Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Redesigning GitLab's navigation

about.gitlab.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

21–30 of 85 posts

Re: Redesigning GitLab's navigation

#22

Post by zanny »

Since you are redesigning UI features, are there any plans for a site-native dark theme? Seeing as there already multiple code themes available, it seems within the context of the configurable UI part of the goal. There have been Stylish themes for gitlab in the past but they break a lot because gitlab is a very large website to try restyling from the outside.

Solarized-dark with a white frame can be quite grating on the eyes.

Re: Redesigning GitLab's navigation

#24

Post by svesselov »

zanny wrote: post #22

Since you are redesigning UI features, are there any plans for a site-native dark theme? Seeing as there already multiple code themes available, it seems within the context of the configurable UI part of the goal. There have been Stylish themes for gitlab in the past but they break a lot because gitlab is a very large website to try restyling from the outside. Solarized-dark with a white frame can be quite grating on…

There is an issue for that https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/18596. It has not been our priority as we have been working on the navigation but it is something we are keeping in mind for future focus :)

Re: Redesigning GitLab's navigation

#25

Post by stevenisageek »

zanny wrote: post #22

Since you are redesigning UI features, are there any plans for a site-native dark theme? Seeing as there already multiple code themes available, it seems within the context of the configurable UI part of the goal. There have been Stylish themes for gitlab in the past but they break a lot because gitlab is a very large website to try restyling from the outside. Solarized-dark with a white frame can be quite grating on…

I'd love native support for a dark theme! As a workaround, I've found darkreader's (browser extension) default handling of Gitlab's light UI elements to be exactly what I want. It handles about 90% of other sites I frequent effortlessly and is easily toggled with a keyboard shortcut.

Re: Redesigning GitLab's navigation

#26

Post by scrollaway »

svesselov wrote: post #23
faizmokhtar wrote: post #21

Props to the Gitlab team for the release. Have enabled it for a few days now and I really love it. I feel like it is much less confusing now.

We are so glad to hear that!

I don't often use Gitlab, I just logged in this morning to update my 2FA and saw the new nav in the profile. Enabled it and instantly felt a lot more compelled to use the site.

I'm a big fan of your guys' work but using Github for a variety of reasons (UI is a big reason why), so I really mean it when I say the improvement is noticeable.

BTW, have you thought about talking to Zenhub to get a "Zenlab"? Given that Gitlab implements a lot more than Github in terms of Zenhub features it might be worth looking into.

Re: Redesigning GitLab's navigation

#27

Post by beefsack »

zanny wrote: post #22

Since you are redesigning UI features, are there any plans for a site-native dark theme? Seeing as there already multiple code themes available, it seems within the context of the configurable UI part of the goal. There have been Stylish themes for gitlab in the past but they break a lot because gitlab is a very large website to try restyling from the outside. Solarized-dark with a white frame can be quite grating on…

All of my other code workflow (terminal and editor) is in a dark theme, having to switch to GitLab to review an MR can actually be quite uncomfortable to do because there's such a leap in contrast.

The dark theme I use is Dracula[1], it's a really beautiful theme and if there was a way to view GitLab using it it'd be incredible.

[1]: https://draculatheme.com/vim/

Re: Redesigning GitLab's navigation

#28

Post by vogt »

GitLab are one of the only companies I really look up to as a UXer. You guys just Do It Right. Thanks for being so transparent into your process and even sharing InVision prototypes. More companies should do this.

Re: Redesigning GitLab's navigation

#29

Post by wolfgang42 »

My first thought on seeing this headline was "what, again?"

Don't get me wrong, the new design looks great, but it feels like every six months they switch between having side navigation and putting everything on top. Every time they change there's a definite improvement, but you'd think they'd be able to come up with a design that works for at least a few years.

Post reply on HN