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On 02/21/2014 02:47, Sam Hulick wrote:
That is exactly what I want to see implemented in ubuntu "*make it an option*" so if people want to work in an invariant like one or the other he should have a choice but nonetheless I think that feature should be implemented because I loose to much time in navigating thru tabs. and if I will get a small subconscious help I Will take it .On 2/20/14 2:35 PM, Levan wrote:"Sure it might not look great" - That's not really fair to the general user base or overall design goals of Ubuntu. It should and can look great and still be highly usable. But that's the challenge of good UI/UX design, isn't it? :) I'd say if people insist having colored tabs, make it an option, and one that's not activated by default.On 02/20/2014 17:45, Evan Huus wrote:On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 6:26 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Just Like I mentioned in my first post I think we should make colourful tabs something like this-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 forAmbiance, 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. Evanhttp://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.Evan: I don't think darkening the current tab is standard. Computer users are used to seeing things light up when active, not the opposite. Just a couple examples:Firefox: http://i.imgur.com/1JnmWHX.jpg Thunderbird: http://i.imgur.com/GzcDajA.jpg OS X Mavericks: http://i.imgur.com/Ju5Pkcz.jpgAn important aspect of UX is keeping in line (to some extent) with what people find familiar.-Sam
If you want to experience something similar you can try out this firefox addon
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/colorfultabs/
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