Posterous theme by Cory Watilo

Redmine themes

There doesn’t appear to be a lot of documentation or reviews on the various themes for Redmine.  There are a few themes provided on the Redmine Themes List, along with one I found outside the list, Modula Mojito and its sibling Martini.  While they all look reasonably attractive, I had to try a couple to get a feel for any difference.
I tried two from the official theme list, Squeejee and Watersky.  While both initially seem like just color redefinitions of the basic Redmine UI, Watersky caught my attention because of its use of the famfamfam silk icons and the more light-hearted blue.
Whether these differences are more than skin deep remains to be seen.  Fortunately, Redmine makes it extremely easy to switch themes.  Just unzip the theme into the themes directory and restart the Redmine service, then choose the new theme from the Settings page.
Noteworthy is the SP theme, which is not yet released but is most assuredly a deep reworking of the Redmine UI.  Be sure to check out the demo which is just amazing.  Very professional and sure to be a virtual requirement for Redmine usage soon after release.  Fortunately the designers, Shane and Peter, have agreed to open source the theme.  Hopefully this will work itself in (as the default theme?) the mainline Redmine distribution.
Great work!