Colors in light theme too bright
See original GitHub issueWhen using valuecolor=[ON="green"], basic UI shows a darker green than the app. Even when chaning the basic-ui theme, an intensiv light green (seems `#00FF00’) is shown.
This is too bright for a white background.
We should change the colors at least in the basic-ui theme to match the basic ui and provide better accessibility through higher contrast.
Here’s a quick comparison between basic UI (first) and app (second)


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@mueller-ma Working diff to your current state: https://pastebin.com/8atxWmMZ … however, I would strongly suggest to
Benefit of that is that OpenHABWidget and friends stay dumb data holders without any theme dependency; after all they’re not reloaded on theme changes.
One pointer for resource arrays: http://www.davidebasso.me/android/android-color-list-arrays-in-xml/ … just needs the attribute-to-resource-ID added on top.
In particular, we’d need one such array per them defined in arrays.xml and then need a theme attribute that references the respective array.