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elementary / wingpanel

Stylish top panel that holds indicators and spawns an application launcher
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Change color depending on dark/light style when translucency is disabled #389

Open garnetsky opened 3 years ago

garnetsky commented 3 years ago

Proposal

Hey guys, I hope you're all doing well. So I just wanted suggest what if we made the Wingpanel match the dock instead of black when panel translucency is off or when a window is maximized for better consistency in the UI.

Demo

Wingpanel Black

Wingpanel Edit

Blast-City commented 3 years ago

Hi.

Could you check elementary/stylesheet#324. Is it the same issue?

If yes, please read https://github.com/elementary/stylesheet/issues/324#issuecomment-392411728 to see why the Dock remains white even when the Wingpanel changes color and please close this issue.

Thanks.

garnetsky commented 3 years ago

Hello. Just to be clear this is not an issue but a design change proposal. In settings you have the option to disable panel translucency as shown in this screenshot:

Settings

And here's how it looks like in elementary OS 5.1.7 Hera:

Current

I was just suggesting what if the made the Wingpanel a greyish gradient color that matches the dock instead of black I think it looks better and it gives me old school OS X vibes here's the example from OS X Mountain Lion:

Mountain Lion

I made an edit on GIMP to see what it would look like if we implemented a same design on elementary OS here's the picture:

Wingpanel Edit

garnetsky commented 3 years ago

Or if you guys want the leave the Wingpanel black so it fades with the display bezel when panel translucency is off or a window is maximized we can add an option for the user to choose a color for the panel.