged a bug report about it . specifically the ability to move the apps button .
The Ubuntu desktop team can’t possibly support all the config options of dash-to-dock, that’s why they are hidden. You can change them yourself, but know that it’s a config that is not tested by Ubuntu QA.
I dont even know why this is an issue . And the end user should have an easy way to theme their ui to their liking . Im an end user with higher than average skills and i dont want to have to fire up dconf to change things either.
But back to the theme . I think a transparent dock has great eye appeal and is less distracting all at the same time , but when over a light background the icons can be lost. if when the dock comes into contact or pops out over a window it should become smoky to provide a better focus on the icons.
What if we tried icons that behaved in a similar way to Windows 10’s Start Menu when they have alerts? Not by way of 3D animations but even just a simple icon overlay. If an application (say Thunderbird) had a notification (new email), a simple Gaussian blur would cover the image and the number of waiting alerts on top.
To continue the Thunderbird example, when an email arrives in my inbox, the overlay would appear and drop a nice little 1 on top of the blur. This effect would last for maybe 3-5 seconds and then would disappear. For every new email after that the number would increase until the application is noticed.
Further to my last post… I’ve been playing around with animations. I wonder if the launcher was darkened in some mockups to evoke Unity 8? I think the current shell (with the very transparent launcher) and fade effect also work with an orange Ubuntu logo, and the combination resembles Unity 8 (a little!) when a window is maximised.
Anyway, excuse the lousy quality, but I made an animated mockup and filmed it on my phone, lol:
I personally like the adwaita theme . My two dislikes of it are the icon colours and the thickness of the header bar .
The Radiance theme is in need of some love too . Are we going to ship with radiance or would we consider Awaita to be a good maintained replacement for it ?
personally, I don’t like much the orange arrow between the buttons, but maybe it can be replaced with some nicer image.
if I understood correctly, the plan is to work on a dark theme first (as dark as Ambiance was) and then see what happens. Even Adwaita dark is expected to be removed
Why Even Adwaita dark is expected to be removed? In my opinion it is one of the simpler and straight to the point theme. With that kind of dark theme you could focus on your work and avoid eye strain! I’m a one eyed person so this topic for me is highly important ;-). and i still do think that we should keep a complete dark theme, it’s useful as well for artist and video editors. Capture d’écran de 2017-12-20 17-20-12|690x388
Adwaita dark is a good theme too . Who is removing it ? Gnome or Ubuntu ? The global dark theme option is being removed from gnome tweaks .
Why don’t we save energy and tweak adwaita dark and add suru icons to make the new Ubuntu themes ?
Still what will become of radiance ?
