How do I change the theme/branding?

All of the Horizon styles are contained in style.css (https://github.com/openstack/horizon/blob/master/openstack_dashboard/static/dashboard/css/style.css). You should be able to completely change the theme with only changes to this file.

Note: I did find some brief notes at: http://horizon.openstack.org/topics/branding.html

...but it doesn't really match up with whatever Canonical has done, which seems to be...

  /usr/share/openstack-dashboard/openstack_dashboard/static/dashboard/css/style.css

..in Ubuntu 12.04. Since it's system-wide, it's going to either get clobbered on every update, or I'll need to manually forward-port my changes for every package update. Is there perhaps some form of "user.css" that I can create in /etc that would be loaded after all the default stuff? That would give us the ability to override the defaults while not modifying package-supplied files.

I've figured it out, wrote a brief how-to on the subject have included a few screenshots as well. For others interested in custom branding the dashboard:

http://www.prestonlee.com/2012/05/09/how-to-custom-brand-the-openstack-horizon-dashboard/

Glad you got it all figured out and it worked for you! Nice write-up!

This is awesome! Might be good to talk to Anne Gentle and see if we can put this on wiki.openstack.org somewhere.