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[Randall Ross  <randall@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I have to agree with Peter. The blue looks like a design oversight. Upon
first seeing it my first instinct was to file a bug.

There are colours related to orange that could have the same
"attention-getting" effect and that do not collide with the brand colours.

How about a glowing orange? i.e. something that has a lot more yellow in
it. It could resemble the colour of an incandescent light-bulb, almost
yellow with an orange hue, and bright enough to be obvious.

Cheers,
Randall.

On 04/11/2016 01:42 PM, Peter Bittner wrote:
> After some days with OTA-10 I must admit I have a hard time accepting
> light-blue is the new orange.
>
> When the security bugfix release was installed today my phone rebooted
> and there it was again, the good old Ubuntu splash screen in violet
> shades and an orange progress bar, and later orange progress dots.
> That was a relief. For a few moments.
>
> Really, the light blue doesn't fit. It doesn't fit with the brown /
> violet theme of Ubuntu in general. It's an awkward color, cold and
> without life. Sorry to say, but pretty much the opposite of "Ubuntu,
> humanity to others". (Some may not agree, but I feel it's worth
> defending a Status Quo that was "working perfect".)
>
> I really waited for quite some time before expressing an opinion about
> the color. I thought I may get used to used to it or "give it a
> chance", but I think it's also fair to say the "truth" (as in "true
> feelings"). I don't want to hurt anyone, but a feedback should go to
> you guys and ladies. Look at the color palette on [1]: The light-blue
> is the one the strikes out as totally off-topic, followed (at some
> remarkable distance already) by green and even solid-red. It's about
> feeling harmony. No, that's not working out. That's not the beauty
> that the press was always appraising about Ubuntu Touch (which I felt
> almost exaggerated, but obviously it's a value worth conserving). This
> color palette must be revised.
>
> Sorry for the rough speech. Please go over it again, discuss it. Please!
>
> Thank you for your understanding,
> Peter
>
>
> 2016-04-07 12:25 GMT+02:00 Rae Shambrook <rae.shambrook@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> This is Rae from the design team. I understand the new palette may take some
>> getting used to. But what we've tried to do is create a colour palette that
>> works in a smarter way and is more robust. If you haven't seen it already,
>> here is a breakdown of how the new palette works:
>> https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/apps/qml/tutorials/ubuntu-ui-toolkit-palette/
>>
>> As for your concerns about components being blue rather than orange, the
>> reason why we have removed a lot of orange from the UI is that we now want
>> it to be a focus state and blue is meant to be the selected/active state.
>> Before we had orange doing both these functions and each colour should have
>> it's own meaning. And we feel the blue works better for the selected/active
>> state as it feels more intuitive as a colour representing activity, while
>> orange could sometimes be confusing as what it's supposed to represent. So
>> basically, we've tried to make all our colours semantic.  While orange is
>> still our brand colour, we want to use it in a more concise way, while other
>> colours take on more meaning in the UI, and hopefully, this will make it a
>> lot more intuitive for the user.
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 10:22 AM, war <war@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>> today I received OTA 10.
>>>
>>>
>>> I have just one complaint (well, suggestion):
>>>
>>> The color of the progress bar and of certain elements (namely the
>>> selection of telephone SIMs for outgoing calls).
>>>
>>> I know this seems ridiculous to complain about. But for me, color is a
>>> significant indicator and as I have gotten used to the orange the blue
>>> is harder to read/recognize and it is a break in visual information
>>> transfer.
>>>
>>> Maybe you want to reconsider changing the color scheme.
>>>
>>> Other than that, I am pretty impressed (My Android phone broke on
>>> Upgrade to V6).
>>>
>>> Is there an official way to give feedback (there used to be a feeback
>>> app which I cannot find anymore)?
>>>
>>> Wolf Rogner