Improve appearance and legibility of the screen cast and remote desktop portals
Testing with ASHPD, the screen cast portal looks like this:
And remote desktop looks like this:
Various issues here:
- Odd list layouts - some have centered content, others are left-aligned, but the spacing's off
- The centered linked buttons followed by the left-aligned headings is visually awkward
- It's hard to choose displays - you just get a text description, which is often poor and doesn't reflect what it is you're selecting. Any attempt to visualise the displays would help you to know what it is you're looking at.
- Without a text description to say which app is requesting and what you're expected to do, the dialog feels a bit ambigous.
I recently did a round of design updates for these portals, which can be found in the portals mockups. They generally look like this, and I think this resolves most of the issues listed above: