In MonoBook the notification icons are black because the apex theme does not support inverted icons. It should be possible to make them white, but last time they were flashing (T111821: Echo flyout icon flashes color change from white to black in MonoBook skin)
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Separate skin specific styles and improve Monobook appearance | mediawiki/extensions/Echo | master | 104 -29 |
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Hi @NordNordWest. Thanks for taking the time to report this!
This particular problem has already been reported into our bug tracking system as T111821, but please feel free to report any further issues you find.
Open questions for UI-Standardization:
- Should apex support inverted icons?
- Should OOUI PHP output black icons for apex (Echo is currently hacking around this)
Or we can make the text black/dark grey to match the icon. Here I've also removed the background and reduced the font size to match:
I just set the background to transparent, color to back, the font size back to 1em, and opacity to 0.7 ish.
Change 250969 had a related patch set uploaded (by Esanders):
Separate skin specific styles and improve Monobook appearance
In this design it's really difficult to see the difference between having unseen messages (blue background in vector) and not having unseen messages (grey background)
Change 250969 merged by jenkins-bot:
Separate skin specific styles and improve Monobook appearance
Related to this, there is a proposal for changing the notification badges which do not require inverted icons: T115845
The proposed approach worked well in our research sessions, but we have not checked if there would be some Monobook-related limitation. Feel free to comment on the ticket if you think there may be any.
A problem in the Modern skin has been reported: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Notification_look_change
Based upon timing, it might be related to this. Does anyone know whether Modern uses the same Notification icons as Monobook?