Bo, I don't like this new look.
I know it is hard to reach a consensus, but these insets (reference, footnotes etc) contain auxiliary information, and should not catch more attention than the main text. Also, as I have explained, buttons in a lyx document are not like buttons in a html page. In the lyx case, there are *many* buttons and you usually *ignore* most of them; in the html case, there are only a few buttons and you expect to find them easily. That is why I would like to make lyx buttons less prominent. But anyway, the colors are configurable... Bo