Gentoo Forums "Board Styles"

echeslack · Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2002 3:44 am Post subject: Gentoo Forums "Board Styles"

Hey all -

When I went to set up my profile, I noticed that the only option for "Board Style" was "subSilver." While this is a nice option, there are others that I would prefer. I searched the forums and came up with this thread. I found that there were other styles originally, but they were later removed. As it says at the end of the thread, Nitro would be willing to add them again if there is enough demand.

I personally think that it is nice to be able to customize the look and feel of even web pages because it lets it fit in with your personality a bit more. I personally would like to be able to switch my board style, but would not want it to be a hassle to the site admins.

So I present this poll to you. Please vote appropriately, and if there is enough demand, maybe we can add some. If not, I'll gracefully let the thread die and accept the forums for what they are

(I'll grant you this was a pretty good choice for a "standard" style).

Click here to preview the styles on the phpBB site.

And here are some links to some styles that I like:
Coldsteel
Darkside
Last Crusade (I have a thing for orange

)

Anyway, please comment, whether you really like the idea or just think its stupid and useless.

-ewen

delta407 · Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2002 4:00 am Post subject:

Missing an option: subSilver looks nice

There has been talk of this for a long time before this, and the forums will likely be redesigned to blend nicely with gentoo.org.
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pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20492

The current one works for me. I'd rather see an 'official' theme, and leave it at that.
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mksoft · l33t Joined: 28 May 2002 Posts: 844

I think this style is great. One of the problems with styles is maintaining different mods for phpBB, and makes upgrades (for security or features) very hard.

IMHO it's not worth the hassle.
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dioxmat · Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2002 11:46 am Post subject:

one thing that I would want is a template with less tables.
phpbb used useless nested <table> everywhere, making the pages twice as big as they should be (probably more, actually) . making a clean template using css could easily cut of the bandwith usage...
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Tuxisuau · Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2002 12:33 pm Post subject:

I like the current one :)

But I still would like to have more to choose :PP
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delta407 · Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2002 4:01 pm Post subject:

dioxmat · Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2002 4:12 pm Post subject:

yeah, thats why I think less tables should be used :)
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klieber · Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2002 2:02 pm Post subject:

Nitro may feel differently, but I'm against any non-standard phpBB styles because they make upgrading to a new version of phpBB a bitch.

So, while we may add our own, customized Gentoo theme at some point, I wouldn't hold my breath for any non-standard phpBB theme.

That said, I'll talk to Nitro about at least adding the rest of the sub* themes. He mentioned a while back that there were some problems with the themes and some of the phpBB mods that we use, so that may prevent their inclusion.

--kurt
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ekoontz

I would really like to have a choice of a different theme. Actually I like subSilver fine in general. I'm not a big theme-aholic; I'd rather just enjoy the content and not think about the style. But there's one big problem for me : I can barely see the scroll bar under Konqueror; please see my screenshot of my window :
http://hiro-tan.org/tmp/subsilver.png (look on the far right of the window)
I know some of you use mozilla or galeon and it looks fine for you. But some of us like Konqueror; I have mozilla and galeon (this is gentoo; I emerge as much as I have disk space for!

, but I simply prefer Konqueror. Please think about it. I'll put a paypal donation for $10 to the cause of your choice if one of you admins does this; I'm not joking, you have my word on that.
thanks,
eugene
ekoontz@hiro-tan.org

dioxmat · Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2002 8:23 am Post subject:

weird... I thought only IE supported scrollbar color changing (which sucks, a webmaster should not be allowed to change the browser UI of his visitors... hum never mind)

If that is the problem, then its easy, someone just change
https://forums.gentoo.org/templates/subSilver/subSilver.css
like this : (you can remove the lines I commented out :)

body {
background-color: #E5E5E5;
/*
scrollbar-face-color: #DEE3E7;
scrollbar-highlight-color: #FFFFFF;
scrollbar-shadow-color: #DEE3E7;
scrollbar-3dlight-color: #D1D7DC;
scrollbar-arrow-color: #006699;
scrollbar-track-color: #EFEFEF;
scrollbar-darkshadow-color: #98AAB1;
*/
}

if that doesnt fix it, well its a problem with konq :)

klieber · Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2002 12:52 pm Post subject:

dioxmat · Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2002 1:18 pm Post subject:

user side stylesheet wont overwrite anything.
use !important rules for this.

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masseya · Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2002 12:32 am Post subject:

I like the current theme, but I'm not opposed to more options unless they seriously hinder the ability to upgrade/maintain the system. There have been a lot of comments about how 'cool' the forums look anyway. It might be particularly nice if the forums made a custom gentoo theme, but that's still just icing on the cake for me.
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klieber · Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2002 1:00 am Post subject: