[NETBEANS-5268] Alter Welcome Screen colours for readability

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Next, 12.2
• Fix Version/s: 12.3
• Component/s: FlatLaf, ide - Welcome
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Martin H.
• Created: 20/Jan/21 15:25
• Updated: 25/Jan/21 19:08
• Resolved: 25/Jan/21 19:04

Description

I would like to suggest the following colour changes to FlatLaf Light and Dark for the Welcome Screen:

FlatLaf - Change background colour (instead of altering the image just for this theme) to make the logo stand out.

Current:

Suggested:

FlatLafDark - use actual dark image asset colours for content banner in order to avoid title "cutting".

Current:

Suggested:

 In addition, the default date color may be changed from orange to dark red (icon color) to improve consistency and readability, especially with Motif theme.

Current:

Suggested:

 

Issue Links

• is related to: NETBEANS-3644 Fix Welcome Screen colors for Flatlaf
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #2699