[Qt-creator] Qt Creator flat style UI design + new Light theme

[Tobias Hunger]

Hi Diana,

I personally like your designs, but the flat style has one severe 
limitation: It does not support the color tinting that the manhattan 
style supports. Try the tinting by changing the color in 
Tools>Options>Environment>General>Color or wherever the settings are on 
Mac), and note that the color is saved as part of the session state.

I use different colors for all my sessions. This enables me to see at a 
glance which session I have currently open, which is important to me 
since I do leave creator running all the time and switch between 
sessions a lot.

In fact my wife is joking that the only way for her to tell whether I 
work or play on my computer at home is by looking at the color of the 
interface in front of me:-) The flat mode does not support color 
tinting at all at this time, so that will take some work to make it 
useful to me.

I am a bit afraid that this feature is going to get lost with your 
designs. Both themes appear to assume a certain background color for 
the UI elements. The flat and uni-colored icons will also make it much 
harder to change the color and keep the icons visible. Maybe we can 
just draw the icons in the same color we use for the font. We have code 
that picks a font color with a good contrast to the background color. 
That would also reduce the need to ship two sets of icons for the two 
themes.

Best Regards,
Tobias

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On Mo, Feb 9, 2015 at 5:09 , de Sousa Diana 
<diana.desousa at theqtcompany.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> What do you think about the idea of updating the Qt Creator GUI with 
> a more contemporary flat style design, simplifying and unifying all 
> UI icons? And adding a Light theme in addition to the current Default 
> and Dark themes?
> 
> I have published to Qt Blog examples of what these new designs could 
> look like. They are an early stage concept, so it would be great to 
> get useful feedback from the community to take this forward! Please 
> take a look at them at:
> 
> http://blog.qt.io/blog/2015/02/09/qt-creator-flat-style-ui-design-new-light-theme/
> 
> Cheers,
> Diana
> 
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> Diana de Sousa
> Senior Graphic Designer - The Qt Company