https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=370465
--- Comment #9 from Nate Graham <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Kai Uwe Broulik from comment #8) > > A colored square behind the running and active program gets a background > > color equal to "Selection Background" from the color theme > > We had exactly what you suggest for a while and then it was changed back to > line art. Can we stop randomly changing theme whenever someone comes by and > doesn't like something unless it actually comes enclosed with a 20 page > empirical study made in a lab or something? For me it is not personal preference; it's a matter of usability and visual communication: - Using a thin gray or blue line to denote what's running and active (respectively) is challenging to visually distinguish at a glance. - Because a different background color is already used for minimized windows/apps, not doing the same for running or active windows/apps visually communicates to the user that it's more important to be able to tell when a window or app is minimized than it is to tell when it's running or that it's the active window, which seems odd. Given that we already had the requested design in the past, I'd be interested in knowing why it was changed to the current design. If the reason was because the visual designers wanted it to look more "modern", "flat", "minimalistic", or "material", then I would suggest that the onus should have been on *them* to include the requested 20-page lab study. :) -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
