I asked the community team here https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-community-team/2016-April/thread.html and there was a bit of a response from some folk closer to it, but no actual answers other than it was an intentional change. There is a bug for the colour change documentation here https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-branding/+bug/1573543 I also noticed that on the phone the HTML5 ui toolkit uses #dd4814 still so QML apps use one orange, HTML5 apps use another. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-html5-theme/+bug/1572588
Personally I am not bothered which colour it is, as long as things match! Alan On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 10:12 PM, Peter Bittner <peter.bitt...@gmx.net> wrote: > Hi there, > > is there any feedback from the Canonical design team? > > 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. > > 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 <rand...@ubuntu.com>: > > 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 > > -- > 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 >
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