On 03/26/2011 03:24 PM, Jerome Velociter wrote: > On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu<[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi devs, >> >> One thing that was neglected in the preparation of 3.0 is a fresh >> default color theme for this new release cycle. >> >> What I propose is to use by default a theme similar with the current >> xwiki.org themes: dark grey menus and panel headers, and a lively >> colored page header. Besides bringing a fresh look to the default >> wiki, this combination has the advantage of having been used and >> tested on xwiki.org for several months, so there will be no unpleasant >> surprises (like wrong contrasts) coming with this change. Here are two >> themes that follow this pattern, both having a stylish gradient as >> header image: >> - orange: >> http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/Extension/Soft+Orange+ColorTheme >> - blue: http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/Extension/Soft+Blue+ColorTheme >> >> My +1 goes for using the orange version as default color theme in 3.0. > > I'm definitely +1 for a new default color theme for the 3.0 cycle.
Even if it's not perfect, it's a starting point, and it shows something fresh for 3.0. > I'm afraid the two themes proposed still have two strong colors for > menu background color / panel header background color. I think it will > look odd on a dashboard for example. > I'd like to see something less aggressive in this area, WDYT ? Personally I don't find it too striking. Here's how it looks, and some alternatives: http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Extension/Soft+Blue+ColorTheme/softblue0.png http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Extension/Soft+Blue+ColorTheme/softblue1.png http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Extension/Soft+Blue+ColorTheme/softblue2.png > Otherwise my vote would go for the blue proposition > > Jerome -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
