Comments on new SMF theme

[bloc]

Locked topics are usually done so for a reason. Therefore its logical to give it some importance. Italic style made it perhaps too much of that...but background-color change doesn't IMHO.

[Rudolf]

Locked topics are usually done so for a reason. Therefore its logical to give it some importance. Italic style made it perhaps too much of that...but background-color change doesn't IMHO.

Just one small note about background. Emphasised rows shouldn't use alternating background for the columns.
Look at the General English Support. There are fours different background colors and it's a total mess. From first look it's just impossible to understand what's connected to what. I spent years on this forum and I adapt very good to the changes, but this is just too much. Now locked topic became grey, which makes it even worst.

As a first thing you should remove the alternating from the columns for the emphasised rows. Whatever color you chose for sticky vs locked topics use it on the whole row.
Then you can see how to make it look better.

[Joshua Dickerson]

Locked topics are usually done so for a reason. Therefore its logical to give it some importance. Italic style made it perhaps too much of that...but background-color change doesn't IMHO.

I disagree with wanting to put emphasis on them. In my own observations, when a topic is locked, people want it to eventually go away. Topics they want to stay around are stickied.

[bloc]

Alright, I will try that.

[Rudolf]

It is so much better, also graying the locked topics makes them look perfect. It really gives the idea of something finished and/or inactive. I love it that way.

[Dannii]

Now if only you could fade the icons too

[Rudolf]

Now if only you could fade the icons too

Exactly, I thought about that but it seemed too much to ask. 
You can give a transparency to the lock icon:

Code (css) Select Expand


.lockicon
{
opacity:.35;
filter: alpha(opacity=35);
}

should work in most browsers.

[brianjw]

This theme is AWESOME. It's alot better than the old one I think. And I think this should be the SMF Default theme for the next version of smf. What do you guys think?

[alienine]

It is so much better, also graying the locked topics makes them look perfect. It really gives the idea of something finished and/or inactive. I love it that way.

I am also very pleased with that look Getting better...

[klumy]

agree

[digger]

It looks not so fine in Opera

[shadow82x]

Ehhhh I dont know..

[Deaks]

I think they might make it the default, or at least include it as it is pretty cool

[brianjw]

Yes.

[shadow82x]

I dont think they will make it as deafult everyone knows the normal theme as it right now

[brianjw]

Is this theme a SMF only theme, which jsut can be used on this website, or will the be a part of the default SMF distribution?

You'll have to wait and see 

Thats good news.

[RebelRose]

The new look is very nice and clean looking, great job to the designer 

[Jorin]

I think that this new theme is pretty erm.. "ugly", compared to the previous one.

I really dont like this new theme.

* EdwinK agrees. At first I thought there was something wrong with styles or so. Maybe it is just getting used to though.

Don't like it too. In my oppinion it looks like 2 themes build into 1. Don't like the strong blue in on.gif, dont like the + and - buttons when collapsing boards, don't like the phpBB colours (blue, orange)...

[Daniel15]

It looks not so fine in Opera

What issues are you encountering in Opera? I use Opera, and it looks fine for me

Is this theme a SMF only theme, which jsut can be used on this website, or will the be a part of the default SMF distribution?

You'll have to wait and see 

Thats good news.

I didn't promise anything... I'm actually not too sure what will happen . My suggestion is to wait and see what happens...

[brianjw]

I like the theme but the area where the news can show [if you want]. It's kind of ugly