# Proposal: UI with rounded corners **URL:** \ **Category:** Blue Skies\ **Created:** [October 15, 2025, 11:34am UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/proposal-ui-with-rounded-corners/135499 "2025-10-15T11:34:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ilia](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/user_avatar/forum.virtualmin.com/ilia/32/10185_2.png) [@Ilia](https://forum.virtualmin.com/u/Ilia)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2025, 11:34am UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/proposal-ui-with-rounded-corners/135499/1 "2025-10-15T11:34:50Z")
Hello everyone! I’d like to get feedback on switching to rounded corner design by default and having the option to disable it. The mockup is in the screenshot below. The trend of round corners is coming back again, and I think our users would appreciate it—it should also help attract new ones. _Poll ([view on site](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/proposal-ui-with-rounded-corners/135499/1))_ ![image](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/uploads/default/original/3X/e/5/e54ced1cdb2dc29db914470cd67162c0cd4d8505.png) * * * ✏ You can find more actual screenshots with the final results and more explanations here: > [@Proposal: UI with rounded corners](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/proposal-ui-with-rounded-corners/135499/47): > > Hey everyone! The recent work on improving the overall balance and coherence of the theme is done — element sizing, spacing, and contrast (especially in dark mode) have all been refined. The rounded navigation menu is now in place, but after testing, I think the right content area will most likely stay square, as it just feels cleaner and makes better use of space with a new layout. You can already check everything out in the latest development builds. It’s not 100% done yet, but it’s good en… ✏ Implemented in [Authentic 26.00](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/authentic-theme-version-26-00-release-overview/135755). ---
**Author:** ![daychilde](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/user_avatar/forum.virtualmin.com/daychilde/32/17635_2.png) [@daychilde](https://forum.virtualmin.com/u/daychilde)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2025, 11:47am UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/proposal-ui-with-rounded-corners/135499/5 "2025-10-15T11:47:17Z")
I think rounded corners increase usability slightly in that they help define the individual spaces. Don’t take up much room (if the padding wasn’t already there), but they provide great visual feedback subconsciously. And if there’s an opt-out, even better for those that hate them 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Joe](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/user_avatar/forum.virtualmin.com/joe/32/9_2.png) [@Joe](https://forum.virtualmin.com/u/Joe)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2025, 12:49pm UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/proposal-ui-with-rounded-corners/135499/6 "2025-10-15T12:49:06Z")
They look like 2005, to me. 🤷‍♂️ I won’t say it looks bad, but I remember when the `border-radius` CSS was introduced it was a big deal and every UI was all rounded corners everywhere. ---
**Author:** ![Shirehosting](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Shirehosting](https://forum.virtualmin.com/u/Shirehosting)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2025, 1:10pm UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/proposal-ui-with-rounded-corners/135499/7 "2025-10-15T13:10:33Z")
Allow me to say this, I don’t care either way. Having said that I find is funny we go from round edges to square, back to round, back to square, back to round, every few years. Yes I’m old and have seen this many times before.. ---
**Author:** ![ID10T](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/user_avatar/forum.virtualmin.com/id10t/32/7895_2.png) [@ID10T](https://forum.virtualmin.com/u/ID10T)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2025, 2:10pm UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/proposal-ui-with-rounded-corners/135499/8 "2025-10-15T14:10:01Z")
Until you brought it up, Opera web browser is using/adding rounded corners and I never even noticed. ---
**Author:** ![shoulders](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/user_avatar/forum.virtualmin.com/shoulders/32/10086_2.png) [@shoulders](https://forum.virtualmin.com/u/shoulders)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2025, 2:15pm UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/proposal-ui-with-rounded-corners/135499/9 "2025-10-15T14:15:00Z")
it breaks the sections up allowing for better focus on your current task, looking through the menu, looking at quotas etc… ---
**Author:** ![apt\_virtualmin](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@apt\_virtualmin](https://forum.virtualmin.com/u/apt_virtualmin)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2025, 9:05pm UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/proposal-ui-with-rounded-corners/135499/10 "2025-10-15T21:05:44Z")
You are right because every web developer (me included) for that period up until last few years used bootstrap for their css framework and that was their default theme. As developers moved away from bootstrap a few years back in favour of tailwind the designs shifted as tailwind gives a lot more flexibility so a measure of creativity returned in ui’s. However I can tell you the latest tailwind designs are all back on the rounded borders train. So yes what was old is current again. That’s my `rounded-md border` 2 cents. ---
**Author:** ![Ilia](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/user_avatar/forum.virtualmin.com/ilia/32/10185_2.png) [@Ilia](https://forum.virtualmin.com/u/Ilia)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2025, 9:14pm UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/proposal-ui-with-rounded-corners/135499/11 "2025-10-15T21:14:54Z")
> [@apt\_virtualmin](#): > > However I can tell you the latest tailwind designs are all back on the rounded borders train. So yes what was old is current again. Yeah! And, I have a strong feeling that within the next year, many others will follow this roundish trend. I just want us to be ahead of it and draw more attention by leading the way. ---
**Author:** ![shoulders](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/user_avatar/forum.virtualmin.com/shoulders/32/10086_2.png) [@shoulders](https://forum.virtualmin.com/u/shoulders)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2025, 9:18pm UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/proposal-ui-with-rounded-corners/135499/12 "2025-10-15T21:18:20Z")
The bootstrap minimalist look has never gone away, there are lots of panels and GUIs that still use it. I think cockpit is a good example. Just don’t make massive buttons with large padding and with large curves. I hate it when real estate it taken up with pointless styling. ---
