Hi everyone,

We've wanted to change the Gerrit UI to be less ugly for quite awhile, and I think a good first step is getting rid of the puke green/yellow color schemes. Gerrit has the ability to change these colors without using CSS-- it's done with the "theme" configuration[0]. I'm awful at choosing these sorts of things, so I thought I would open it up to the list for a bit of bikeshedding to come up with some colors we can use.

Specifically, there's 5 colors we can change *right now* and that I'd love to get some input on what to change them to. These 5 are:

1) backgroundColor -- pretty self explanatory, default is #FCFEEF for anonymous users and #FFFFFF for logged in users. 2) topMenuColor -- the color in the top menu area, the puke green, #D4E9A9 3) textColor -- self explanatory, default is #000000 4) trimColor -- used for section headers and such, same green as topMenuColor by default 5) selectionColor -- the cream-yellow color used when you're highlighting a given field/button/etc in Gerrit, color is #FFFFCC

Additionally, there's 3 more colors that we'll be able to customize starting with 2.5, so it's worth keeping them in mind (and maybe going ahead and picking colors for them too):

5) changeTableOutdatedColor -- That glaring red that shows up in the dependencies field when a dependency is outdated, default #F08080 6) tableOddRowColor -- with 2.5, we can do alternating colors for the change listings, making it easier to read. By default, transparent. 7) tableEvenRowColor -- complement of above

We can test these all on the labs instance of Gerrit[1], and in fact RobLa and I tried some colors awhile back (but neither of us are designers). If anyone wants access to the instance so they can play with it, please ping me and I'll be happy to add you. Thanks for input everyone :)

-Chad

[0] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/Documentation/config-gerrit.html#_a_id_theme_... [1] http://gerrit-dev.wmflabs.org/