💻 🐧🪟 🍏 Make desktop clients look more native

[marcoambrosini]

• Introduce transparency
• Adjust button style to be native (basic button look, only slight rounded corners, not pill-style, no color)

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Curent Windows	Other Windows example	Proposed

additional ideas:

• adjust Font to use native font
• also use default font sizes
• add backdrop shadow
• use monochrome icons instead of colorful ones?
• use native icons if there are some
• make search bar more round, e.g. like this:
• make the dropdowns more rounded, look more native, e.g. like this: (also all items usually have icons)
• the dropdown is usually rather 3 dots:

[camilasan]

@tobiasKaminsky ^^

[ostasevych]

Have you tried to add showMainDialogAsNormalWindow=true key to the nextcloud.cfg file?

[marcoambrosini]

Have you tried to add showMainDialogAsNormalWindow=true key to the nextcloud.cfg file?

This seems to only add a title bar to the window, which is not what we want, but thanks @ostasevych

[marcoambrosini]

To be defined in the 24/04 call

• Qt6 upgrade: what will we get out of the box without changing anything?
• Time, when will this upgrade happen
• Which components would be native and which ones should we work on
• What other input is needed from the design team
• Design review call after Qt6 upgrade?

[marcoambrosini]

Kickoff call outcome:

@claucambra will prepare a PoC of the client and strip down all custom styles.
Focus is on Mac and Windows for now.

Linux will have KDE styles for KDE and Material for the rest.

We'll review this in person during the company week. Exact date and time TBD

[camilasan]

@claucambra will prepare a PoC of the client and strip down all custom styles.
Focus is on Mac and Windows for now.

I am guessing the PoC didn't happen yet or?

[claucambra]

@claucambra will prepare a PoC of the client and strip down all custom styles.
Focus is on Mac and Windows for now.

I am guessing the PoC didn't happen yet or?

it needs to be scheduled, I am currently assigned to macOS VFS related tasks

[camilasan]

it needs to be scheduled, I am currently assigned to macOS VFS related tasks

So that is a no :) I am asking because I was assigned to it.

[camilasan]

• Before the idea was to remove all custom components and use Qt6 components to check how that would look (PoC).
• After talking to @tobiasKaminsky yesterday and to @marcoambrosini today (June 14): we think the best approach is to start the project by focusing on smaller tasks (split the issue due to current work load):
  1. transparency
  2. use native font
  3. use native icons
  4. use native buttons
• Now check what @jancborchardt thinks of it (?)
• Next we finally move every custom component to Qt6 components.

[jancborchardt]

After talking to @tobiasKaminsky yesterday and to @marcoambrosini today (June 14): we think the best approach is to start the project by focusing on smaller tasks (split the issue due to current work load):

• transparency
• use native font
• use native icons
• use native buttons

@camilasan yes, this is what I’ve been saying from the beginning, so I agree. :) See in the original issue:

Introduce transparency
Adjust button style to be native (basic button look, only slight rounded corners, not pill-style, no color)