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[Alan Bell <alanbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I asked the community team here
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-community-team/2016-April/thread.html
and there was a bit of a response from some folk closer to it, but no
actual answers other than it was an intentional change. There is a bug for
the colour change documentation here
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-branding/+bug/1573543
I also noticed that on the phone the HTML5 ui toolkit uses #dd4814 still so
QML apps use one orange, HTML5 apps use another.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-html5-theme/+bug/1572588

Personally I am not bothered which colour it is, as long as things match!

Alan

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 10:12 PM, Peter Bittner <peter.bittner@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> is there any feedback from the Canonical design team?
>
> I'd really really love to see the original Ubuntu colors come back.
> Even reverting would be fine. An OTA-11 with still the blueish colors
> will make me suffer.
>
> Has there any decision been taken, or at least discussions been had?
>
> Would be lovely to hear from you guys and gals,
> Peter
>
>
> 2016-04-11 23:04 GMT+02:00 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
> >
> >
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