**Author:** ![lawk](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/dbc845/32.png) [@lawk](https://forum.virtualmin.com/u/lawk)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2025, 9:24pm UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/proposal-ui-with-rounded-corners/135499/13 "2025-10-15T21:24:18Z")
Will aarch64 get official support tho? Sort of teasing on the screenshot. ---
**Author:** ![Joe](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/user_avatar/forum.virtualmin.com/joe/32/9_2.png) [@Joe](https://forum.virtualmin.com/u/Joe)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2025, 9:27pm UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/proposal-ui-with-rounded-corners/135499/14 "2025-10-15T21:27:53Z")
We have said for quite a while that Virtualmin 8 will support arm64. ---
**Author:** ![Ilia](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/user_avatar/forum.virtualmin.com/ilia/32/10185_2.png) [@Ilia](https://forum.virtualmin.com/u/Ilia)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2025, 9:47pm UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/proposal-ui-with-rounded-corners/135499/15 "2025-10-15T21:47:11Z")
> [@shoulders](#): > > Just don’t make massive buttons with large padding and with large curves. I hate it when real estate it taken up with pointless styling. Actually, I just changed it yesterday. The buttons and other padding will be slimmer and more aesthetic now. ---
**Author:** ![inteq](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/user_avatar/forum.virtualmin.com/inteq/32/18101_2.png) [@inteq](https://forum.virtualmin.com/u/inteq)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2025, 12:30pm UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/proposal-ui-with-rounded-corners/135499/16 "2025-10-16T12:30:27Z")
> [@Ilia](#): > > Yes, make rounded the default, keep an opt-out The option “Yes, keep square the default, have rounded as an option” never seen the light of day. The decision has been made already, before creating the poll. So why bother. ---
**Author:** ![Ilia](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/user_avatar/forum.virtualmin.com/ilia/32/10185_2.png) [@Ilia](https://forum.virtualmin.com/u/Ilia)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2025, 12:35pm UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/proposal-ui-with-rounded-corners/135499/17 "2025-10-16T12:35:39Z")
> [@inteq](#): > > The decision has been made already, before creating the poll. > So why bother. If I implement that, it’ll simply show a quick question dialog on the first visit, letting the user choose between the old and new UI within a few seconds. No stress! ---
**Author:** ![Joe](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/user_avatar/forum.virtualmin.com/joe/32/9_2.png) [@Joe](https://forum.virtualmin.com/u/Joe)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2025, 1:30pm UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/proposal-ui-with-rounded-corners/135499/18 "2025-10-16T13:30:34Z")
> [@Ilia](#): > > it’ll simply show a quick question dialog on the first visit No! To this I object strongly. No more damned questions before even starting to use Virtualmin. ---
**Author:** ![Ilia](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/user_avatar/forum.virtualmin.com/ilia/32/10185_2.png) [@Ilia](https://forum.virtualmin.com/u/Ilia)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2025, 1:30pm UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/proposal-ui-with-rounded-corners/135499/19 "2025-10-16T13:30:59Z")
> [@Joe](#): > > No more damned questions before even starting to use Virtualmin. For the old user, not the new users. ---
**Author:** ![Joe](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/user_avatar/forum.virtualmin.com/joe/32/9_2.png) [@Joe](https://forum.virtualmin.com/u/Joe)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2025, 1:35pm UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/proposal-ui-with-rounded-corners/135499/20 "2025-10-16T13:35:36Z")
Still feels bad. Like centering the wrong thing and at the wrong time. I hate popup questions when I’m in the middle of doing things. If we’re making the change and if the majority wants the change, just make the change. If you want an option to change it back, that’s fine (and will hopefully make the folks who don’t like the change happy), but don’t make it everybody’s problem by asking everyone a question about it. Friction is bad UI. Questions unrelated to the current task are friction. ---
**Author:** ![Stegan](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/user_avatar/forum.virtualmin.com/stegan/32/6860_2.png) [@Stegan](https://forum.virtualmin.com/u/Stegan)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2025, 1:35pm UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/proposal-ui-with-rounded-corners/135499/21 "2025-10-16T13:35:50Z")
> [@Ilia](#): > > For the old user, not the new users. ageism exists 🧓 ---
**Author:** ![Ilia](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/user_avatar/forum.virtualmin.com/ilia/32/10185_2.png) [@Ilia](https://forum.virtualmin.com/u/Ilia)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2025, 1:43pm UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/proposal-ui-with-rounded-corners/135499/22 "2025-10-16T13:43:55Z")
> [@Joe](#): > > If we’re making the change and if the majority wants the change, just make the change. If you want an option to change it back, that’s fine (and will hopefully make the folks who don’t like the change happy), but don’t make it everybody’s problem by asking everyone a question about it. Alright, agreed. I’ll make sure the option in theme settings is easy to find and use. ---
**Author:** ![shoulders](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/user_avatar/forum.virtualmin.com/shoulders/32/10086_2.png) [@shoulders](https://forum.virtualmin.com/u/shoulders)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2025, 2:25pm UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/proposal-ui-with-rounded-corners/135499/23 "2025-10-16T14:25:29Z")
> [@Ilia](#): > > For the old user, not the new users. Things move one. If every consideration is based on what about 5 users want then nothing will change. I would benefit and loose from this decision model so I do have some skin in the game. On this one I agree with @joe. Don’t put this option in the wizard or any post-upgrade, just let the corners be round. Rounded corners should not even be a configurable options unless the admin wants to use custom CSS, certainly not procedural via code when the theme is built. [Next page](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/proposal-ui-with-rounded-corners/135499.md?page=2)