Four: EasyRead

[ex_rising236]

Was looking through colours, and decided to make some EasyRead themes!

Theme name/layout: Aqua · EasyRead
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Light on dark, with not too much variation between the different text colours, and a text colour that is desaturated enough that it's easy for me to look at on the dark background.

Theme name/layout: Desert · EasyRead
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Pretty standard dark on light, with a pale yellow background rather than white, and a gentler blue/brown link scheme.

Theme name/layout: Desert Dark · EasyRead
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Light on dark but not too dark brown, slightly mid level contrast overall.

Theme name/layout: Mint Julep · EasyRead
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Dark on light, with obviously, a pale green theme for the background/entry background/header colour.

Comments

[turlough]

I really like the colours of Desert. Very soothing.

[ex_rising236]

Thank you!

Ta-da!

[ninetydegrees]

Hi rising,

So that you know where you're at: all the themes you submitted before August 1st have been committed except the Paletteable and T3 ones where you've modified the opacity of the icons. These need a patch which hasn't been made yet.

Re: Ta-da!

[ex_rising236]

Alright! (In which case I will probably also stop modifying the opacity of the icons for future Paletteable themes … out of curiosity, what's the bug that needs patched that hasn't been made yet? I may not be able to do so but I might do something like offer a bounty for it, or something of the like, since well, the opacity thing is one of my favourite little hacks and I'd love to see that patch happen and all. :P)

Re: Ta-da!

[ninetydegrees]

While I love the opacity thing too, I don't think most people do when icons are opaque by default and since we had suggestions/support requests asking to remove icon shrinkage, I'm pretty sure that'd also happen in this case. So, the idea is to create an option that could be activated/deactivated in a theme even though it's not enabled in the style in general (and vice-versa if we ever need it).

And here's the bug: http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3610

Re: Ta-da!

[ex_rising236]

*nods.*

The other thing is that I'd be perfectly fine with say, patching the Paletteable themes without the opacity trick or something like that, and then updating them (myself if necessary!) later when we do have the option? They're pretty and I like the trick, but I like the colours and would rather see them available, if that makes sense. (and can easily go to the theme layers, and just comment it out or add a /* Do not include in patch */ /* End do not include in patch */ line or something? if that would work.)

Re: Ta-da!

[ninetydegrees]

Hmm. If they're updated later, the option would have to be turned off by default so that people wouldn't be surprised to see their journal change. You ok with that?

Re: Ta-da!

[ex_rising236]

That's fine! And then maybe it could be announced in a news post or something that there's a new option in some themes (including whatever themes) to enable xyz icon opacity?

Re: Ta-da!

[ninetydegrees]

If it works for you, it works for me! :)

Re: Ta-da!

[ex_rising236]

Kk. I'll go edit the theme layers soon to comment out the sections, and then let you know. :)