Call for participation: an ubuntu default theme lead by the community?

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:

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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?

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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 :slight_smile:

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Like someone else in the mockup thread, I’m going to also say it’s probably a good idea to contact Mozilla directly for trademark clarification.

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This is my choice :heart:

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Yes, we’ll have to :slight_smile: Would be good to agree our “Plan A” and then I guess we can show them our preferred mockup.

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If you are using a full logo, I think a lighter background will be better

Grey background in mockup no.2 looks much better than the shades of blue used so far

If I could vote I would choose this one:

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For me it’s firefoxy enough and very Suru :wink:

(Logo adapted by @madsrh I think)

Maybe one could play with different shades of blue but the idea is convincing…

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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.

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I’m going to try some more versions tonight and svgs of the orange and blue glyph one too.

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This one looks great. Reverse the gradient, darker yellow on top please…

Orange one looks nice too :+1:

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GTK and Shell dialogs are slightly different. Why not make them the same?

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We discussed two different ideas when talking about this topic and also talking about menus and popups/popovers:

  1. 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

  1. 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.

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GTK and Shell dialogs design in pure GNOME is nearly same:

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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

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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

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remember this are just models with design flaws

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I also suggested such an idea, but it is difficult to implement, since the GNOME Shell can’t automatically insert icons into forms.

Gnome has 2 different gtk dialogs, one is the “message dialog”, which is the one you reported, the other one is the “interactive dialog”

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at some point we decided to use the same style for GTK dialogs and choose the latter.

How does this relate to Shell dialogs?

Because you said that in adwaita dialogs are similar in gtk and shell, while in gtk there are two different types of dialogs

Shell uses dialogs similar to GTK’s MessageDialog. I said that a Shell dialogs in Yaru theme must also look like the GTK’s MessageDialog.

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

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