[geomoose-psc] Modernizing GeoMoose UX

[Eli Adam]

A few questions for the larger group:
1. Do folks like one or either of these?
I'm not sure I have the style awareness to offer useful feedback.  Yes, I like these slightly more than the existing, probably GNOME over Breeze.


2. Is adopting a new default style worth the potential disruption?
These seem like slim (see above, I may not have the style awareness for this) improvements which suggests only paying minimal costs (disruption).  Chris makes a good point on site.css and admin changes.




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.

I'm aware of the potential value here but again not sure I have useful context or feedback.

Best regards, Eli



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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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