Four Color Themes for Brittle (Villains Series)

[musyc]

Theme name/layout: Bad Fairy / Brittle
Author: Musyc
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Theme name/layout: Fur Coat / Brittle
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Theme name/layout: Mountain Devil / Brittle
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Theme name/layout: Powerful Genie / Brittle
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Comments

[musyc]

I know I had to do some dancing with Brittle because for some reason "page" colors were over-riding "entry" and "module" colors no matter what I put in. They worked previously. Is this a change in displaying as a result of http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2976?

[ninetydegrees]

As far as I know page colors are never used in Brittle, meaning sidebar modules are often unreadable, especially with bright colors. Bug #2976 will fix that. Does that answer your question?

[musyc]

That bug actually makes things worse, as far as I can tell. By forcing modules to use page colors, I can't set modules to have a different background/links so as to match the navigation.

Brittle also forces entries/footer to use page colors for links - http://musycal-test2.dreamwidth.org/ - I've set the entries to use the same colors as the nav module, but they're showing with page colors. Background is the only color responding independently. The only way to prevent this is either by removing page colors entirely thus making modules (less navmodule) unreadable or by forcing all colors to match page-colors.

Edit for grammar fail.

[ninetydegrees]

Brittle also forces entries/footer to use page colors for links
Oh thanks. I'll make sure to edit my patch to make sure entries/footer modules links use all entry link colors.

By forcing modules to use page colors, I can't set modules to have a different background/links so as to match the navigation.

Only the navigation module was meant to have a background colors hence its own set of link colors. If you want to apply a background color to other modules, you need to use custom CSS.

[musycal_test2]

(I've screwed up my login three times. *stops switching*)

I generally only work with CSS, so bear with me if I'm not understanding How Things Work with this.

Okay, as I understand it, the patch will cause two things to occur.
A. Modules in the sidebar will use page background/link/text colors.
B. Entries and footer will use entry links (should also either force footer to use entry background or separate footer/entry entirely, or unreadability is still an option).

However, I've now run into a different problem. Modules in the sidebar using page colors = eh, can work around. Don't like the way it's designed, but that's not your fault. The problem now is if I-as-user split the modules half and half, the modules in the sidebar (group one) become readable using page text/link/background, but the modules in the pseudo-footer (group two) become unreadable, as they're using entry background (and I suspect entry text/link, but I can't tell that for certain without the patch).

[musycal_test2]

Correction: Pseudo-footer group two modules, archive, and tags use entry background but page text/link.

[ninetydegrees]

If you're interested, you can see how the style is coded at http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/advanced/layersource?id=82590.

The patch I've submitted will only do A. I'll do B in a second patch except it will work for entries and "footer" modules and not entries and footer. #footer is restricted to the 'top of page' box. The "footer" modules are in #tertiary.

#tertiary already uses color_entry_background so links should always be readable there if you use entry link colors. Headers aren't an issue because they already use color_entry_title, which should be readable over color_entry_background.

If you'd like to have the possibility to separate page colors and sidebar module colors or even to separate footer module colors and entry colors, dw_suggestions is the way to go. This kind of suggestion is generally accepted.

[musyc]

Okay, I believe I have these corrected according to what the patches will fix, not according to how they show currently-with-bugs. Also corrected a small issue in Mountain Devil.

[ninetydegrees]

Perfect, thanks. My apologies for any confusion over live vs not live.
I didn't see any change in Mountain Devil, though.

(BTW, if you want to check that things look alright, you can create an account on my Dreamhack; no invite code needed).

[musyc]

Awesome! Thank you, I've done that. This will be very useful. XD