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[Levan <levanchelidze@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 02/20/2014 17:45, Evan Huus wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 6:26 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > Sam Hulick wrote on 18/02/14 23:57:
> > >  From a design standpoint, I have to disagree with multi-color tabs.
> > > For Ubuntu it would be a step backwards, IMO, in trying to achieve
> > > a cleaner, more modern look, which I know is one of their goals
> > > lately.
> > It's a good exercise, whenever tempted to describe an interface as
> > "clean" or "modern", to try being more specific. ("Modern" in
> > particular is a kind of fallacious appeal to novelty.)
> >
> > One specific problem with multi-colored tabs is that they would
> > often be the most colorful thing on the screen, while being one of the
> > least important things on the screen.
> >
> > > My suggestion would be to thicken the borders and/or shadows
> > > between tabs to make them more distinct. Or possibly dim all but
> > > the selected tab. In your first screenshot, it's visually
> > > difficult to tell at a glance what my current tab is. There needs
> > > to be some way to call out that tab.
> > This is "Difficult to distinguish which tab is selected"
> > <http://launchpad.net/bugs/762349>. It's not a problem for Radiance,
> > where inactive tabs are darker. I don't know how it could be fixed for
> > Ambiance, where the active tab is already nearly black. Mockups welcome!
> In the development version of Ambiance (running the latest 14.04 dev
> version) the tabs are white and the active tab is nearly
> indistinguishable even to my relatively good eyes. See, for example,
> the screenshot in comment #14 of bug #762349. Simply darkening the
> active tab (or adding an Ubuntu-orange highlight stripe or something)
> is quite feasible and would alleviate much of the problem.
>
> Evan
Just Like I mentioned in my first post I think we should make colourful 
tabs something like this

http://i.imgur.com/w2iNzJj.png   or http://i.imgur.com/0KvwSmO.png

because It takes me more time then I want to spend on my tabs.

 Sure it might not look great but I will take productivity over looks.

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