[Visual Consistency Issue] Make workspace thumbnails have sharper edges on Gnome 40

[Uldreth]

Reporter Info

• Materia version: v20210322, Materia-Dark shell theme
• GTK3 version: 3.24.27
• Distribution (and version): Fedora Workstation 34 (Beta)
• Desktop environment (and version): Gnome Shell 40.0
• Related application (and version): -

Actual Issue

Gnome with the default theme (especially in ver 40+) embraces an aesthetic heavily involving rounded corners. By contrast the Materia theme has much sharper edges. Therefore it is visually inconsistent to have the sharper edges of the Materia theme together with the rather emphasized rounded corners of the workspace thumbnails in the redesigned Activities Overview.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Run Gnome 40
2. Enable the Materia shell theme or one of the variants.
3. Go into the activities overview
4. When compared with the default, the dash, the search prompt etc. have sharp corners while the workspace thumbnail is rather rounded.

[nana-4]

Thanks for the suggestion.

Unfortunately, the corner radius of the big workspace is hard-coded and not themeable.

The good news is there is a merge request in upstream that makes it themeable.

For the time being, we might want to make the corner radii of the dash and search entry more rounded, though.