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    • borzelB Offline
      borzel XCP-ng Center Team
      last edited by borzel

      I like the idea to show the difference to XS/CH a lot. It creates our own identity.

      But the xsconsole theme looks like an error occoured (because of the red). I would like to have a more non-error like look. Maybe the outline of the box in white, like here:

      c11c79d0-5022-4139-8010-eaa645d25e58-grafik.png

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      • olivierlambertO Offline
        olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
        last edited by

        Sadly, as I said, there is only few "zones" themable.

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        • borzelB Offline
          borzel XCP-ng Center Team @olivierlambert
          last edited by borzel

          @olivierlambert I think in ten years we don't mind the red or we all still hate it but didn't change 😉

          I wonder how long it takes that some coworkers do emergency calls at night because of the color ...

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          • olivierlambertO Offline
            olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
            last edited by

            Note that red is already the default fallback color so I'm not sure this is a good argument. Also it's exactly the same color than XCP-ng logo, website etc. It's not "red" per se.

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            • olivierlambertO Offline
              olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
              last edited by

              What about this one?

              4.png

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              • borzelB Offline
                borzel XCP-ng Center Team @olivierlambert
                last edited by

                @olivierlambert cool 🙂

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                • MajorTomM Offline
                  MajorTom @olivierlambert
                  last edited by

                  @olivierlambert said in New XCP-ng "theme" in shell:

                  What about this one?

                  I like it.

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                  • antoniolfdacruzA Offline
                    antoniolfdacruz @olivierlambert
                    last edited by antoniolfdacruz

                    @olivierlambert Best one!!! Super cool and not ultra left wing red-ish. Thanks.

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                      peder
                      last edited by

                      The last example is better from a legible point of view but people with color impairment could still have a problem reading the dark red on grey/black.
                      And the colors make me think of a boring industry control system from the 1980s.

                      If only the logo colors can be used I would suggest replacing the dark red with the dark yellow in the jet flame.

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                        peder
                        last edited by

                        Something like this.
                        Or possibly changing the light yellow to pure white and using the light yellow instead of the dark one.

                        xcpng.jpg

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                        • olivierlambertO Offline
                          olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO @peder
                          last edited by

                          @peder We already showed that to a color blind person. No problem at all 🙂 Also the yellow is far from being the main color used everywhere else (website etc.) Thanks for your input!

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                          • MajorTomM Offline
                            MajorTom @peder
                            last edited by

                            @peder said in New XCP-ng "theme" in shell:

                            Something like this.
                            Or possibly changing the light yellow to pure white and using the light yellow instead of the dark one.

                            Yes, this one is more legible. I like it more 🙂

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                              peder @olivierlambert
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                              @olivierlambert I still think the dark red text is an abomination 🙂
                              Here's another mock-up,xcpng2.jpg using the darkest red from the logo rocket

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                              • olivierlambertO Offline
                                olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
                                last edited by

                                I got your point 😉 That's why the latest design got far less red.

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                                  peder
                                  last edited by

                                  Last suggestion.
                                  Replacing the current /usr/lib64/xsconsole/XConsoleConfig.py values with the ones in the insert gives something like below.
                                  It accents the red/brownish color seen on the website.

                                  xcpng.jpg

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                                  • olivierlambertO Offline
                                    olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
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                                    Hi @peder thanks but it's not like this you respect a theme color 😉 Take the hex color code from XCP-ng logo (eg the "red" which isn't red 😛 ), then convert it to RGB (on 255), and after this, convert it to RGB on a base 1000 (color used by curse library).

                                    Then, as long as you respect the ration between R,G and B, you can raise or reduce the number (again, keeping the ratio) to get darker or lighter result.

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                                      peder @olivierlambert
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                                      @olivierlambert The actual values I posted aren't that important, it was the overall look I was going for.

                                      I don't have commit rights to anything so I can only come up with ideas.
                                      If you decide to use your colors I can't do anything about it, except for modifying my own copy of the program, and if you choose to go with my suggestion you can adjust any specific value to taste and theme-fidelity.

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                                      • olivierlambertO Offline
                                        olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
                                        last edited by

                                        We'll see in the future to have a config file easily editable and maybe preconfigured "themes" 🙂

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                                        • borzelB Offline
                                          borzel XCP-ng Center Team @olivierlambert
                                          last edited by

                                          @olivierlambert colors and themes are always the most important features in software 😉

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                                          • olivierlambertO Offline
                                            olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
                                            last edited by olivierlambert

                                            Yeah despite xsconsole is far from being the main entry point to manage XS/XCP-ng, it seems people are very touchy about changing anything there 😛

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