Okay - this approach (using the Suru template and exporting from there, for the most faithful recreation of the eventual output) gives this look for the launcher:
Recreating it through the Suru template means the standard highlight is too bright, IMO. This is because a background this dark is unusual for Suru. So we could perhaps make the highlight more subtle for just this one icon?
Or would people prefer to keep the bright highlight, because it makes the squircle more defined on the dark launcher?
The colour stands out a bit compared to the rest of the (Suru) colours, but I guess that’s permissible for such a famous third party app?
Note: the colour going a bit naff on the Firefox itself is a result of the upload, it looks like a normal Firefox logo on my computer
Dual tone orange by @jaggers in mockup threads looks much nice. Especially with the fold. I think if the fold is applied vertically, it will be much better.
We discussed two different ideas when talking about this topic and also talking about menus and popups/popovers:
Make it visually easy to understand and obvious for the user when he is interacting with applications and when interacting with the shell, as the visual representation of the “system”/OS/DE
OR
Considering that our target audience is rather the “normal guy” and not the GNOME enthusiast, the urge to see a difference between the “system” and the application could be very little maybe even not existent. Thus, making a visual difference between dialogues of the shell and application dialogues would not be helpful. (The same could be said about the menus by the way. If you take OSX as an example, as far as I’ve investigated there is no visual difference between menus that pop out of the global menu or menus that pop out of anything else in an application.)
->2) is not anything evident or taken out of some data I do not have. It is just a feeling that could be totally wrong
So far from my side, I am still torn myself. Can’t really decide what’s more “correct”. As far as I know, GNOME designers prefer the difference, since the color of the shell is dark, and adwaita is white.
what do you think with a suru bottom not so white and the original icon this combines the icon with a squircle mark without highlighting the background just making it uniform with the other icons
This format with the icons of third parties is what I do in my ubuntu installation and it looks very good, with gimp I did the same
GTK and Shell dialogs design in pure GNOME is nearly same:
C’mon it’s written just a few posts above.
I share @frederik-f 's point of view, I’m not sure what’s the best. I still prefer interactive dialogs buttons over message dialog ones, and in fact at some point we had the same on shell as well.
Font is a different story, it’s likely better to have the same style.
Might be interesting to ask gnome people the reason of these differences, if there are some