[geomoose-psc] Modernizing GeoMoose UX

[Dan Little]

I think it's entirely fair to not introduce too much in the way of
administrative thrash. Having to port site.css a lot seems like it would be
a total pain. I tend to work with the LESS files and have tried to keep the
selectors more-or-less stable over the years. But the original commits on
the CSS/LESS go back to 2016 and there's a lot more power in vanilla CSS
(ala variables and functions) than there was back-in-the-day.

I think it would be nice to (in a separate version to what we've got in
main) look to hang our hat on a more current design language with a
formalized human interface guideline. (I'm GNOME biased but understand that
reasonable people can disagree.)

I also have some thoughts on moving some of the app.js code back into the
library for things like a collapse-control and possibly a few others. I'll
RFC those ideas some time soon.


On Mon, Oct 12, 2026 at 7:51 PM Eli Adam <eadam at co.lincoln.or.us> wrote:

> 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.
>
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> 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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> *From:* geomoose-psc <geomoose-psc-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of
> Bob Basques via geomoose-psc <geomoose-psc at lists.osgeo.org>
> *Sent:* Friday, October 9, 2026 3:52 PM
> *To:* Dan Little <theduckylittle at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* GeoMOOSE PSC <geomoose-psc at lists.osgeo.org>
> *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
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> 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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