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[Kristijan Žic <kristijan.zic@xxxxxxxxx>]

I started a few discussions about this thing when the new colors and
indicator panel landed in rc-proposed and I don't think anyone really likes
the new design direction.

Someone from ubuntu then said that it was just a bug but it doesn't seem so
right now. Also if they had to change the colour from that beautiful
orange, why in the world have they chosen blue?? Blue is the most generic
color there is!

Also they say that it's just for focusing selection or something but I see
blue now as a dominant color. There is more "WINDOWS" blue then the
"UBUNTU" orange. Don't even let me start about the launcher color change
from black to gray. Why? Just why? Everything was fine, and everyone loved
the colors from which some become iconic like ubuntu orange and purple. And
now instead of making clock app design more clear and visible they change
the colour palette and bring blue as dominant color.

They should be designing more and better elements for apps and app
developers. May I just ask why are all apps white and plain?

Also there is the clock app. How are we supposed to see that clock?? It's
so weird that I can't even describe it. Sure it looks cool when you really
think about it but it's not useable nonetheless. On a sunny day you can't
see anything. Same goes for the indicator panel. The colours were better
when it had the orange line on the bottom. I could live with the orange
line but hardly with gray indicator icons on a gray background.

On Tue, 12 Apr 2016 11:35 am Alan Bell, <alanbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>
> On 12/04/16 09:52, Nathan Haines wrote:
> >
> > Hamlindigo Blue comes immediately to mind. :)  In any case, the bug
> > doesn't concern me--"navigation" is a very old metaphor used as
> > concerns the World Wide Web.
> yeah, but an orange compass needle pointing north east on a blue map
> background is a pretty specific interpretation of the metaphor.
> >
> > No, I think this is the usual opacity from the Design Team.  They made
> > some major strides towards transparency for a year or two, and then
> > retreated again.  It's disappointing, but it's a matter of habit--it's
> > rare that design decisions are discussed or even pre-broadcast.  And
> > even more common that they're not.  The rebranding for Ubuntu 10.04
> > LTS was a giant surprise, and that had to happen in steps.  But was
> > the font story ever fascinating.  And illustrative--the reason they
> > held the actual font files back so long was that once you release
> > something, it gets used immediately.
> yeah, bringing in the font was cool. Still use it a lot.
> >
> > A hard decision, but the right one.  No telling if that holds true
> > this time.  In any case, the Design Team has done wonderful things and
> > it's not too late for them to let us in on the secret.  I think they
> > just need to get back in the habit.
> yeah, hope so, this is a very strange one, they have made a change
> (probably, unless it is an error) that needs to be communicated widely
> and definitively but that isn't happening, all the apps on the phone
> that use an orange nobody is entirely sure what orange to use. They
> don't even need to say why it is changing, just be clear that it has (or
> hasn't)
>
> Alan.
>
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