Refreshment of the gloomy MantisBT interface

MantisBugTracker makes it easy, fast, and professional.

This is written on the website of the developers of this product. Mantis was developed as an analogue very similar to Redmine (I think everyone knows what it is) and was written in php (so it feels great on all php hosting, etc.).
I must say that the product quite suited me a few years ago in terms of functionality: here you will receive both email notifications, time tracking and other things that we saw in Redmine . A plus for me was also the fact that Mantis is not overloaded with functionality. The product is already several years old, it has not a small audience and little support from its side. However, for all the years of the existence of MantisBT, its developers have never thought about improving the design of their product. Moreover, a long googling (do not kill for slang) on ​​the theme of updating the design of this wonderful bug tracker did not give satisfactory results. And the design in MantisBT, I must say, is bad. Very bad .
Under the cat a lot of traffic and a few words about how I improve the design of MantisBT making it more and more less bad (oh, oil, oil straight).

I will not write much. A few pictures of what was and what became.

What was:
1) login page

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2) page summary


3) page with the list of tasks


What became:
1) login page


2) page with a list of tasks


3) create task page


I don't want to say with my topic that I'm a cool designer. This is far from being so :) I just want to share my own work with those in need, for I once needed it very much. It is worth noting that everything was done in haste in his free time - read over the evening. Please do not beat for proudly incorrectly stale name in the logo. It’s just that three people who use my bug tracker really liked Redmine and didn’t want to forget the learned word ...

It must be said that stereotypedness is not provided for in MantisBT, so we had to update some of the core files. This will have a negative impact on the update, but there are no such as yet. And the current version quite suits me (now partly visually).

Much more can be redone and corrected. If, apart from me, there are still people who consider the design of MantisBT to be bad - here is the link to the project on github . Pull Requests are welcome.

Good night and good weekend!

PS Updated logo, favicon and copyright returned. Also, there was an opportunity to leave comments by pressing CTRL + Enter

UPD 01/31/2015. Made a plugin-template-tweaker based on these developments. Here is a link to the post. Supports all current versions of mantisBT