Bug #11789

Have GNOME with a black theme on Tails Stretch

Added by sajolida 2016-09-11 03:20:26 . Updated 2016-11-17 15:10:48 .

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
intrigeri
Category:
Target version:
Tails_3.0
Start date:
2016-09-11
Due date:
% Done:

100%

Feature Branch:
feature/11789-black-theme
Type of work:
Code
Blueprint:

Starter:
Affected tool:
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Description

In Tails 2.0 we have a grey theme from GNOME Classic. The default GNOME theme is black and I think it looks more modern (which I could argue is important for a state-of-the-art security tool). Changing the look could also mark the occasion and visibilize that we’re doing shitloads of work.

For 2.0 I raised my concern too late (Feature #7557#note-8) but I’m now reading in
https://tails.boum.org/contribute/reports/SponsorS/2015/2016_08/#index4h2 that screenshots are being removed from the test suite, so maybe switching too black for 3.0 would not require much work. It could even be now the time to discuss this…

But hey, developers, take it easy :) (I will)

So, how hard would it be to switch to the default black theme for 3.0?

This would be replacing GNOME Classic with GNOME Shell with its default theme + Applications menu + Places status indicator + Window list.

This co

Files

black.png (188342 B) sajolida, 2016-09-26 08:31:41
extension.png (108888 B) sajolida, 2016-11-07 14:56:23

Subtasks

Related issues

Blocks Tails - Bug #11742: Update doc screenshots for 3.0 Resolved 2016-08-29

History

#1 Updated by sajolida 2016-09-11 03:20:42

  • Target version set to Tails_3.0

#2 Updated by intrigeri 2016-09-11 04:35:38

  • Assignee set to sajolida
  • QA Check set to Info Needed

Is the proposal about entirely switching from GNOME’s Classic mode, to GNOME’s default mode?

Or is it instead about creating a new, hybrid mode, that would be essentially the Classic mode modified to use the black color scheme that’s used when running GNOME in default (non-Classic) mode?

I guess that you mean the latter, but I’m not 100% sure I got the proposal right.

#3 Updated by sajolida 2016-09-12 11:01:39

  • Description updated
  • Assignee deleted (sajolida)
  • QA Check deleted (Info Needed)

Sorry for being unclear regarding the implementation. I thought this would be replacing GNOME Classic with GNOME Shell with its default theme + Applications menu + Places status indicator + Window list + Workspace indicator.

#4 Updated by intrigeri 2016-09-12 11:31:33

  • Type of work changed from Research to Test

> Sorry for being unclear regarding the implementation. I thought this would be replacing GNOME Classic with GNOME Shell with its default theme + Applications menu + Places status indicator + Window list + Workspace indicator.

Thanks! So next step is to test if this combination works at all (I don’t know if the Classic mode’s extensions blend nicely into the regular GNOME Shell mode). This might be easier to do on some non-Tails Debian testing/sid system.

#5 Updated by sajolida 2016-09-13 03:52:41

  • Assignee set to sajolida

#6 Updated by sajolida 2016-09-26 08:32:29

I did that on a Debian Jessie and here is the result.

I still don’t have a sid system (the VM I tried to setup crashes with “Oh no!”).

I’ll try to ask some sid-friend to do this for me.

#7 Updated by sajolida 2016-09-26 08:32:51

  • Description updated

#8 Updated by sajolida 2016-11-07 14:56:25

A screenshot of how this looks in Debian Jessie.

#9 Updated by sajolida 2016-11-16 10:46:37

  • blocks Bug #11742: Update doc screenshots for 3.0 added

#10 Updated by anonym 2016-11-16 14:54:55

If this is gonna happen, I’d like it to happen ASAP (preferably yesterday) since I will start updating the test suite images we cannot get rid of soon, and will have to redo most of them if the theme is changed.

As for a dark theme, I’m a fan! +1

#11 Updated by sajolida 2016-11-16 22:29:53

  • Status changed from Confirmed to In Progress
  • QA Check set to Ready for QA
  • Feature Branch set to feature/11798-black-theme
  • Type of work changed from Test to Code

#12 Updated by sajolida 2016-11-17 12:57:42

  • Assignee changed from sajolida to intrigeri
  • Feature Branch changed from feature/11798-black-theme to feature/11789-black-theme

#13 Updated by intrigeri 2016-11-17 15:10:25

  • Status changed from In Progress to Resolved
  • % Done changed from 0 to 100

Applied in changeset commit:d4cee685901291a33e1473d11b7dcff7b5b0697b.

#14 Updated by intrigeri 2016-11-17 15:10:48

  • Subject changed from Consider having a black theme on Tails Stretch to Have GNOME with a black theme on Tails Stretch
  • QA Check changed from Ready for QA to Pass