App background should be white by default, without texture

Can you explain why it 'should' be FFFFFF, please?

Currently the apps look quite grey and there isn't enough contrast between the background and text.

We have been doing a visual design refresh that lightens everything up, resulting in a much fresher look and better readability.

See attached design for an example in the new style

Thank you for the answer.

On the image I see only the header background is #FFFFFF. The list items background (most of the screen in this case) seems to be #FDFDFD.

I believe "pure white" (FFFFFF) as background colour is more tiring to the eyes than what we have now as the default. Maybe consider going with something in-between and make the text colour "more black".

The MR is done. See attached screenshots

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-ui-toolkit - 1.3.1603+15.10.20150812-0ubuntu1

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ubuntu-ui-toolkit (1.3.1603+15.10.20150812-0ubuntu1) wily; urgency=medium

  [ Tim Peeters ]
  * Use grid units in Icons in the showcase gallery. Fixes LP: #1481489
  * Disable header buttons when the header is animating. Fixes LP: #1478147
  * Add ActionBar examples to the gallery.
  * Make the default MainView background plain white. Fixes LP: #1481834

  [ Zsombor Egri ]
  * Fixing swiping over active components. Fixes LP: #1479688.
  * Fixing broken BottomEdgeHint gallery page.

  [ Zoltán Balogh ]
  * Fix packaging question marks / issues. Fixes LP: #1481584

  [ Loïc Molinari ]
  * UbuntuShape - Added support drop shadow aspect support to UbuntuShapeOverlay
    Fixes LP: #1480197.
  * UbuntuShape - Removed content orientation work around.
    The shape was using a workaround to make it render correctly when the
    content orientation was not the native one. This was perfect for the
    OrientationHelper shipped with the toolkit but now that the Shell
    implements the rotation, this is not needed anymore and causes some
    rendering issues. Note that the shape will still needs to support
    correct rendering when rotated using the rotation property of the Item,
    but that is a different issue. Fixes LP: #1466656.
  * UbuntuShape - Added a DropShadow aspect. Fixes LP: #1478129.
  * Renamed ShellIcon to ProportionalShape.
  * UbuntuShape - Added an ShellIcon item. Fixes LP: #1478130

  [ Nick Dedekind ]
  * Added LiveTimer.

  [ Christian Dywan ]
  * Grab focus when Dialog is shown.
  * Set Qt.IBeamCursor on text component MouseArea's. Fixes LP: #1483823
  * Make automaticOrientation on MainView a no-op. Fixes LP: #1470258
  * Fix warnings on undefine theme.name in gallery
    examples/ubuntu-ui-toolkit-gallery/ubuntu-ui-toolkit-gallery.qml:48:
      TypeError: Cannot read property of null.

  [ Ken VanDine ]
  * Don't fail if MainView doesn't have a useDeprecatedToolbar property
    Fixes LP: #1451243

  [ CI Train Bot ]
  * Resync trunk. added: examples/ubuntu-ui-toolkit-gallery/po/uk.po

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