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[Michael Zanetti <michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 25.04.2016 23:12, Peter Bittner wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> is there any feedback from the Canonical design team?

Rae already replied, didn't she?

> 
> 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.

Sorry to hear that you're struggling so much with blue. But I'm afraid
the old colors won't come back.

It's open source after all, if you *really* can't stand it, you can edit
/usr/lib/arm-gnueabi-hf/qt5/qml/Ubuntu/Components/Themes/Ambiance/1.3/Palette.qml
and change the colors yourself in there...

> 
> 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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