Point is, it’s just not feasible. This is the orange use everywhere Ubuntu is; it’s on sites, it’s on forums, it’s at events, it’s in logos, it’s in themes, it’s on discs. Itd be either be inconsistent with the branding, which is feasible, but I imagine the official desktop team would be absoultey completely displeased with, or completely redo merchandise, promo and con materials, site stylesheets, etc. etc., just for a slight hue/saturation change.
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I guess we learned already that this won’t happen. There won’t be any choice that everybody likes as well as there won’t be one that nobody likes.
As per focus/dropback difference, we didn’t make a bold distinction on purpose, we choose dropback colors so that “compared to a in-focus window, it is easy to see which one is in-focus”, since many people work with windows side by side and still need to see all the available colors
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A quick concept I did that is focused on adding more air to the design.
Few notes:
- The typeface I used is Interface
- Based the design around typography
- Added more white space around the elements
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Too much white space is harsh on eyes. Greys are better.
Thanks for the feedback. I strongly agree with this article https://uxplanet.org/the-power-of-whitespace-a1a95e45f82b
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thanks for the mockup, however we’re a bit too ahead now to consider a so big change in our direction 
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Totally agree. I am currently working on a full theme and will fork the original theme and do a proper proposal. What you’ve accomplished already is 10x better than the current UI of Ubuntu 
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You might find useful to look at this as well, if you haven’t already of course
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As the Yaru GDM3 login screen has a gradient from lighter purple to darker purple, we could also make the Plymouth a lighter purple to darker purple. For the GRUB, this may be a bit difficult… We might use an image of the gradient as the background of the GRUB. The transition should be smooth.
We should also make the Plymouth a flat design to fit with the Yaru theme.
Based on the code of /snap/communitheme/current/share/gnome-shell/theme/Communitheme/gnome-shell.css, which is the user select screen, I have found that:
#lockDialogGroup {
background: none;
background-color: none;
background-gradient-direction: vertical;
background-gradient-start: #6D2169;
background-gradient-end: #370026; }
The colours are #6D2169 and #370026.
Plymouth code could be modified:
Window.SetBackgroundTopColor (0.43, 0.13, 0.41); # Nice colour on top of the screen fading to
Window.SetBackgroundBottomColor (0.22, 0.00, 0.15); # an equally nice colour on the bottom
However, this will look really ugly on a smaller display due to the progress-dot-on16 and progress-dot-off16 elements (this will create a purple square)
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Possible end to Yaru? - there’s an increasingly influential strain of GNOME thought suggesting that custom themes should be scrapped and that we’ll all have to use Adwaita (at least by default)… (as I understand it, correct me if I’m wrong)
The post above is by GNOME Foundation member (and Suru designer) @snwh (who I welcome to comment here for further explanation)
https://twitter.com/matthias_clasen/status/1026158779660943360
“matthias_clasen
Antwort an @DanielFore
We are not just going to “drop” themes. What we are talking about is ways for apps to declare that they require a certain style (or styles).”
Was bit emotional over this myself (mostly about that vogue guy). But I think this was more of a personal idea from snwh than the opinion of all gnome designers and I think there are still some years to go until those ideas could become reality.
But let’s please not have the same discussion again here. I think everyone in here loves a ubuntu specific theme and let’s hope that we will receive support for this desire still in the future.
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Considering my experience, you’re going to have hard times with all this orange 
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The Yaru team is happy to announce a new stable release!
This week update brings the following
- sync with upstream content
- updates necessary to be default theme in next release
- improved Nautilus secondary label color
- reduced icon size in GTK2 (except in the toolbar, to keep it aligned with GTK3)
- completed the alignment of our slider set to a shared style
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Why the theme for 18.10 will not be a snap?
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@didrocks I was thinking the same, can’t there be a baked-in snap like the current GNOME app ones (like System Monitor)?
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I have an addiction to these monochromic UIs but you are right. Too much orange isn’t good. But if you think about it 90% of app icons are blue mainly because it’s social network’s fav color
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Yep, but there’s a reason why social netwoks like blue
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The Yaru team is happy to announce a new stable release!
Quite a full week of changes the last one, here’s the list:
- button-box (e.g. Gnome Software) took a dedicated style, instead of mimic stack switcher. This was necessary to avoid problems with complex button-box hierarchies.
- cleaner default button indication
- improved Ubitquity style for a cleaner experience installing the next Ubuntu 18.10
- fixed switches color in GDM (this was from a new contributor )
- better backdrop infobar
- better backdrop borders in dark version
- stop loading button in Nautilus (when loading big folders) is now neat and visible
- fixes on GDM entries and button
- fixed selection ring transition in combobox entry+button
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