[geomoose-psc] Modernizing GeoMoose UX

[Christopher Hughes]

I like the Breeze one a bit more. It seems more consistent, and seems more like a cleaned up version of the current UI, rather than a significant deviation.

In general I'm a bit concerned about significant css changes, unless there's obvious benefit, because if the admin has customized their own site.css they often have to go through and revise or redo everything (I already have a bunch of changes staged for 3.15.3 to incorporate some of the changes that are in the beta).

Would there be a way for the admin to configure the light vs dark modes specifically? (other than forcing one or the other). One of my concerns would be making a change that looks great in light mode but bad in dark mode.

I do like adding more keyboard navigation options (like F9 closes the sidebar, Esc closes drop-downs (though ideally you'd also be able to click the drop-down again or click away from it to close it, rather than needing to hit esc)).

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From: geomoose-psc <geomoose-psc-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Bob Basques via geomoose-psc <geomoose-psc at lists.osgeo.org>
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Subject: Re: [geomoose-psc] Modernizing GeoMoose UX

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<mailto: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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