Cura: CURA 2.7 [idea]

[darkdvd]

Some shadow between menus and the background in the "dark" theme will be great !

[darkdvd]

[Ghostkeeper]

Indeed, and it would have to be themeable.

[Ghostkeeper]

Our project manager just removed this from our planning because it's older than 12 weeks.

[ChrisTerBeke]

There's a new design since 3.0 in which the dark theme menu's are fixed as well.

[Ghostkeeper]

What do you mean by "fixed"? It is not yet possible to have shadows there.

[ChrisTerBeke]

Personally I'm not a fan of drop shadows. The issue is that there's not enough contrast between sidebar/topbar/toolbar and 3D viewer background. Maybe toning down the background color a bit will help for the contract without needing drop shadows. We don't use drop shadows anywhere else in the design of Cura.

[darkdvd]

Come on, man! It's time to make CURA sexy!

[ianpaschal]

As part of our new ticket handling strategy, we voted as a team on the likelihood of fixing this issue. Unfortunately, we’ve decided that we will not take time to fix it, and are marking it as Status: Won’t Fix/Do and closing the issue.

[darkdvd]

:-(

[ianpaschal]

Cura 4.0 is on the radar and will likely involve lots of UI reworks (including, I hope, a better theming system). In light of that we're not going to invest much time in modifying the UI unless it's to accommodate bug fixes or new features until then. Sorry!

[ChrisTerBeke]

Please use QtQuick2 with reusable components :)

[ianpaschal]

You know I will, Chris. ❤️

[ianpaschal]

Also @darkdvd, we recently hired another designer and the designers have been discussing how to show more love for the dark theme so certainly by 4.0 you should expect "sexiness."