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Interactive, embeddable Neo4j-Console
http://rabbithole.heroku.com
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Change color scheme #15

Open dmontag opened 12 years ago

dmontag commented 12 years ago

It's hard on the eyes. Black is not great for this imo. White or light gray would be much nicer. Also, the highlighted red nodes/rels don't show that well against black.

peterneubauer commented 12 years ago

Got any better suggestion?

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 12:17 AM, David Montag reply@reply.github.com wrote:

It's hard on the eyes. Black is not great for this imo. White or light gray would be much nicer. Also, the highlighted red nodes/rels don't show that well against black.

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/neo4j-contrib/rabbithole/issues/15

technige commented 12 years ago

My personal preference is for white on black (the current colour scheme) so I don't think we can please everyone. What if colours were able to be passed as extra parameters?

e.g. ...&bg=#FFFFFF&fg=#000000&...

dmontag commented 12 years ago

I prefer a lighter background. Also, imo light on dark is harder to see on a projector in a dark room than dark on light. With the live console being such a fantastic demo tool, I think this should be factored in.

I'll go ahead and suggest dark gray/black on light gray (like Github :). Configurable in URL and/or toggleable in UI is an option too, if supporting both schemes is necessary.

freeeve commented 12 years ago

I like the black too.

freeeve commented 12 years ago

Does this offend people?

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dmontag commented 12 years ago

Definitely not offended. I still think dark on light is preferable though. For one, projectors and large displays do much better with dark on light than the opposite. Secondly, I think the dark, contrasty colors might alienate some people, bringing about a feeling of "niche advanced hacker shell" rather than "your friendly neighborhood graph database that even your grandma will like". Make sense?

freeeve commented 12 years ago

I'd rather have a hacker shell than a grandma portal. :(

I guess there could be a way to set up a preference cookie or something.

dmontag commented 12 years ago

No love for grandma :(