Dimi,
I like the idea of color-coding the apps for their status. But if you are going to change the background, you need to change the foreground as well. Many browsers make links blue or red (and other colors for 'active' and 'visited' links) by default. In some cases, these clash with the background (blue on red). In others there is not enough contrast (blue on grey). Please find colors that work well and integrate that info into your stylesheet. My vote is for black for all. For example (please note that this is untested, so I may have indicated the wrong attribute for this case):
.todo {background-color: red; color: black}
-- Jeff S
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