[geomoose-psc] Modernizing GeoMoose UX

[Bob Basques]

All,

I think I'm generally in favor of anything that follows the
system preference, I use dark themes whenever possible as well, so . . .
and because you asked . . .

An option. for inverting the map display would be great, especially for
night/dim light viewing, or maybe call it night view?  like so:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/3plhippx4hhhnhv701s5k/main.png?rlkey=icjqk9v6ijwxqodkz6yn74oc6&st=ui8yn3ps&dl=0

I know there are option in chrome and Opera I think to this, even by
default, but I like personally to have a control/button to hit.

bobb







On Thu, Oct 8, 2026 at 9:45 AM Dan Little via geomoose-psc <
geomoose-psc at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> Hey folks,
>
> I did some work to push a human interface guideline compliant version of
> GeoMoose. This, more or less, heavily tweaks the default theme and cleans
> up how the LESS is structured to be easier to stylize and handle light/dark
> modes.
>
> My initial version was based on the GNOME & COSMIC desktops. It's what I
> use, personally, but also I have a preference for it these days. That work
> can be seen here:
>
>  - https://github.com/geomoose/gm3/pull/1044
>
> Jim has some different thoughts (and defaults), so I did a fork of the
> GNOME-inspired version and used the KDE HIG for a run. Those results are
> here:
>
> - https://github.com/geomoose/gm3/pull/1045
>
> A few questions for the larger group:
> 1. Do folks like one or either of these?
> 2. Is adopting a new default style worth the potential disruption?
>
> Please don't try to nit-pick some of the smaller details. This is a
> quick-pass starting point that would take some real user feedback and
> workflow clean up to be totally plausible. We can make some decisions
> ourselves as well to deviate from some of the HIGs if we decided to adopt
> one.
>
> I have a dream where our standard theme is a bit more modern and where we
> tell users "Set this accent color variable(s)" and we do smart things with
> making the theme fit the user's branding better.
>
> Cheers!
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