[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #27516: Re-style Audio/Video players in the admin

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#27516: Re-style Audio/Video players in the admin
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 Reporter:  celloexpressions  |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement       |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:  3.9
Component:  Media             |     Version:  3.8
 Severity:  normal            |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch       |     Focuses:  ui
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Comment (by celloexpressions):

 Replying to [comment:1 wonderboymusic]:
 > Those colors were chosen because they are the official WP school colors.
 Were the official colors :)

 The minimum thing to do would be to swap out those colors in the global
 styles. We could also flatten the global styles a bit, like Twenty
 Thirteen and Fourteen do (#25209) without worrying about compatibility,
 but that's obviously a subjective choice. The question is: does the
 flatter look work better for the majority sites/themes currently in use?
 Themes ''can'' (and should) override the defaults, but the defaults should
 look good on as many sites as possible. I'd vote for flattening.

 In addition to that change, though, the players should definitely be
 flattened in the admin, and the colors could also potentially be tied to
 the admin menu colors. As part of that flattening, we could replace the
 icons with Dashicons for consistency. Since themes can re-style the
 players anyway, causing inconsistencies between front- and back-end, I
 don't see a reason that they shouldn't match the admin in the admin. If we
 did this, it would be a matter of updating whichever global styles we want
 to for front-end, then doing the rest in probably `wp-
 admin/css/media.css`. Essentially, this is about having different styles
 for the front-end defaults and the back-end.

 Once we figure out the scope I can put together patches & screenshots with
 specific proposed changes.

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