News: gray background color

Created on 9 Mar 2019  路  13Comments  路  Source: nextcloud/news

Since News 13.1.0 the active feed entry has a dark gray background and the others have a gray background. That IMHO doesn't look good. I guess you could highlight an active article in a very light gray like #f1f1f1 but the rest should stay white.
And in compact mode the headline always has a white background which creates an optical break between the headline (white background) and the content (gray background) of an article which looks weird and may even be confusing.

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So, just to be clear. You intentionally moved away from the old design with a white (and nice for the eyes) background for the arcticle to a light-grey background for the article?

I am not in the position to really complain about that, but personally i would prefer the "old" version where you have a white background on the article like since the beginning :+1: and maybe the grey highlight only for the title.

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Which theme is that?

The default theme. I tried the official docker container, installed only the News app and added a feed. All other settings are the default, the result is the same.

Edit: It happens with Firefox and Epiphany.

@SMillerDev same bug here, no theme at all as commented here https://github.com/nextcloud/news/pull/377#issuecomment-471183323 which seems to be the faulty commit.

Yeah, the gray looks really ... bad...

Alright I tested #417 and created some screenshots for you, so you can give feedback before we release.

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Thx, comment posted here https://github.com/nextcloud/news/pull/417#issuecomment-471972781

I am not sure if this is how the fix is intended, but for me (without any themes activated) i still got a light grey background on the arcticle.

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Yes, the active article has a grey background. The rest of the feed will have the same background as other apps. This is in line with the files app.

So, just to be clear. You intentionally moved away from the old design with a white (and nice for the eyes) background for the arcticle to a light-grey background for the article?

I am not in the position to really complain about that, but personally i would prefer the "old" version where you have a white background on the article like since the beginning :+1: and maybe the grey highlight only for the title.

As i said in https://github.com/nextcloud/news/pull/417#issuecomment-471972781 & https://github.com/nextcloud/news/pull/417#issuecomment-471984796 white background should have been better for now. Anyway, the weird thing is that grey background comes form a PR mentioning " accessibility themes" ^^

You can still create a PR with a better approach, we are still searching for contributors especially for design/js tasks.

There's a dark mode for nextcloud now and I'll tell you, the previous approach was far worse for dark mode then this is for all modes. If people don't like it I'm more than happy to review a pull request.

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