Reply highlight is too low contrast

[lampholder]

Steps to reproduce

1. Find a message that is a reply to another message
2. Click it to find the reply
3. See that the message the reply was in reply to gets a very pale grey highlight.

This is particularly problematic when the message is on the same page of scrollback as the reply - if the timeline doesn't need to move to show you the message (and if you fail to notice the pale grey highlight) then it feels like nothing has happened when you click on the reply.

Outcome

What did you expect?

Easy to see message highlighting.

What happened instead?

Difficult to see message highlighting.

Operating system

Windwos

Browser information

Firefox Nightly

URL for webapp

develop.element.io

Homeserver

lant.uk

Will you send logs?

No

[t3chguy]

Modern layout uses $event-selected-color: #f6f7f8;
Bubble layout uses $eventbubble-bg-hover: #FAFBFD;

Needs design to pick a new colour

[amshakal]

Just checked, we can stick with #f6f7f8 for bubbles

[daniellekirkwood]

going to switch back the assignments now we have an answer :D

[t3chguy]

@amshakal doing that makes it blend with the colour of left-column bubbles $eventbubble-self-bg

(also what the heck is going on in #matrix-test)

[amshakal]

Hello! Since we changed the bubble colour, we can now stick to #f6f7f8 for highlights so it's visible. It shouldn't blend in with the bubble or seem too low contrast.