Yaru: New light-blue selection colour: darker blue when on dark background (proposal)

[jlemonde]

I really enjoy the new light-blue selection colour, although I'd preferred a light orange. But in some places such as in Nautilus' path bar, the blue just doesn't match the other colours:

I think that the new light-blue matches pretty well with the orange, but only when it is on a light background, such as in the file-renaming field (white background). Here it is beautiful:

But when it is on a dark background, a light-orange should be a better idea.

Or: put the old orange colour again:

It could also be better if it were like the colour in GNOME's overview:

[Feichtmeier]

Hi @jlemonde
Well, this was a very "hot" topic on the community hub. And this is somehow the solution most people prefer, thus we have gone for this blue.
Concerning the adaption of the shell entries: we haven't talked about that, so thanks for bringing this up! If we would reduce this issue to the shell entries then this would be the wrong repo, though :D

Edit: wait, after re-reading the issue... that's pretty valid, since we've gone for a bit darker blue in the dark variant of this theme and thus we could use this darker blue for the headerbar entries, too. @madsrh would you be okay with this?

[madsrh]

@Feichtmeier Are you asking me, what I think about using blue for white backgrounds and orange on dark backgrounds?

[Feichtmeier]

No: the headerbar entries have a dark background but use the light blue for text selection. In the dark theme we use a darker blue for text selection bcause it looks a bit "sharper" on dark backgrounds. For the same reason I would propose to change the text selection for header bar entries to the same dark blue as we use in the dark variant normal entries text selection

[madsrh]

@Feichtmeier Aaahhh, sorry I didn't see the gif.

Sure, let's give it a try 👍

BTW, while you're tweaking the text colors (again), what do you think about a lighter black for selected text? Is the current Jet?
Below is the same color as the background, but maybe it's a bit too subtle. Perhaps something in between??? 🤷‍♂️

[jlemonde]

Your comboboxentry looks really good :+1:

I enjoy that stronger blue: it seems less weak than the previous one on dark backgrounds. For the text, a black in between should be amazing: the light one in your gif is too light and the strong one seems too bold, in my point of view...

[Feichtmeier]

The text is 5% lighter now and the bg color is the same as in the dark theme now. Ok this way?

[jlemonde]

Yeah! It looks fine. I can't wait to see the change for real.

[madsrh]

+1

[clobrano]

@jlemonde might suggest you to change the title of the bug? It would be helpful to see that it actually proposes a change to the dark variant text selection, more that saying that it looks ugly :)