I'm +1 for a new color theme.I'm -1 for changing it on each release, because we need to have a bit of visual identity.
Currently I'm not overwhelmed by any of the proposals.I think XWiki really needs a nice default "neutral" color theme that is simple and not aggressive in any way. It should make people ok with having that as a public web site if they don't want to work on their own.
It should be simple and use usual colors to please the majority.Right now the "grey" is too aggressive. Especially for the "Edit" menu bar. It generates a too big contrasts with the main color. I'm in general not liking this menu bar more and more. It stands out too much and in my view would be better as buttons on a white background, which something making the "edit" button stands out more than the others.
Also the look is too "square" which makes it a bit aggressive too. If we are going to change something we should go for: - soft coloring - make the menu bars integrate better, especially the "edit" one - more rounding - a bit of color fading (in the main logo bar) Ludovic Le 26/03/11 15:54, Sergiu Dumitriu a écrit :
On 03/26/2011 03:45 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote: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.pngOtherwise my vote would go for the blue propositionHere's an idea: for each (final) release of the 3.x cycle, we use a different color. Ciprian also has a green one already.
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