I think this is a big accessibility issue. Please let tabs be tabs. This design seems too similar to Firefox's new design where it's hard to tell which tab is active (specially if you have only two open). I feel like tabs should be attached to the viewport/content otherwise they look like buttons where my intuition is to click on an active to tab to activate it
Consider having just two of them. The one which is active actually seems like a button that demands attention. It's basic design stuff. Tabs denote choices between active viewports, it should be unambiguous always which one is active. These hovering tabs are more like buttons which intuitively ask to be clicked
Try looking at the comparison screenshots in this repo. Or look up some images of firefox australis. You'll see how tabs are actually behaving like tabs and are denoting clearly which one is active by linking itself naturally to the viewport
Because the programming language I actually know is python, in c++ I'm currently barely above the „hello world”-level. It also annoys me, but at the moment I haven't yet figured a way out to align it properly, as soon as I do, I'll promise that I will align it
Lightly half works for me on Plasma 6 following instructions on the qt6 version on GitHub. The window decorations and Lightly-related aspects of the plasma theme work, but I can't apply the application style.
I'm not familiar with gentoo's packaging system, so I can't tell you what command should you use, but if you find a way to install it properly, you can help the project by writing a segment to the readme about the installing of dependencies in gentoo
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I think this is a big accessibility issue. Please let tabs be tabs. This design seems too similar to Firefox's new design where it's hard to tell which tab is active (specially if you have only two open). I feel like tabs should be attached to the viewport/content otherwise they look like buttons where my intuition is to click on an active to tab to activate it
I personally prefer this look. Reminds me of a task bar.
in what way is this an accessability issue, it just seems to be a minor visual stylization change?
Consider having just two of them. The one which is active actually seems like a button that demands attention. It's basic design stuff. Tabs denote choices between active viewports, it should be unambiguous always which one is active. These hovering tabs are more like buttons which intuitively ask to be clicked
https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix
Try looking at the comparison screenshots in this repo. Or look up some images of firefox australis. You'll see how tabs are actually behaving like tabs and are denoting clearly which one is active by linking itself naturally to the viewport
Edit: https://github.com/Glitchcode2447/Firefox-Australis-Theme
it seems more like a radio button describing where you are and where you can go, which is just slightly more abstract than tabs.
Because it works like that, but in the traditional way, not all corners are rounded, and there's no margin in the bottom.
No hating on you, but floating tabs really don't sit well with me, to the point I use CSS to revert them to regular tabs in Firefox lol
It seems like most people don't like it, especially on reddit, where they even seem to hate it.
It's like floating tabs in Firefox, which I still hate to the bone.
Why isn't this aligned?
Because the programming language I actually know is python, in c++ I'm currently barely above the „hello world”-level. It also annoys me, but at the moment I haven't yet figured a way out to align it properly, as soon as I do, I'll promise that I will align it
Looks great 👍
Thanks!
Lightly half works for me on Plasma 6 following instructions on the qt6 version on GitHub. The window decorations and Lightly-related aspects of the plasma theme work, but I can't apply the application style.
What os do you use?
KDE Neon
The best I can say is to try installing these as dependencies, because I'm starting to get lost in the ubuntu based distros different package sources
I now found a way to properly install it onto KDE neon, now a fully working guide is on the readme if you're still interested:
https://github.com/Bali10050/Lightly/#KDE-neon
What distro do you have?
You should try installing these dependencies:
I'm not familiar with gentoo's packaging system, so I can't tell you what command should you use, but if you find a way to install it properly, you can help the project by writing a segment to the readme about the installing of dependencies in gentoo
Looks amazing! But the tab could be connected to the page, I agree
Love it, you should probably rename your fork to something like lighter or idk bulb?
I was thinking about „darkly”, or something like „nightly”, but I like your „bulb” idea, it's funny
yeah floating tabs are nice
Thanks!
I like it!
Thanks!
Could call the fork "nightly" lol
I was thinking about „darkly”, but that's a great one too
I'll try renaming it, but it probably is a long process, until that, please help me choose a name
That would represent my programming knowledge pretty great at the moment