User blog comment:Meighan/Thoughts, Feedback & Fixes Around the Admin Dashboard Rollout/@comment-26686429-20110811213250

On the colour scheme (crosspost from Talk:Admin Dashboard FAQ)
This is the one thing that looks horrible, RecentChanges looks bad on any wiki that's had any themes whatsoever, particularly so on a dark skin. There are a couple of problems with this "consistency" argument that I see: Hopefully future changes will import the background colour, (as well as link colours), and so this will come as a non-issue, but as it stands at the moment, I don't buy the "consistency" argument for a second. --  Random Time  21:14, August 11, 2011 (UTC)
 * Non sysops see styled special pages.
 * People are used to seeing pages in their wiki skin, I fail to see how making it "default white" will help people distuingiush tools from content, especially as non-sysops see these "tools" in the default skin (see above).