Linux Lite 3.0 Beta Released

[Duckeenie]

The default borderless windows look fine against the default colourful background. But when dialogs are open on top of white-background documents, or even other dialog boxes, the result is visually confusing. A border, even just a single pixel, is necessary. And don't make the border lines almost invisible by making them a very light colour. Tabs within dialogs have this problem. Open File Manager Preferences, for example. It's not clear visually which of the tabs (Display, Side Pane, Behavior, Advanced) is actually selected! On the Behavior tab, the non-selected radio buttons are nearly invisible. Fortunately, selecting the label selects the button, too. But the text just floating in space like that doesn't even look like a control.

GUI designers need to remember that their users are not all 25-year-olds with perfect vision.

I have not yet tried the alternative Appearance settings, which could be quite time-consuming. How the two or three blocks of colour preceding the Style name relate to the Desktop appearance is not clear to me. Are washed-out blues and greys the only choices? It might be simpler to provide some way to directly select border thickness/colour, header size/colour, etc.

Despite the preceding gripes, Linux Lite 3.0 looks like a nice upgrade from v2.8. There's a good selection of up-to-date applications. I have installed the beta on a VM to try it out.

I agree entirely. I switched the theme pretty quickly after noticing this.

In addition why has Greybird become Pinkbird? I mean it doesn't actually look bad (I'm using it now) but it does limit our colour options between themes somewhat.