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dw_suggestions2010-09-18 04:53 pm
USe variables for site scheme colours, allowing users to change their colour scheme
Title:
USe variables for site scheme colours, allowing users to change their colour scheme
Area:
Site Scheme
Summary:
Allow users to pick the colours used within their preferred site scheme, probably by setting the existing colourschemes as default variables, allowing people to skin the site as they wish without the need for many many site scheme colour scheme requests and suggestions.
Description:
Me, I love Gradation, and can handle Tropo Purple, but the rest of the colours do little for me, and I actually find Tropo Red a little offputting. I do like the paler off white background colour though, means I don't have to worry about getting a headache if I have to login from the homepage.
If the extant schemes are kept as main supported colour schemes, but users are able to change the colours to whatever they wish, this would prevent the need for extra schemes for those with different preferences, and allow people that prefer one menu structure with a different colourscheme to adapt.
I'm told a block on having different schemes is logo design, but if all logos are there as a checkbox option on that page, we can accept extra submissions of diffferent coloured logos, within reason, but people can pick shecmes that complement the logo, I'd have no problem with having the red logo on Gradation TBH, might even prefer it.
There have been at least two suggestions I've seen recently for different types of site scheme preferences, this would pretty much eliminate the need for extra schemes (and the work that entails updating each), and allow much more flexibility.
This suggestion:
Should be implemented as-is.
48 (80.0%)
Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
2 (3.3%)
Shouldn't be implemented.
1 (1.7%)
(I have no opinion)
9 (15.0%)
(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)
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I'll repost what I said: if there are too many colors in a skin, maybe users could pick the main ones (e.g. for Tropo: content text, content bkg, content links, menu/footer bkg, menu/footer bkg links, submenu bkg, menu/footer links) and have others be derived from them.
I also want to add that I like this much better than all the previous suggestions, including my own.
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But without yours and the discussions, it wouldn't have occured to me, so it's all good.
If it's workable, yes, a limited palette of main colours would be all that should be needed I'd have thought.
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I'm only using it because it's the only one where the colours don't strain my eyes. I don't like vertical navigation though, so I'd much rather have a different scheme in colours I can live with.
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FWIW, it would apparently not be a short-term project: http://dw-suggestions.dreamwidth.org/412880.html?thread=2493392#cmt2493392
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Honestly, if the templating system could just be reformed to something sane, so the site always uses the same html, just arranged and/or colored in different ways as per style or user desires, it seems like that would fix so very many downstream problems. This one included!
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I've not looked at it, as the code'll be beyond me anyway, but this would suit me completely, as a long term solution it'd be grand.
I knew having multipe schemes is a PITA, hence the desire to negate the need with this, if a much bigger solution is needed and doable then that'd suit me, but if this could be done fairly easily as a stop-gap, or it could be done as an early step in the much larger project, that'd be useful.
So many people find Trop Red very offputting it bothers me, and teaching people how to login, stay logged in, and change their styles is at times difficult. I find it easy, but I'm nowhere close to a typical use case.
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Actually, that might work as both stopgap and something that will lend itself to eventual overhaul of the templates--the user-selected colors could just go into the last site style sheet in line with !important tacked on to each color, and that would do it fine as things stand.
...except with Celerity, which uses images to produce the trailing lines. Hmm. Maybe any user-selected colors applied to Celerity could trigger the inclusion of a few lines of background-image:none to take the images out.
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There's a little bit of me tempted to install Stylish and skin Tropo, but this netbook is good, but not good enough to overload the browser with billions of addons. Plus, if a normal user can't do it and it's something several want, it's soemthing we should do anyway.
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That is to say, I understand this is a problem with many of the legacy systems.
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How have I missed noticing that interest?
LOVE it. *dying*
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So dead of laughter here.
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Not that I've worked on systems that seem to have similar modules, but, uh, yeah.
(Another favorite smart remark around our office involves getting water in the eye from the plumbing for the kitchen sink that's somewhere in the code. Because 'everything but the kitchen sink' clearly isn't descriptive enough.)
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Agreed
Re: Agreed
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Because the reds are DW's colors, and part of DW's brand. The red is not going to ever change as default, ever.
I never understood why it's like this, than other than possibly the desire to look as different from LJ as possible for the sake of it.
We got the logo in a multitude of colors from our designer. I hated Mark's first choice; he hated mine. What we have now was both of our second choices, which we agreed upon without further argument.
The red might not be to your taste, but it is something that a lot of other people like, and I'm getting more than a little tired of people intimating that it's the ugliest thing ever and nobody likes it and we should all have our eyeballs scooped out for daring to put those colors together. It's not to your taste; that's fine. Other people like it. Your taste is not universal.
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But are you at least ever going to consider giving people a choice (at least tab-wise), ie, making it easy to modify when they log in?
and I'm getting more than a little tired of people intimating that it's the ugliest thing ever and nobody likes it and we should all have our eyeballs scooped out for daring to put those colors together.
If you notice a lot of people complaining about about a feature, that might be a hint. Just sayin'.
It's not to your taste; that's fine. Other people like it. Your taste is not universal.
I never said it was, and I have a right to complain (granted, with limits of course, I'm not interested in trolling about it).
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I am not sure what you mean "tab-wise". If you mean the favicon, then no, there are no plans to change that. If you hate it as much as you say you do, you should adblock the image; it won't be changing.
I never said it was, and I have a right to complain (granted, with limits of course, I'm not interested in trolling about it).
I think you have more than made your point.
Browser tabs
I think I have too, but honestly I don't think you are really listening to people.
Re: Browser tabs
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ETA: and a default font size option! Tiny text is really hard for me to read.
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I'd especially like that because I'm using purple because I find the all-red too intense...but I LOVE the logo in red and would like to get it back (although probably not side-by-side with purple, but with some other colorset that went well with red).
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