Brontotheme Colorgeddon

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Re: Brontotheme Colorgeddon

Postby Grath » Tue Aug 26, 2014 9:05 am

Corialis looks good to me.

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Re: Brontotheme Colorgeddon

Postby Mothra » Tue Aug 26, 2014 9:50 am

Rico wrote:Am I missing something or having low standards? Coralis doesn't look to have much top clutter from my phone.

Nah you're right. I think it was the search bar that was throwing me a bit, but I imagine that would be easy to move.

Coralis it is?

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Re: Brontotheme Colorgeddon

Postby Mothra » Wed Aug 27, 2014 1:34 am

Alrighty, gonna buy Coralis tomorrow, after work. Price is like 15 bucks, so I can cover that without any problem. I'll see if I can get it set up as a mobile theme first, then mess around with the colors later.

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Re: Brontotheme Colorgeddon

Postby Mothra » Thu Aug 28, 2014 2:44 am

Okay, got it, started checking it out. I have Friday off from work, so I'll set it up then.

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Re: Brontotheme Colorgeddon

Postby Mothra » Tue Sep 02, 2014 1:00 am

Took forever, but I managed to get all the colors changed from the Coralis default.

Only thing left is to fix the image alignment, then upload it this server from the testing zone.

If all goes well, I'll do that after work tomorrow (Monday).

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Re: Brontotheme Colorgeddon

Postby Mothra » Wed Sep 03, 2014 1:08 am

Okay... switched over to Coralis. Bear with me while I try to fix all the random new problems that popped up.

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Re: Brontotheme Colorgeddon

Postby Mongrel » Wed Sep 03, 2014 1:16 am

So is this going to be the default on all platforms now, or can we use the old theme?

That's not a complaint (assuming avatars go back to the left), I'm just curious.

EDIT: NVM, just tried it and it reverts fine.
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Re: Brontotheme Colorgeddon

Postby Esperath » Wed Sep 03, 2014 1:25 am

I don't understand why people are using themes other than K_Kitty
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Re: Brontotheme Colorgeddon

Postby Mothra » Wed Sep 03, 2014 1:27 am

Yeah, trying to figure out how to move things to the left. I'm sure it's really easy but lordy bagordy they do not make it obvious.

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Re: Brontotheme Colorgeddon

Postby Mothra » Wed Sep 03, 2014 1:27 am

Uh all the grey icons in the buttons will be changed once I get the time (maybe tomorrow or the day after that).

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Re: Brontotheme Colorgeddon

Postby Lottel » Wed Sep 03, 2014 3:04 am

I say keep the avatars on the right. It's been on the left for like 25 years for you guys, right?

Shake things up.
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Re: Brontotheme Colorgeddon

Postby Smiler » Wed Sep 03, 2014 9:19 am

No.

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Re: Brontotheme Colorgeddon

Postby François » Wed Sep 03, 2014 12:26 pm

i read left to right and I like knowing who's talking first. (I know the name's still there but it's really not the same.)

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Re: Brontotheme Colorgeddon

Postby Thad » Wed Sep 03, 2014 1:12 pm

Current best-practice design theory is that content should go on the left and other information should go on the right. Avatars on the right makes sense from that perspective. And I can usually tell who's talking just by catching the avatar out of the corner of my eye.

That said, I think username should be above avatar, not below it.

Not that anyone should take any of my ruminations as a vote; I'm probably just going to revert back to SubSilver anyway because I am boring.

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Re: Brontotheme Colorgeddon

Postby Mongrel » Wed Sep 03, 2014 1:53 pm

François wrote:i read left to right and I like knowing who's talking first. (I know the name's still there but it's really not the same.)

Yeah this is where I am. It's like seeing someone's face before you hear them talking.

I wonder why best practice reverses this? It seems pretty counterintuitive.
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Re: Brontotheme Colorgeddon

Postby Thad » Wed Sep 03, 2014 3:20 pm

It's a question of emphasizing what's most important. The post is important; the avatar less so. (The stats accompanying the avatar less still.)

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Re: Brontotheme Colorgeddon

Postby Classic » Wed Sep 03, 2014 3:40 pm

Given how static avatars are lately (I'm sorry for my part in this debacle) using av images at the most significant ID makes a kind of sense.

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What I mean to say is that I think I like the redesign, although my old, terrible bones hate all this change.

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Re: Brontotheme Colorgeddon

Postby beatbandito » Wed Sep 03, 2014 6:06 pm

Now I want them back on the right just to spite Lottel.
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Re: Brontotheme Colorgeddon

Postby Bongo Bill » Wed Sep 03, 2014 6:25 pm

index.php and viewforum.php have horizontal scrollbars for me, at 1050 pixels wide (on Firefox, if it matters). The horizontal stretching does not appear to be caused by anything, as the only thing that's that wide are the forum and thread listings, which are full of empty space.

viewtopic.php fits correctly, however.
...but is it art?

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Re: Brontotheme Colorgeddon

Postby Mothra » Wed Sep 03, 2014 9:11 pm

Huh. Can you screencap it? I think I know what you're referring to, but I want to make sure.

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