Flat Decorator and ControlLook

[nephele]

@Starcrasher

Actually, there’s one bug that prevents you to use a too dark colour for panels. It’s the status when you’re copying a file (indicating speed and amount) that is always black. AFAIK, the progress bar has been fixed but not that.

If it is a bug in haiku please open a report.

@Nexus-6

I don’t see how you could “fix” this. Haiku look and feel is designed in a way that is slightly skeumorphic. Less than BeOS but still and it becomes more evident with the a dark colour scheme because the transition of almost all the gradients is quite steep.
They don’t fit well, unfortunately, and we can’t get a flat-ish look with them.

Nobody said that we need a flat look. But if any of the controls fail to meet sufficient contrast in dark mode that is a bug. Not a design decision.
Not that the color scheme you had is a good choice for good contrast, but still.

[Nexus-6]

@bitigchi

I think this flat dark mode is still too dark. It’s like I’m looking at a pitch black

This is due to the colour “theme” and the lack of a background picture not to the look and feel itself.

Look at these two screenshots here:

Haiku

MacOS

My MacOS setup is even darker than Haiku!

[Starcrasher]

The problem with your Haiku theme is really low contrast. Since panels are darker in MacOS theme contrast is better. Fonts are even too bright in some places.

[nephele]

add to this that above Github.com uses their own proper dark theme. But falcon does not support this, so there is some addon that replaces the colors in wierd ways.

WebPositive does support the proper dark mode for webpages.

[PulkoMandy]

@Nexus-6

I don’t see how you could “fix” this. Haiku look and feel is designed in a way that is slightly skeumorphic. Less than BeOS but still and it becomes more evident with the a dark colour scheme because the transition of almost all the gradients is quite steep.
They don’t fit well, unfortunately, and we can’t get a flat-ish look with them.

Yes, we can’t get a flat look from the default control look. That’s why there is a different control look for that now.

But still, that has nothing to do with a dark theme. We could change how the gradients are generated, to make them less steep. In fact there is already a “shine” color in the color preferences, that could be used for this, and so it could be adjusted from the color preferences. But the current look does not use it.

[hey68you]

Loving it - thank you @nhtello - looking much better:
Of course showing it with my HiQDock