How about keep the airy buttons for dark palette users who are used to them, restore the original button style for light palette users.
Which is how it worked before the last update, should be a simple undo?
slighty off-topic - I still have not got webmin 2.630. I am on the VM7/old repos and I haver VM8.1.0 pro and webmin 2.621
So many users still cannot have a look and see how it feels.
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For some balance, I prefer the new style buttons. Thank you Ilia for continuing to make these kind of incremental improvements to the UI. Unfortunately you can’t please everyone!
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just updated today, i wish i had not 
i guess now i have to implement one of @jimr1 ‘s suggestions (seems like 1 step back instead of 1 step forward) and just encourages off-roading)
Thanks! I’ll make the colors a bit stronger since a few people mentioned concerns about the current look. Still, I’ll avoid making them too bold so they fit the design direction we want today.
Can you explain what exactly you don’t like about the new buttons and why the previous buttons look or feel better to you?
i just like red for errors, amber for warning, blue for info, etc as it catches my attention - if @jimr ‘s fix works (when i have time to try it) and it sticks - then so be it. as long as it does not get wiped out like some other fixes seem to.
i like colours as they have meaning (oh, and detest dark mode which i find unreadable as i work in daylight, thankfully
I updated and do like the new design, but I think that might be a perfect idea.
It’s OK to not like change but change is certainly OK and going to happen. I think the coders should be the choosers. Thank you @Ilia
they certainly can lead the way and get the final decision, but if 90% of your userbase do not like your choices, would you stick with it or think again.
@popmay Technical stuff I do not understand, I 100% agree with you.
I will update and decide tomorrow. 
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The following patch fixes the washed-out colors of the buttons in the light palette:
webmin patch https://github.com/webmin/authentic-theme/commit/912372f
Y’all, give it a try, please.
For me that didn’t work, it failed during patching.
Did you have Webmin 2.630 installed?
You’re right, the patch won’t work. In this case, you should wait for the next Webmin and Usermin release, or grab the latest development version if you want to test the newest code.
patch error:
Patch failed: Hmm... Looks like a unified diff to me...
The text leading up to this was:
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|From 912372ff3beda63b8774e9b4c16536f3497f80b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
|From: Ilia Ross <ilia@ross.gdn>
|Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2026 22:31:50 +0200
|Subject: [PATCH] Fix airy buttons
|
|---
| unauthenticated/css/bundle.min.css | 2 +-
| unauthenticated/css/bundle.min.css.gz | Bin 209036 -> 209181 bytes
| 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
|
|diff --git a/unauthenticated/css/bundle.min.css b/unauthenticated/css/bundle.min.css
|index ac7cea16e..ac09ba435 100644
|--- a/unauthenticated/css/bundle.min.css
|+++ b/unauthenticated/css/bundle.min.css
--------------------------
patching file unauthenticated/css/bundle.min.css
Using Plan A...
Hunk #1 FAILED at 62.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file unauthenticated/css/bundle.min.css.rej
Hmm... The next patch looks like a git binary diff to me...
The text leading up to this was:
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|diff --git a/unauthenticated/css/bundle.min.css.gz b/unauthenticated/css/bundle.min.css.gz
|index 0b8577067e0b866e6f1c654572eecc9afdf8f294..95c5e04cc6a303fe38cb47472d2621968e8cc5c7 100644
--------------------------
File unauthenticated/css/bundle.min.css.gz: git binary diffs are not supported.
Hmm... Ignoring the trailing garbage.
done
```
Yes.
Will do.
The best that can be said from my point of view is that the new theme gives me a little insight into color blindness.
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Yeah, I kind of agree. The subtle colors I used in the current Webmin 2.630 theme don’t look the same on every monitor.
I prefer contrast to subtle. The buttons how they were, were easy to identify at a glance.
The subtle colour make your brain work more just to identify a buttons location on the screen and then it’s function.
I personally like bootstrap colour scheme which what I am guessing the old buttons were based on.
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Did we get a working patch or full CSS to revert these changes to work. I do not like the new buttons. I think this style has been influenced by apple glass style..
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