1003705 - Unread/Typing/Attention colors are too bright

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Instantbird Graveyard :: Conversation, defect)

Description

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen] [:📆][:🧩]]

Attachment: Tabs with all colors - v1

The current colors hurt my eyes. These are the colors I use in my userChrome.css

Comment 1

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen] [:📆][:🧩]]

Attachment: Tabs with all colors - v2

Sorry, missing one color. Here is v2.

Comment 2

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen] [:📆][:🧩]]

Attachment: Fix - v1

Not sure how ui-review works for Instantbird, but here is the patch.

Comment 3

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/64fffde95193

Thanks!

Comment 4

[(inactive) Nihanth Subramanya [:nhnt11]]

The new shade of red (and the other colours to a lesser extent) is way too dull/dark in my opinion - kind of like a UI element that's disabled.
IMHO if the old colours were too bright, maybe what we're looking for is a more subtle indicator that the tab needs our attention than colouring the title?

Comment 5

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

(In reply to Nihanth Subramanya [:nhnt11] from comment #4)
> IMHO if the old colours were too bright, maybe what we're looking for is a
> more subtle indicator that the tab needs our attention than colouring the
> title?

See bug 954234.

Comment 6

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen] [:📆][:🧩]]

I could imagine making them a *little* brighter, but I think its already very much at the limit before it becomes glaring. I personally wouldn't change the colors.

http://adobe.ly/1kKH14T (I believe the bottom most slider is brightness)

#E63131 (red)
#31E631 (green)
#E68231 (orange)
#3131E6 (blue)

If you are trying these colors, be sure to actually test them in instantbird or at least on a gray background, they feel much different that way.