[solved] Colors... Nooooo.

[BrandyWine]

Is there a "suggestions" or "request for enhancements" forum?

Anyways, don't put white text on light colored backgrounds. ;)

[Fabian Wenk]

I have never seen it like this, but I am using the cicada theme since a long time to have a dark mode. Is this with the new OPNsense own dark mode? I have only enabled it for a short time to see how it looks and switched back to cicada as I did like that better. But of course this is my personal opinion.

Maybe creating an issue at https://github.com/opnsense/core/issues is the best way forward.

[BrandyWine]

I dont have any theme plugins enabled. It's the opnsense-dark from System:Settings:General

[Fabian Wenk]

So then please create a bug report.

If you also want to play with other themes, you first need to install them through System / Firmware / Plugins. You may have to enable the "Show community plugins" on top right. To show only themes, filter for "theme". The one I am using is called "os-theme-cicada".

After installing it needs to be set it in Systems / Settings / General.

[Wolfspyre]

This is ESPECIALLY bad on the live view pane... the text for matches is completely illegible y'all... this is true across opnsense-dark vicuna-dark, and cicada-dark...

Not sure how yall validated these style changes but I'd like to encourage some more thorough assessment of visibility when selecting this stuff? :)

[BrandyWine]

Yes, bad color scheme, but I not bashing the community version, just hoping the next iteration puts black text on light colored backgrounds.
Cheers.

I fixed it.
/usr/local/opnsense/www/themes/
cp -r opnsense-dark mytheme

/usr/local/opnsense/www/themes/mytheme/build/css

edit bootstrap-dialog.css (change fff to 000)
.bootstrap-dialog .bootstrap-dialog-title {
  color: #000;

Then go into System:Settings:General and choose your new theme "mytheme"

Easy reading



Using inspector to find where stuff is and edit live

[devilkin]

Great, but please also file an issue. Perhaps even with a PR for better colors?

[BrandyWine]

Great, but please also file an issue. Perhaps even with a PR for better colors?

What issue? OPNsense functions just fine with bad colors. ;)
It's free software, I can fix what I need fixing.
If OPNsense changes the colors, then great.

I am working on adding the Logout link to the header so I don't have to dive into Lobby to do it. EDIT: Logout issue fixed, see my other thread.

[Monviech (Cedrik)]

Please create an issue here or it will not be picked up and fixed:

https://github.com/opnsense/core/issues

[devilkin]

What issue? OPNsense functions just fine with bad colors. ;)

Because others might also benefit. Opensource isn't just about taking, it's also about contributing back.

[franco]

Because others might also benefit. Opensource isn't just about taking, it's also about contributing back.

I concur. And as a rule of thumb: more talking equals less progress.


Cheers,
Franco

[BrandyWine]

There's a huge list of functional bugs on github. Colors issue won't even be relevant there.
If someone has github acct and wants to list this colors issue, please do. I don't find the effort as being fruitful.

[sopex8260]

There's a huge list of functional bugs on github. Colors issue won't even be relevant there.
If someone has github acct and wants to list this colors issue, please do. I don't find the effort as being fruitful.

Imagine having 2 of the 5 main developers of the project tell you to open a ticket and doubting that they will care about it.

Also, the actual functionality bugs are very few at this moment.

[BrandyWine]

There's a huge list of functional bugs on github. Colors issue won't even be relevant there.
If someone has github acct and wants to list this colors issue, please do. I don't find the effort as being fruitful.

Imagine having 2 of the 5 main developers of the project tell you to open a ticket and doubting that they will care about it.

Also, the actual functionality bugs are very few at this moment.

I get it. But I myself would rather those dev folks be hard at work fixing functional issues.

If we were all at the big table talking about what issues need fixing and the priority they get assigned, in my world a color issue goe to the bottom of the list.

So in context, I would prefer not to create an issue there on git, let the dev folks work on real issues, and I am sure the community would prefer the same.

My ask about RFE's is also something different than filing a bug report, hence why I was asking if there was a place just for RFE's.

It's all good, I fixed what I wanted to fix, and shared for others if they want to do the same.

[Fabian Wenk]

I have now created the issue 9142 for this.