Hi, I'm not sure how to get the theme developers' attention, so I'll try this mailing list. I feel that the new theme is a step backwards in terms of accessibility, making ubuntu harder to use for people with less-than-perfect eye sight, user of high-resolution screens and people who use their laptop in adverse lighting conditions (e.g. sunlight).
There are two main issues with that I have with the current design of the theme. The first issue is the size of window decorations. When increasing the size of the title bar font (or the dpi settings), the window decorations don't scale up accordingly [1]. This makes it unnecessarily hard to hit the close, minimize or maximize button and increases the chances of hitting the wrong one. This is exacerbated by the fact that there is no visual indication of whether the close button is currently pushed down. The rationale for this is supposed to be that metacity doesn't support scaling buttons, but I found this not to be true in my own testing (see [1]). The second issue is contrast: It just doesn't make any sense to me why text should be gray-on-white instead of black-on-white. Having less contrast means you have to crank up display brightness while on battery, wasting precious battery life or causing more eye strain. It is quite shocking to me how much clearer text on the screen becomes if I adjust the colors so that text appears black. This might not be much of a concern on current monitors, which don't have to sacrifice backlight brightness for power consumption, but it is on most laptops. Thanks, Tom [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/light-themes/+bug/532641 -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
