[Am']

Excuse me for this rotten English (euhhh rotten ? nice google hhh), the original message was in Arabic before I translated into English by google translation :p

Hello,

I expressed in my modests suggestions and improvements for the new style curve, I hope they will be adapted to future versions of the theme ^^

   
1 - Improve the design and quote code

> Good is true that there's been an improvement over the old styles, but this is not enough, personally I propose:

for quote style :


for code:



2- Add buttons to quote, edit, delete text instead of icons accompanied by a text (a little ugly in my opinion)



3 - To better distinguish the topics singled / normal subjects, here I added an icon to the left and a bar to distinguish the types of subjects:


   
4 - Finding better images for the subjects read and unread topics, these currents are ugly and we do not see too much difference



here if there's an answer to a subject i replaced  "normal_post.gif" by "normal_post_new.gif"

I would not hesitate to share with you my suggestions:)

[Nolt]

Point 3 I agree with you. Also what is missing in SMF is global announcement topic which can be viewed in all forums/subforums.

[Arantor]

Also what is missing in SMF is global announcement topic which can be viewed in all forums/subforums.

There's a mod for that. Have a search for 'global' on the mod site, IIRC.


Point 1: I don't personally like that style, I feel it breaks it up too much. There have already been discussions on changing the quote style. (Bear in mind that I spend 12+ hours most days staring at Curve.)

Point 2: It's a theme change. It won't be in Curve by default, I suspect. Note that Core before it did exactly the same.

Point 3: Note that the colour is also different in the background too.

Point 4: There's no icon like you're suggesting in Curve. Instead there is this which appears by threads you haven't read yet/fully:

[Motoko-chan]

Point 2 is also hard on translation since if you use graphical buttons, you'd need to make legible images for each item. Classic and Babylon did that, and there is a reason we've moved away from it.

[Sverre]

Point 2 is also hard on translation since if you use graphical buttons

Perhaps the buttonlist class could be a viable alternative for this?



or

[Nolt]

There's a mod for that. Have a search for 'global' on the mod site, IIRC.

Yes, I know but would be better to have this option as additional (like sticky, locked etc.).

[Arantor]

It's not going to be in 2.0. I don't think it'll be in 2.1; certainly no-one has mentioned it being in 2.1.

[Nolt]

Too bad, we dont have guarantee that mod authors will update theyr mods to work with SMF 2.0 I dont know if someone will agree with me but this option is very helpful if we want announce somthing on forum. But... thanks for anserw

[Am']

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?action=help;area=message_view

design it is not bad ? 

[Arantor]

So what would you change with it?

The idea is to represent the layout on the page...

[Antechinus]

Hadn't checked that one but yes, it is bad. I certainly have some ideas for sorting it so will take a closer look.