PR https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/pull/807

I'm not in favor of the following changes:

change and harmonize colors
Not sure what this one means actually.

don't display changed link color for visited links
Why not?

don't use text decoration underline for link
Why not? How do you discover links then? Are you referring to menus and bracket links or also issue content?

replace blueish color by another blueish color at various places
I would rather leave the color that the classic UI has been using for a while. There is no need to introduce a very different color.

change and harmonize colors
Not sure what this one means actually.
e.g. compare the links in menu and the boxes of "My View" page.
At the moment the link colors are different for visited links.

don't display changed link color for visited links
Why not?
IMO the menu looks quite ugly if some of the entries have been visited and some have not been visited.
If changed colors of visited links are wanted, we should use them for ALL links and introduce this also in modern UI.

don't use text decoration underline for link
Why not? How do you discover links then? Are you referring to menus and bracket links or also issue content?
Why not: Underlined text is not that good to read.
How to discover: I think menu and bracket links are quite easy to discover, all other links can be found quite intuitive as they use the same color.
BTW, modern UI does not underline any link.

replace blueish color by another blueish color at various places
I would rather leave the color that the classic UI has been using for a while. There is no need to introduce a very different color.
I don't think they are very different, but different enough to be easily able to distinguish between 1.2.x and 1.3.x when users are posting screen shots.
We are releasing a new version, so why not change a little bit the look and feel?

OK for the link changes.

As for differentiating the screenshots. How about changing the font to the one used in the modern UI, rather than changing the color?

How about changing the font
Nice idea, I didn't expect that you would consider bigger changes for this.
They might introduce regressions and might delay getting out 1.3.0.

1.3 is quite conservative in many aspects and still runs using quite old browsers (IE9, ...), so I would not touch 1.3 in such a way.

Changing just the color is certainly much less risk.

Colors can hardly be discussed.
I like the new blueish, maybe just because I see the old one since years and want something fresh.

What about some +1 or -1 from @dregad, @rombert, @cproensa, @syncguru to get a final decision just for the color?

My opinion:
+1 for the color
+1 for the uniformity in color, of clicked/unclicked links, and no underscore
+1 for grey outlines.

i agree on the reasons provided by atrol

Just noticed that this change introduced a regression in the display of at least the manage tags page (see attached screenshots), did not check all other pages so I'm not sure if there are other side-effects.

Should be fixed prior to release of 1.3.0 final.

Looking at HTML source, this is caused by an invalid anchor tag. Will commit a fix shortly.

Will commit a fix shortly
Didn't read, pushed just some moments ago.

No worries. Just pushed a follow-up fix because using < a name='xxx' > is obsolete.