Possible Candidate for Old Forum Style

[Yazilliclick]

Looking good I prefer the lighter themes, definitely easier to pretend you're doing something work related than a dark forum theme

I don't think they'll be a problem having a couple forum themes in the future if we have active people maintaining them. No problem at all letting someone have a choice as to what they prefer here.

[Qgqqqqq]

Definetly prefer darker, KoP's looks like interesting compromise.
How would in-thread look?

[sunrise089]

I VASTLY prefer the dark theme. It's easier for me to read, it looks more unique compared to most of the forums I visit, and most importantly it says "RB" to me. That said, I have no issue if it isn't the default theme other than a bit of sadness for nostalgia reasons. And, I do like the suggestion above that whether we end up with one or three+ themes we make them share non-color elements. There may be technical issues with that beyond my expertise, but it seems tidy.

EDIT: I re-read people talking about a compromise theme. While I prefer KoP's theme to the current default, and have no idea how much extra work is required to maintain a new theme once implemented, I just want to reiterate that my ideal theme is something very close in look to the traditional dark theme.

[KingOfPain]

The above screen shot is misleading. I am not trying to make a compromise. It's just showing a work in progress - it's as far as I've got - it's going to look practically like our old forum.

However, I am making a few sets of different color schemes at the same time. So they will have the looks just different colors

[kjn]

That would defeat the whole purpose of a tabbed interface which any decent and modern browser has.

Tabbed documents/views is just adding an unneeded element to the UI hierarchy, and a stopgap that's lauded because window management on many OS's suck. However, it adds unneeded complexity, reduces the pressure to fix the underlying window management troubles (though I understand Windows 7 and 8 has made some progress there), and introduces a whole slew of inconsistent behaviours (since every program has its own homebrewed implementation).

But that's going away from the topic here, and that is I firmly believe that the MyBB default theme is a better basis to build a solid new RB theme instead of the current forum default.

[kjn]

On doing two different themes, I looked a little bit more at it, and I think the easiest way to handle it is to create one theme, and make the other theme a child of the first. Then make a separate version of the headerinclude template in the child, which links to a css file which contains a different colour scheme.

Ie, we will have two versions of the headerinclude template: one that links to rb-light-style.css and one that links to rb-dark-style.css. Both templates will use the same global.css stylesheet.

[nabaxo]

That would defeat the whole purpose of a tabbed interface which any decent and modern browser has.

Tabbed documents/views is just adding an unneeded element to the UI hierarchy, and a stopgap that's lauded because window management on many OS's suck. However, it adds unneeded complexity, reduces the pressure to fix the underlying window management troubles (though I understand Windows 7 and 8 has made some progress there), and introduces a whole slew of inconsistent behaviours (since every program has its own homebrewed implementation).

My point stays. Who here does not use a tabbed browser?

Anyway, that's enough derailing the topic from me. Unless you guys remove my ability to enable a fixed width view, I'm happy.

[Viqsi]

Enh. I'm not a fan of teal post backgrounds. It's nice as a theme color (i.e. for the background, or for elements like the titlebar and such), but for actual forum text areas it would probably be less of a hassle to just make it a lighter color. Pretty much the entire WWW assumes that your body text will be on a "light" color and designs their pixmaps accordingly, so any smiley is going to look ugly unless you go for the low-res GIFs. (Then again, I like those GIFs. They feel retro-chic. :D Adding more detail to them just makes 'em more of a distraction IMO.)

Back to the original point, tho... there are some colors that are very nice to look at and make wonderful accent colors but are utter crap as dominant primary body-text colors. Teal is generally in that category. In that light, KingOfPain's illustrated proposed theme looks delicious and sexy so far to me.

[Jkaen]

I would certainly prefer to have a light option such as the current default, as the point has been made it makes it stand out less when at work for a start