5 Color Themes / Skittlish Dreams

[sarken]

Theme name/layout: Academy / Skittlish Dreams
Author: sarken
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Theme name/layout: Desert Cream / Skittlish Dreams
Author: sarken
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Theme name/layout: In the Bag / Skittlish Dreams
Author: sarken
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Theme name/layout: Like Sunshine / Skittlish Dreams
Author: sarken
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Theme name/layout: Snow Cherries / Skittlish Dreams
Author: sarken
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Image Info: All images for all themes made by me. When using Skittlish Dreams with the sidebar on the left, change the "right" on image URLs to "left."

Additional info: I noticed that color_entry_metadata_text and color_entry_title weren't actually changing the colors, so I went and applied them using CSS.

Comments

[timeasmymeasure]

These are all absolutely gorgeous!
The general text is a little dark on Snow Cherries but that color combination is beyond beautiful.
Really love these so much, especially 'In The Bag' =D

[sarken]

Thanks!

Is it better now? I was going back and forth on the text color, but I couldn't decide if I wanted almost black or just really dark grey.

[timeasmymeasure]

Yep :)
Again, these are lovely!

[sarken]

Awesome. That'll teach me to second guess myself. ;) Thanks again!

[turlough]

Very nice! I particularly like the colour combination for Academy. But I wonder if the link colour in Like Sunshine isn't a bit light, particularly for the date and comment links?

[ninetydegrees]

Oh lovely!

[baggyeyes]

These are gorgeous. I imagine they were very hard to do. (Altering the images along with the css colors)

[leslie]

I love these! My very most favorite might be Desert Cream. Great job!

[dancing_serpent]

Very beautiful, especially Desert Cream!

Academy

[ninetydegrees]

In the source code, several images seems to have incorrect URLs as they lead to 404 pages:
-- http://manhattan-trash.net/skittlish/bg.gif
-- http://manhattan-trash.net/skittlish/bg_b.gif
-- http://manhattan-trash.net/skittlish/box.gif

I assume you meant http://manhattan-trash.net/skittlish/a_bg.gif and so on.

Re: Academy

[sarken]

Ack, yeah. I had the files uploaded under two names and just deleted the ones without the a. Sorry!

ETA: Fixed now. God bless iPods and wifi.

[ninetydegrees]

Sarken, I see you've got your DH (\o/). Can I assume you're going to patch these? I'd like to change the tag if you plan to.

[sarken]

I think I'm going to patch them, but I'm not entirely certain yet. I did something else today -- filed a bug report for and then fixed the hardcoded metadata color in Skittlish -- but, for the life of me, I can't seem to generate the actual patch. I don't want to claim anything else until I'm sure I can actually finish the job.

[ninetydegrees]

Oh you need to assign this bug to yourself (even if it's temporary) because I was about to fix it.
I don't know if I can help because I'm on Windows and I use PuTTY and I know how *this* works but if you're on another OS things can be a little different. (Well, simpler I guess).

P.S. The key thing is that you need to create the patch before you edit the files otherwise you have to force patch creation... I'm trying to remember the command.
P.P.S. Well simply hg qnew -f

[sarken]

Oh, crap, was it already in Bugzilla? I searched for it and couldn't find it, hence creating this one and assigning it to myself.

I'm on a Mac, but there didn't seem to be much of a difference between this and Windows, aside from not having to switch between two programs -- actually, I mostly used the Windows directions, since they were clearer.

The key thing is that you need to create the patch before you edit the files

Oh, that's what I did wrong. From the directions, it seemed like creating the patch was the last thing you were supposed to do. Oops.

[ninetydegrees]

No, don't worry, it wasn't. I thought it was unnassigned because it was marked as new and I didn't think of looking at 'assign to' field. You need to change the two fields: assign to and status. I've changed the status to assigned. Afuna has a handy Greasemonkey script for that if you can use it: http://www.afunamatata.com/greasemonkey/

May I ask which directions you've used? Because I've written a guide for Windows people and I'd like to make it better if it leads to confusion. :)

Try hg qnew -f then. I know I've used it a lot at first because I kept forgetting creating the patch.

[sarken]

I was just about to edit my last comment to say that, yes, now I see it under Before You Fix Anything in your guide. I was just flipping back and forth between a dozen different pages, so I didn't see it earlier.

I assigned it to myself when I created it and didn't realize I had to change the status, so my bad on that, too.

hg qnew -f has created my patch, yay! So, sure, I'll patch these themes.

[ninetydegrees]

Info is kind all over the place, right? :)

No worries, it happens.

Brill!

P.S. Oh and http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2761 in case you hadn't seen it.

[sarken]

All righty, then, I have assigned it to myself.

A question about the guide: when it says to save the patch to your computer, is it referring to a specific way to do that which only works in WinSCP, or is there a way that works for everyone?

[ninetydegrees]

Oh sorry. I have no idea how to do that unless you use WinSCP.

[sarken]

No problem. I'll figure it out eventually. :) Thanks for all your help!

[ninetydegrees]

You're welcome!
BTW, if nobody's available in IRC, remember you can also post to dw_dev_training. I've always gotten fast answers this way. :)

[sarken]

Woot. I figured it out. For future reference, mine or anyone else's: I logged into DH using CyberDuck, selected Show Hidden Files under View, and then dug through the folders until I got to patches. There, I Control+Clicked on the .diff file and selected "Download as."

[ninetydegrees]

Yay! Congrats!

You know, this makes me think that it'd be nice to add things for Mac people to my guide ( like ok Mac people you don't need to do that or you need to do that instead). Or to create an alternate version. Would you help with that?
Anyway, I'm adding what you've mentioned to the Talk page so that it doesn't get lost.

[sarken]

Sure! I was already thinking I'd write a guide for Mac folks after I patched some themes, so I'm glad it's something you think might be useful. (I love that I have been doing this for a grand total of twelve hours, and I'm already like, "Hey, I can teach other people how to do this!" Ego much?)

[ninetydegrees]

(I love that I have been doing this for a grand total of twelve hours, and I'm already like, "Hey, I can teach other people how to do this!" Ego much?)

I think it's great actually! And I believe it helps when you're a newbie yourself because you don't skip the 'easy' parts and remember beginners' mistakes.

[sarken]

My ego has received the smackdown it needed: I'm having a hell of a time patching these themes. While it works fine with the default right sidebar, I can't figure out what I have to change to make the images work when the sidebar is on the left.

ETA: Actually, no, I'm good. Further examination of the layout layer tells me it works just the way I thought it did, and I should have trusted my instincts on this one.

[ninetydegrees]

Glad you figured it out! If you need my help for anything at some point, feel free to e-mail me (you can get my Gmail address via Bugzilla) or PM me. I can also be on Google Talk if you poke me first via other means. Comments are fine too, of course. It's just that deep threads quickly become unpractical, imo.