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fms	2008-03-16 , 15:59
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Originally Posted by handful

please understand me that is hard for us to do stuff based on "one person's " taste I know you are probably not digging it, but as we are going to release it probably as the example to make themes, you can change just that thing to any thing you want and with the service get the new theme ready.

There is a simple argument against using green, yellow, or red for any normal selection elements in any of the themes: These three colors are generally treated by humans as having a certain meaning, with green meaning "go" or "ok", yellow meaning "wait" or "warning", and red meaning "stop" or "failure". For example, all air traffic control software is required to use these three colors only in the above situations.

So, when somebody sees a small UI element in one of these three colors, the first reaction is that the system is trying to tell something. In order to avoid this effect, just use any other color (blue, white, brown, even magenta).