Post #4184532

2026-07-29 04:52 UTC

We miiiiight be able to sneak in a pretty substantial change to GNOME Shell in time for the next release: moving the search results to an overlay instead of taking over the screen. It’s more spatial (the search results come from somewhere instead of just… taking over) but for light style users like me: it should actually be more accessible, too! One more step on the path to a proper light style Shell. NOTE: lots of style issues remain in this prototype! #GNOME #GNOMEdesign #GNOMEshell

Replies (6)

@hbons@mastodon.social 2026-07-29 06:25

@cassidy@mastodon.blaede.family not really a fan… it seems kind of arbitrary. what’s it trying to fix?

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@deobald@fantastic.earth 2026-07-29 11:04

@cassidy@mastodon.blaede.family this is great to hear! getting every aspect of the shell to eventually respect dark/light mode would be a huge accessibility win. i can use light mode, but only outdoors in full sunlight. but in that situation dark style widgets cause the same headaches light mode normally causes me. many people experience this as a kind of micro-headache… it adds up. mixing them never makes sense. #a11y

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@cassidy@mastodon.blaede.family 2026-07-29 20:30

Here’s the latest state of a WIP prototype branch. We’re still going to do a design pass to improve things; maybe removing the card styling of results (since each section isn’t activatable, but results within are). There’s more to do, and again: this light style is an off-by-default accessibility setting that I’ve been testing with to ensure it will work, but we don’t plan to ship a light shell by default in 51 afaik. But you can at least see some progress. :) #GNOME #GNOMEdesign #GNOMEshell

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@pixl_xip@pleroma.envs.net 2026-07-29 04:53

@cassidy@mastodon.blaede.family Woa, this looks nice. How would the searchbar look when inactive, and what would the transition be?

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@fizzyizzy05@tech.lgbt 2026-07-29 04:59

@cassidy@mastodon.blaede.family Woah this actually looks really nice.

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@pojntfx@mastodon.social 2026-07-29 05:22

@cassidy@mastodon.blaede.family This looks really nice! Vaguely reminiscent of the COSMIC app menu?

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