disabled buttons do not look disabled

[jbsil]

The button gradients for button, button-secondary and button-primary all invert on :active. This gives the user the impression that the button still can be clicked because, when the button is clicked, it still changes and looks as though it is being clicked in.

The :disabled state for any of the three button classes does not include a background parameter, and the :active state's background parameter is listed as !important.

I think the :disabled state should be more apparent to the user so that the button does not seem clickable. Maybe

button:disabled, button-secondary:disabled, button-primary:disabled {
     background: #ccc !important;
}

or something along those lines. And possibly remove the !important from the :active states.

This needs to be changed in both colors-fresh.css and colors-classic.css

[jbsil]

first stab at :disabled buttons that actually look disabled. changed some colors, backgrounds and !importants in :active, :disabled and :hover

[jbsil]

Patch for the two css files that need to be changed.

[Denis-de-Bernardy]

isn't removing the !important on the likes of #login form .submit input:active wrong?

[Denis-de-Bernardy]

patch is b0rke

[azaozz]

The patch doesn't cover all cases too. Also the buttons change enough I think. If they change more, they start to draw too much attention when the Submit postbox is next to the editor (the buttons there are disabled every 2 min. while autosave is running).