dsavi
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I randomly decided to take a look at The Gallery for the first time in about a year, and look who's back. :) Your illustrations are awesome, as usual. I still have my "mightiest roar" shirt.
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The three lines for tabs are probably because of your small screen resolution, I'm guessing. I could probably make the ability to delete tabs, although that's starting to get pretty advanced.
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The ideas Since I want this theme, if I ever get around to developing it, to be for the people by the people, I have taken some usability ideas and compiled them here. Feel free to add, in fact I encourage you to. Make the jumpbox act like it did in phpBB3, so you don't have to press the "Go" button (Indy500fan) Make minimized forums smaller and more space-efficient Use a modern color scheme to create a smooth feel. Like chocolate. The ability to drag forums on the index in whichever order you like (Hawkxs) Do the same with the tabs at the top A place to log in on the index page (Hawkxs) Make the theme more visually logical by making read/Unread topics easier to differentiate (Among other things). The design I have a lot of sketches in my room of how I want the tabs to look- Similar to tabs in Google Chrome. I also have a color scheme or two in mind, either the feel of chocolate like I mentioned earlier or the feel of a white LED shining through plastic. I got that last idea from seeing my brother's external hard drive. That isn't a very good picture to illustrate what I mean as it isn't in a dark room. Please, post your ideas for the new skin!
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You mean on these forums? Because I can't find it...
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I've actually been wanting an ATI card lately with the nice looking developments in their area and the seemingly matured open source driver. I'm stuck with an nVidia 8600 GT right now, so you can't get much worse. :| But I had absolutely no problems with the driver; Two click install and haven't thought about it since.
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I'm really looking forward to Karmic; 24 hours is an eternity. That about switching to 64-bit: My only reason for staying with 32-bit is really flash player. Although there is Gnash, it's nowhere near as good and even Adobe's flash player for Linux is indeed poorly put together. Just yesterday I found a site whose flash did not work on Ubuntu (Jaunty), my brother was using it on Windows and it worked fine. Adobe has so far failed to impress me with their operating system support in general. The UI of Windows 7 is pretty much what KDE4.3 is. Looking at a screencast of 7 reminded me of all kinds of desktop effects that KDE already has and the few that were original will be duplicated very, very soon. Intuitive but easy to cross-implement. This made an interesting read, I'm not too interested in people's RS blogs. :P
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IPB is designed to sense mobile browsers and automatically switch to Lo-fi, but apparently it doesn't always work now does it. :razz: I had thought of making the tabs at the top sortable and being able to collapse forums into a much shorter height, but I hadn't thought of being able to sort forums, that's a great idea. It could be difficult to implement, but it's worth it if I can do it IMO.
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The truth is, it is very 2006. Apple had even more design influence than it does now back then, and take a look at their site as it looked in 2006. Lately, a very sensible design mode has started to go a lot towards smooth, or even almost grungy design which works very well and doesn't look half as cheesy (Although I admit that Apple managed to pull the glossy look off better than about 95% of anyone else who tried). As for TIFBlack, I think it's about time to move on and do something new. This theme will be dark, but it might not be the TIFBlack you remember, and I plan to not even reuse the name.
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I'd like to hear what people have to say about the Deflection skin, what they like/don't like in the comments on my blog[/shameless advertisement]. I agree it's an OK skin for now, but in the long run I would go crazy.
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A new dark theme for TIF What's the deal here? Since TIF was converted to Invision Power Board 3, there have been some problems with styling: Particularly, the lack of good, high quality themes. Especially in the dark themes department. So what's wrong with "Deflection"? Deflection is slightly inconsistent, but much more than that, badly designed. It follows the idea of a glossy look, which gives it a plastic, 2006ish feeling. The color choices are no less than odd; Dark shades of gray, green, blue, and orange do not work well together and add to the aforementioned inconsistency. Then there's some problems with usability: For example, when you try to forum jump, you must click the "Go" button to actually go. If you minimize a forum, it still takes about 40 pixels of space, not counting the margins above and below it. Just small things; But small things add up. One of the reasons I use Ubuntu is because it's full of nice things that smooth over the whole process of using an operating system. For example, you can scroll in a window that's not focused. Again small things, but they add up to make a smooth, practical, but most of all logical user experience. I know that a lot of people were fans of TIFBlack; That's very cool and I'm glad to have made some sort of contribution to TIF. With this new theme, though, I'd like to do something far better: A theme that's customized to the wants and needs of the average TIF user, not what somebody at IPBforumSkins.com thought that people should have. Post your ideas away, whether they're crazy or not, I'd like to hear them. tl;dr: The theme "Deflection" sucks; I'm going to make a better one; I want your ideas for it. [x]