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stack commented on HDFS-5852:
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[~tlipcon] bq. Why don't we choose the Hadoop elephant yellow? Or Apache
purple? Seems like we already have some project branding that we could "fit
with" in that sense.
The color is just a suggestion. I now think it too radical a departure after
your comment and considering we are on the eve of a release; we shouldn't be
choosing a hadoop color at this juncture.
I put up a patch because I'd gone to the trouble of hunting out what would need
to change. Elephant yellow would have been a good, non-controversial obviously
'apache hadoop' color but as per [~cos] it'd probably be poor as background for
white text. A 'purple' or the 'Maven Blue' on hadoop.apache.org would work
better as background.
I was also after colors with a neutral provenance -- hence the choice from the
International Orange palate -- so it was clear where they came from so this
issue could be put to rest once and for all and never raise its head again.
[~vinodkv]
bq. Interesting. It could be a controversial thing, but here's my take. There
is no single HWX green, but if I were to pick one shade up, it would be the
light green in the logo. And looking at the screenshot you shared (I deployed
2.4 clusters, but never happened to look at HDFS UI), that one seems much
darker.
Thanks for the opinion V. I do think it a bit darker (though best to look at
the actual UI since the link I posted is of a PNG of a desktop picture -- so
some fidelity is lost).
bq. Irrespective, since when is pure colors tied to a company?
I think it fairly well established that color can stand for an entity such as a
company (Here is a fun game that makes the point well:
http://www.businessinsider.com/can-you-identify-these-12-brands-by-their-trademarked-colors-alone-2012-2?op=1)
bq. If this were the case, any company with grey background will conflict with
the colors we chose in the YARN UI. And Oozie UI would essentially be same as
Cloudera's?
IMO, grey is different. My guess is that is probably hard to find a company
that uses a washed out gray as its signature color.
bq. Not sure if we can rule out colors in Apache software because vendors
happen to include those in their color palette.
I was just suggesting we could avoid a few colors, ones that the big hadoop
vendors are known by.
[~sureshms] bq. I think the UI which used to look decent now looks pretty ugly.
Can we go back to just white and grey and be done with it?
Let me do this. In general, as per [~cos], I like a bit of color, let me put
up a grey so we can be done.
Thanks.
> Change the colors on the hdfs UI
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> Key: HDFS-5852
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-5852
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: stack
> Assignee: stack
> Priority: Blocker
> Labels: webui
> Fix For: 2.3.0
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> Attachments: hdfs-5852.txt, new_hdfsui_colors.png
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> The HDFS UI colors are too close to HWX green.
> Here is a patch that steers clear of vendor colors.
> I made it a blocker thinking this something we'd want to fix before we
> release apache hadoop 2.3.0.
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