Notes 5.0.0 notes list date titles lost contrast, extra whitespace spreads list

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The Basics

  • Nextcloud Server version (e.g., 29.x.x):
    • 33.0.2
  • Operating system and version (e.g., Ubuntu 24.04):
    • Archlinux
  • Web server and version (e.g, Apache 2.4.25):
    • 2.4.66
  • Reverse proxy and version _(e.g. nginx 1.27.2)
    • none
  • PHP version (e.g, 8.3):
    • 8.3.30
  • Is this the first time you’ve seen this error? (Yes / No):
    • Yes
  • When did this problem seem to first start?
    • Tonight after update to Notes 5.0.0
  • Installation method (e.g. AlO, NCP, Bare Metal/Archive, etc.)
    • Nextcloud update app
  • Are you using CloudfIare, mod_security, or similar? (Yes / No)
    • No

Summary of the issue you are facing:

I was working in Notes when the update icon showed an update to Notes 5.0.0 was available. I did the update, checked the dashboard - the notes visible in the dashboard again (thank you), and then went back to the Notes application. I immediately noticed a significant difference in readability of the list. Something has change, but I’m not sure if it was the date separator headings color or saturation, the whitespace between the notes listed or both. It was a “whoa!” moment.

After update to Notes 5.0.0, the notes list is more difficult to read and fewer note titles fit in the list displayed. It appears there was a change in formatting of the list that either changed the date separator heading color or the shade of gray used reducing the contrast between the auto-generated date headings and the note titles. (I wish I would have taken a screen shot before update – but hindsight is 20/20)

Additionally there seems to be quite a bit more whitespace between the note titles causing fewer to be displayed in the vertical space available.

The result of the changes, whatever they were, make the list more difficult to read – especially for older eyes. I may be getting senile, but something changed. This is a minor formatting change, but it was significant enough to me that I thought it worth passing along.

note: the Notes list is still readable, so it’s not that I can’t read it, it’s that when running my eyes over the list it is no longer as comfortable to scan through as in the version that was just replaced.

Here is a screenshot of the list I see now with Notes 5.0.0:

Steps to replicate it (hint: details matter!):

  1. Just update to Notes 5.0.0, it’s a look & feel issue, no magic steps to reproduce.

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Hey @drankinatty welcome back :waving_hand:,

while I agree with your findings after also upgrading to Notes 5.0.0, this would certainly be worth a mention on the developers GitHub Issues · nextcloud/notes · GitHub. Please consider dropping an issue request there if there’s no mention already?

The app developers don’t usually hang out here in the community forum :sad_but_relieved_face:

Thank you @scubamuc , I’ll follow-up with an issue on github.

github/notes issue