[MM3-users] UI changes in Hyperkitty

Hi All,

I have been working this past weekend trying to change some UI elements of Hyperkitty to make it a bit more cleaner, easier to read quoted emails and make unread posts more visible than they were before.

As a test bed, I have deployed my changes to lists.mailman3.org1. A complete summary of changes is available in my MR2 on Gitlab.

I would appreciate some feedback from users to make sure that is is a step in the right direction.

Since it has been a long long time since I ever designed a UI, I would also really appreciate if there people who want to work with me on fixing some of the UX issues in Hyperkitty.

Summary of Changes:

• The grey background for the email headers are removed.
• Gravatars are now round in shape instead of square.
• Links to permalink of the message and fixed-font button has been moved to the bottom to remove clutter from the top of the message.
• The date format is changed to remove the Day of the week and uses 3 letter month names for minimalism.
• Right sidebar is now fixed and doesn't scroll with the page.
• All buttons on the bottom of the email now have a hover property that changes their background on mouse hover.
• Quoted part of the email now has a different background. Each level of quoting gets a different background till 3-levels of indentation. After, which we don't process more quoted text.
• Unread threads show a blue bar on the left side as a more prominent indication as compared to current envelope icon.

Feel free to reply here or just comment on MR in Gitlab.

-- thanks, Abhilash Raj (maxking)