Remove Zesty from List of Official Styles

[zvi]

Title:
Remove Zesty from List of Official Styles

Area:
styles

Summary:
Remove Zesty from list of official styles

Description:
Zesty is a style that was rushed into being an official style because the first official style only had a black theme. While that first style ¿Negatives? was cleaned up to fit into the style guidelines, Zesty has never been revisited. It lacks many of the features of Dreamwidth styles: multiple column configurations, the editor is different, the placement of elements within an entry is different (which may be more of a feature than a bug), the CSS is different (making it difficult to manipulate for style designers). To be blunt, the only way in which it is a Dreamwidth official style is that it is available to choose from the official style interface.

Until/unless some noble style designer takes on the challenge of getting zesty to conform to the normal features of an official Dreamwidth style, let's remove it so that all style guides and style announcements can be written without the asterisk *except for Zesty.

(I assume that making it unofficial will not remove the style from Dreamwidth, i.e. anyone who currently has Zesty selected as their style should still have it, it's still a public style, it just won't be in the style chooser.)

Poll #11551 Remove Zesty from List of Official Styles

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 57

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Should be implemented as-is.
23 (40.4%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
2 (3.5%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
8 (14.0%)

(I have no opinion)
22 (38.6%)

(Other: please comment)
2 (3.5%)

Comments

[azurelunatic]

I hope some noble style designer takes it into their head to step up. :)

[swaldman]

I really hope somebody will take on the project of making it compliant, because while I appreciate some of the problems that Zesty causes (and have voted "yes with changes"), I really like the style!

[ninetydegrees]

For info, there's a bug to make a new Zesty which would fit DW standards so, if this is done, it won't mean that Zesty will be forgotten and done with. :)

[cesy]

Brilliant - I loved the expanding options in Zesty when I first got here, and still haven't found anything else that works quite as well.

[ninetydegrees]

Also related: http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4323