🚀 Feature: Improve readability in AnnouncementBanner

[ivangonzalezacuna]

🔖 Feature description

We are using the announcements plugin for a while. Some of our developer have suggested that the banner colors are not the best regarding readability, specially in the light mode. We've seen this PR in the past: K-Phoen/backstage-plugin-announcements#154, but it wasn't merged there, and doesn't seem to be here either. Is this something that would make sense?

🎤 Context

Some of our developer have complained about some readability issues in the banners, specially in the light theme.

✌️ Possible Implementation

As mentioned above, a solution like the one described in K-Phoen/backstage-plugin-announcements#154 could be a nice one.

👀 Have you spent some time to check if this feature request has been raised before?

• I checked and didn't find similar issue

Are you willing to submit PR?

None

[kurtaking]

hey @ivangonzalezacuna, thanks for reaching out. I posted on that issue in the past.

Happy to review a PR if you would like to contribute the functionality.

[kurtaking]

Maybe that is something @sravanireddy115 can help with?

[ivangonzalezacuna]

hey @ivangonzalezacuna, thanks for reaching out. I K-Phoen/backstage-plugin-announcements#154 (comment) in the past.
Happy to review a PR if you would like to contribute the functionality.

Hi! Unfortunately I don't have much time to try that out at the moment, so it would be nice if somebody else has some time to check this out. I guess some of the work can be easily done by the suggestion in that issue, but I'm not entirely sure.

[jmezach]

Just a thought here, but would it make sense to replace the banner entirely in favour of the new Notifications support in Backstage itself?

[kurtaking]

Just a thought here, but would it make sense to replace the banner entirely in favour of the new Notifications support in Backstage itself?

@jmezach, its very likely the notifications plugin could replace announcements altogether.