There is a trillion themes...

[ulfgebhardt]

🐛 Bugreport

There is a trillion themes... and all give me eye cancer.

While the old (1.x) cypht had a very clear interface the new one (2.x) offers trillion different themes. Each one more ugly then the last.

I like to request a black and white theme which offers actual eye friendlyness.

In general I think its a bad choice to display email titles as link color - this makes 95% of the themes unusable.

There is two themes which are "close" to usable:

• "Lux" - the colors are good, but the typography is just awefull - its the best currently available
• "Sketchy" - the colors are ok, but the typography is even worse

I would like to requests to remove all those themes and have like 3 well designed in place the user can choose from.

Apologies for the harsh words.

Version & Environment

Rev: [v2.4.0]

OS: [chromium, alpine]

Mitigation

a {
  color: var(--bs-table-color-state, var(--bs-table-color-type, var(--bs-table-color)));
}

makes things bearable, not great, but bearable

Steps to reproduce

1. log into cypht
2. get eye cancer
3. change themes
4. ...
5. more eye cancer

[marclaporte]

@ulfgebhardt

Sorry about the eye cancer. I have good and bad news for you. I will start with the bad:

We will not remove the many themes.

• "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder": What you dislike, somebody else loves.
• The themes come from https://github.com/thomaspark/bootswatch (where we can contribute fixes)
• A benefit is that it offers a bunch of options with very little work.

Now the good news:

You asked:

I would like to requests to remove all those themes and have like 3 well designed in place the user can choose from.

I like to request a black and white theme which offers actual eye friendlyness.

We can easily do this because:

• Bootstrap makes this super easy (one of the reasons we picked Bootstrap)
• Our team includes graphic designers that can help with the process

More good news:

• We can make the best themes (in your opinion) be at the top of the list.

So we would have:

1- The default theme (consensus of all active people in the project).

2- "Recommended themes" or "best themes" that you get to pick as you lead the prevention of eye cancer among so many Cypht users.

3- All then the other themes (because Bootswatch makes some people happy).

[marclaporte]

For anyone following this thread: @mercihabam, @Shadow243, @Baraka24, @christer77, @kambereBr and I are in touch via email with @ulfgebhardt. The current focus is addressing various issues he found in master on our test site. Many of these are blockers to releasing 2.5.0: #1624

Once 2.5.0 is released, we'll coordinate with @ulfgebhardt on improving Cypht themes.