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.shambr...@canonical.com>: >> 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 <w...@rsb.at> 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 -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
