Bring back menu items pill shape

[ochi12]

I just saw the post from OMG Ubuntu, and I haven’t had the chance to try any 26.04 builds yet. That said, I think we might be missing something important with the Quick Settings, especially the toggle buttons and menus like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and others.

From what I understand, those buttons are meant to be pill-shaped and accented on purpose. That shape feels intentional and part of the design language. I know upstream GNOME Shell uses larger rounded corners in Quick Settings, but it ends up looking a bit different from that original intent.

If you look at Quick Settings in other systems like Android, One UI 8.0, or HyperOS, they don’t go for square buttons with rounded corners, even on devices with slightly rounded screens. In my opinion, a combination of sharper container corners with pill-shaped Quick Settings items strikes a really nice balance.

Rounded rectangle buttons are meant for confirm or cancel actions and menu entries.

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[Muqtxdir]

Off topic: Wow, Joey is really fast with keeping up with the development 😀

I agree with you on the semantics, it should look like pill shape - not sure, if there was another reason for rounded rectangle button toggle

[ochi12]

we could still roll back tho together with the contrast optimization for the folders

[ochi12]

@3v1n0 any thoughts on this?

[3v1n0]

I initially did not like the fact that we had different rounding of the container pop-up compared to the items. But the default rounding is "too rounded" for yaru.

So I tried to get a consistent value and imho it looked better... Apparently most people likes it too, so I would keep it as it is.

Going back to pills leaves lots of empty spaces. While squircle are used also in other places (overview) and imho feels cleaner.

However we can consider a UIFe if it's a requirement.

[ochi12]

@3v1n0 A normal button style isn’t really appropriate for quick settings items. Different button shapes and styles exist for a reason some have rounded corners, some are accented, some are pill-shaped, and others are plain with no background at all and each of these communicates a different purpose and level of importance. In this context, buttons follow a clear hierarchy, and using a generic rounded rectangle flattens that hierarchy and makes the interface less intuitive.

A good example is search entry and a normal entry. Typically search entries have pill shape and normal entries are rounded, same as pill shape for toggle buttons, and rounded rectangles for normal buttons.

One thing I notice in this change is it affected the battery toggle on top of the quick settings, it looks more like squirclish than a pill which is inconsistent with the icon buttons in the right side.