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I removed this task from D6929, but D6929 stayed on this task. Sorry for the noise, it was a CTRL+F that went wrong.

I think we could just change the summary from Wine compatibility layer for Windows emulation to something along the lines of Wine compatibility layer for Windows software?

Well actually it is a compatibility layer according to the official site

Also we should have GNU/Linux instead of just Linux, right? /s (Kidding)

Yes, it should still happen, because it hasn't been fixed in slick-greeter yet.

Sorry but I don't agree with these changes:

I would like this variant of Adapta to be included, since the color scheme is one of the reasons I am still sticking with Arc.
Adapta-Eta with a blue color scheme rather than cyan would be awesome.
Edit: I just took a look at the second revision, and I can say that I agree that the contrast is much nicer there in my opinion. though I prefer light themes over dark themes.

In T7180#135517, @Jacalz wrote:

It definitely gives it a bit more contrast to the blue but I think i still prefer the old one. Sorry :I

It definitely gives it a bit more contrast to the blue but I think i still prefer the old one. Sorry :I

Tista sent the following via their Patreon:

With that in mind, I suppose the question is whether or not Solus will move to Tista's separate Adapta redesign project, or continue to use the 3.94 design.

Interesting development on this front. Tista has reverted to 3.94 source, and is likely going to move his redesign to a new project.

@Jacalz Yea if there are issues beyond the color scheme (which doesn't exactly apply to us) then I'd focus more on getting those issues addressed rather than using a fork. Tista has always been responsive to critique and generally speaking quite easy to work with, so I'm not concerned about Adapta heading in a direction that'd conflict with us and/or our pseudo-HIG.

Yeah, the fork is primaily just to keep the old code easy to find and downloadable, I do see tajt a fullt maintained fork isn’t the way to go. Users seem to be complaining about more than just the color scheme at the time but it will be interesting to see what happens next..

While I understand a lot of user's hesitation to adopt the new Adapta theming, it should be noted that we have already updated our colors to Solus blues as of R338:3023926849958b9f42b941c0591f3a9d74b61a3f and therefore makes that argument moot.

Then it seems to be that priority is Hack. Hack is a redesigned Bitstream Vera and DejaVu projects (approx. this should be... pairing). BTW, I love Solus Budgie x) more better than Solus GNOME for me.

Basically, if @ikey is interested in changing it up for Budgie, he's obviously more than welcome to do so. I have no plans on changing the current fonts for GNOME Edition at this moment in time though ?

They're set for different purposes. On the Budgie ISO, the default branding is as follows:

So, what is the priority? Noto Sans or Hack?

Hack is a great monospaced font, but there is no sans serif version...

DoFlicky is being folded into the Software Center in new design. SC tasks being consolidated over to https://github.com/solus-project/solus-sc/issues

A computer is a device. You could then argue if we used words like "computer" or "desktop" people would say, well, mines a laptop, or a tablet. "Device" is an encapsulating term.

Don't take offense, closest category it fits xD

Now I see the black Breeze pointer on the login screen and after logging in, I see the white Mate pointer I've set in Appearance Preferences > Theme > Customize > Pointer.
I thought this would show my custom white Mate pointer at the login screen too.

@Justin Do you think we could have them enabled by default? It won't take too much space on the ISO and really improves the OOTB experience. A few more tweaks and Solus MATE is just as polished as the Martin Wimpress edition :D

There is a minor hack we can apply but it means the potential for mate/budgie artwork packages conflicting

@Justin Any fix to this? I've already added the Bikeshed tag as this is a minor issue but some more polish cannot hurt for the next ISO.

@baimafeima yes I see this too !

Fellow mate, can you reproduce this? :) @mate-user

Resolved in https://github.com/solus-project/budgie-desktop-branding/pull/4

When fine-tuning the next MATE ISO, it may make sense to take a look at this one as well: https://www.reddit.com/r/SolusProject/comments/6lzjug/help_with_caja/

Now that Solus has several different desktop environments available, it would be great to be able to tag issues like this with a DE-specific tag. Would certainly shorten the title and increase visibility for the maintainers.

Marking as resolved. We have since chosen our default wallpapers and updated the cursor theme.

It's already been chosen

I was also thinking Excl_Autumn_Retreat as the default login screen image and the desktop wallpaper image as the lock screen image (though BrittasLake looks a lot better than Excl_Focal_Leaf on the lock screen).

I prefer the DMZ-White cursor theme, particularly on otherwise dark themes. I'm not a fan of how Adwaita is black with a white border on dark backgrounds and white with a black border on light backgrounds. Maybe if it was the other way around, but I'd prefer that my mouse cursor didn't change color at all.

I definitely prefer a black cursor with a thicker outline. I found breeze a lot easier to lose especially when using lighter colored themes.

I personally prefer the Adwaita cursor theme. I think it's better to find on black and white backgrounds

@ikey : You should rename this task into March 2017 Visual Refresh now ;)

I personally prefer the Win-8-NS cursor theme, although some people may not be too keen on something that looks like Microsoft's offering.
Note: It's a bit tricky finding the latest version on gnome-look.com, the other versions don't integrate as well, given that there is missing code(?) or something of the sort.

In T2626#45516, @kyrios123 wrote:

Why not using the same wallpaper for both?
It would help giving a stronger visual identity.

PS: Wouldn't it be good to name the Default theme "Solus" or something ?

Yeah I agree they're related issues

Maybe this still has some relevance to the wallpaper question: https://dev.solus-project.com/T1705

Why not using the same wallpaper for both?
It would help giving a stronger visual identity.

GTK theme isn't changing :)

I'd stick with the Breeze cursor and Arc Darker GTK theme. I wouldn't add new wallpapers to the ISO, but I'd set another default wallpapers. BogFlower for Solus Budgie and Local Leaf for Solus MATE would be good IMO.

Mate edition so far, I've setup using arc red theme and the default cursor for mate. But that's just my setup. As for wallpaper. That's I dunno. So many good options.