Color scheme for Tabcandy and Add-ons

[Biju]

In default theme Tabcandy and Add-ons have two different color
schemes.
Also, they dont match to color scheme used for the default theme.

It is odd to see that, can make it match the default theme color
scheme?

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=601305

[Stanimir Stamenkov]

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 03:13:17 -0500, /Blair McBride/:

> The visual styling of addons manager in current betas/nightlies is only
> half-finished. Eventually, it'll look like the mockups as seen here:
> http://jboriss.wordpress.com/2010/08/29/add-ons-manager-ui-update/
> (note: slightly out of date now) - which I think fits in nicely with the
> rest of the new Firefox theme.
>
> Over the past few days, I've been working on getting the addons manager
> up to par with the mockups. See bug 601022 and its various dependents.

I still don't get - why's the default colors not the system ones? I
don't see fit for the blueish base used throughout the mockups.

--
Stanimir

[Blair McBride]

On 5/10/2010 8:44 a.m., Stanimir Stamenkov wrote:
> I still don't get - why's the default colors not the system ones? I
> don't see fit for the blueish base used throughout the mockups.

It's on my to-do list. See
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=563565

- Blair

[Stanimir Stamenkov]

Tue, 05 Oct 2010 17:33:24 +1300, /Blair McBride/:

Which already got resolved as WONTFIX. The reasoning:

> ... the add-ons manager appears in
> the content area and so need not necessarily fit in with the OS conventions as
> much as the rest of the UI, so this bug it really a wontfix now.

seems very shallow to me. If the general trend is to escape from
modal dialogs (or dialogs at all) and employ the browser content
area more, then not honor OS conventions for the application GUI
placed in the content area - the application will end up looking
like an amusement park. Settings like fonts/sizes/colors impact
accessibility - how not honoring them makes anything better?

--
Stanimir