Userstyles

[bonzodog]

I have just installed the stylish extension to firefox, and noticed that there were no real themes as such for the forums.

A lot of other popular websites, such as Digg, slashdot, and Google have a userstyle that blends really well with dark gtk themes, that change the way FF handles text (it renders the text white in this forum, making it unreadable).

A lot of people have asked for themed forums - well, heres an idea, instead of asking ubuntugeek to make some for vBulletin, why not make the stylish extension the main way of theming the forums, and get people with the know-how to make some of these themes, and post them to http://userstyles.org ?

I would really like a dark theme for the forums that sets the background grey instead of white, but lets the text stand out, and doesn't ruin the CSS, which is what happens if you try to change FF's colour settings to make a dark theme work.

[bonzodog]

I am going to bump this...I need a reply, to know from staff or anyone if they might be interested in implementing it.

[ubuntu-geek]

At this time we have no plans to offer something like this.

[bonzodog]

What I was thinking more of was getting users to contribute to the site with their own 'themes' for ubuntuforums that allow them to use alternate colours.

I might take some time out and contribute my own theme at some point after I have learnt how to do them. A lot of it seems to be about how FF renders CSS.

[ubuntu-geek]

Yeah, I wouldn't bank on doing that. The css can change at anytime breaking those themes. But I am not saying don't do it. Just saying you might run into problems again because of the ever changing system we use here.

[mips]

I have just installed the stylish extension to firefox, and noticed that there were no real themes as such for the forums.


Yes there is but the objective is to make the forum easier on the eyes as there is to much white which is a strain on the eyes. It was born from this thread, http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=211360

And the result can be found here, http://userstyles.org/style/show/621

Others that come up under searching for ubuntu are, http://userstyles.org/style/search/Ubuntu

Nothing stops you from creating your own style. If you follow the first link I posted you might find some info in there how to go about it.

[bonzodog]

I have now installed a few themes for other sites, such as a dark Slashdot, a dark google, and GMail, and also a Dark Digg.com, and a dark reddit.com.

All these themes rock.

[mips]

Are you making one for ubuntu forums ?