A neutral button has dark coloured icon and text. Based on this it seems
acceptable to switch the colour... thanks guys.


On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Jared Zimmerman <
[email protected]> wrote:

> I would say that is a Neutral button, because we have not idea if it would
> be the primary action on the page, while it is the start of a workflow
> (leaving a talk page message) it isn't necessarily the primary action on
> the page.
>
>
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> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 6:08 PM, May Tee-Galloway <[email protected]
> > wrote:
>
>> We're in the midst of determining which buttons should be blue. Here's a
>> good place to talk about it and try to determine how we should use it.
>>
>> Blue is a progressive color. When I'm editing an article, a blue "Next"
>> button lets me know what to do to move forward in this workflow that I
>> intentionally started.
>>
>> If I want to use a blue button that isn't particularly in any workflow,
>> say.. I'm looking at a page detailing why this user hid my comment, it has
>> to be an action that moves me forward and completes a certain task from the
>> current page, which could be a button like "Talk to User."
>>
>> Determine what the page is about and its intention and then think about
>> what moves users forward and completes the user's most likely intended
>> task, or our preferred route (if any) for the user.
>>
>> Another example.. say I'm at the Wikimedia shop, the cart link would be
>> blue because it moves me forward and out of the site when I'm done with the
>> page (which is to make you buy stuff).
>>
>> In the case of user profile, which is a page that shows you a user's
>> activity, I wouldn't know what would be appropriate for a blue button. It's
>> a pretty neutral page to me or I just don't know enough about this page to
>> say what should be blue.
>>
>> mm
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Jon Robson <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> In the profile page of mobile [1]  we have a button at the bottom of the
>>> page.
>>> Is there any reason for it having blue text?
>>>
>>> When you take a look at the styleguide it seems like an
>>> mw-ui-progressive or just a simple mw-ui-button [2]
>>>
>>> We currently have a bug [3] associated with this button due to its
>>> uniqueness, so I'm keen to work out how to make this button be
>>> consistent with other buttons and opened a standardisation bug [4].
>>>
>>> Can someone chip in on the bug report with how it should be styled in
>>> the language of the styleguide and if needed, provide a new icon for
>>> talk that isn't blue?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:UserProfile/Jdlrobson
>>> [2] http://tools.wmflabs.org/styleguide/desktop/section-2.html
>>> [3] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/70947
>>> [4] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/71071
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