deskthority - Suggestions and Changelog

[002]

ah - gotcha.
edit: I *might* be able to convert these (if it's just fixing the white icons) if no-one else puts their hand up for it.

[kbdfr]

[...] just a few suggestions:
1 A darker theme (for nighttime), should be a toggle button shown on the pages themselves (imho)- 'lightswitch' [...]

I wonder whether anybody would ever buy a book or newspaper with white characters on a black background.
But as long as the present theme remains as default theme (i.e. even when not logged in), why not?

[002]

If my newspaper was backlit I might buy a black one

[off]

book or newspaper with white characters on a black background.
But as long as the present theme remains as default theme (i.e. even when not logged in), why not?

re books- my monitor is not that classy sadly, uses light for the entire thing :/
Nah srsly, most research thingies mean jack since 9/10 are on paper instead of screens.
So, you never read GH?
And agreed, it should just be a toggle, a lightbulb somewhere on the page that starts on; and can be toggled wether logged in or not. Imho.

[off]

You can't see it in the screenshot, but those light icons are simple gifs with anti-aliasing to a light background. So the edges are wrong.

Woops, missed that mockup; nice!
About those gifs- afaik gifs can have transparent bg instead of white or black right? So wouldn't it work if they aa'd to transparency? (which ofc would require redoing, I'll help though I don't photoshop; just have atm either inkscape or pain.net)
And for sale would be noice!

[off]

And a triplepost; totally different subject: since I just started using the forum Spy.
I noticed it does update and scroll down on new posts, however, posts that you click and open in a new tab won't get marked as read; even after having replied in that thread. Only a refresh properly refreshes the icons to what their current status is.
Any simple fix for that?

[JBert]

You can't see it in the screenshot, but those light icons are simple gifs with anti-aliasing to a light background. So the edges are wrong.

Woops, missed that mockup; nice!
About those gifs- afaik gifs can have transparent bg instead of white or black right? So wouldn't it work if they aa'd to transparency? (which ofc would require redoing, I'll help though I don't photoshop; just have atm either inkscape or pain.net)
And for sale would be noice!

The problem is that GIFs have only one transparent color. This means that if you want fuzzy edges, you need to make the background transparent and blend in some of the background colour into the fuzzy parts.

PNGs don't suffer from this as they have a real alpha channel which allows the browser to blend in with any background colour you want.

[off]

why are we using gifs again?

[ripster]

I'm a huge fan of png.

[off]

That explains it.

[off]

suggestion: How about sorting 'view your posts' in a way that has all topics with unread posts on the top?

and another, probably way more work: How about having the icons autoupdate when needed in all lists (Spy, Bookmarks, View your posts (so search I guess) and Subscribed topics; normal forum would be nice too); so that you'll know in the blink of an eye which you've already clicked. Basically, upgrade Spy and then upgrade the other views to that.
Ideas?

[litster]

Recently, I noticed that sometimes I don't receive notification email when someone posted something new to a thread I have subscribed. Has anyone else experienced the same?

[C'est Cela Oui]

+1 for a dark theme!

[off]

Tip: dark-/lighttheme is available for most sites using a bookmarklet, such as this one:

Spoiler:

Create a new bookmark on your bookmarkbar and paste the following as it's adress. Give it a clear name such as 'invert theme'.

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javascript:(function(){function%20RGBtoHSL(RGBColor){with(Math){var%20R,G,B;var%20cMax,cMin;var%20sum,diff;var%20Rdelta,Gdelta,Bdelta;var%20H,L,S;R=RGBColor[0];G=RGBColor[1];B=RGBColor[2];cMax=max(max(R,G),B);cMin=min(min(R,G),B);sum=cMax+cMin;diff=cMax-cMin;L=sum/2;if(cMax==cMin){S=0;H=0;}else{if(L<=(1/2))S=diff/sum;else%20S=diff/(2-sum);Rdelta=R/6/diff;Gdelta=G/6/diff;Bdelta=B/6/diff;if(R==cMax)H=Gdelta-Bdelta;else%20if(G==cMax)H=(1/3)+Bdelta-Rdelta;else%20H=(2/3)+Rdelta-Gdelta;if(H<0)H+=1;if(H>1)H-=1;}return[H,S,L];}}function%20getRGBColor(node,prop){var%20rgb=getComputedStyle(node,null).getPropertyValue(prop);var%20r,g,b;if(/rgb\((\d+),\s(\d+),\s(\d+)\)/.exec(rgb)){r=parseInt(RegExp.$1,10);g=parseInt(RegExp.$2,10);b=parseInt(RegExp.$3,10);return[r/255,g/255,b/255];}return%20rgb;}function%20hslToCSS(hsl){return%20"hsl("+Math.round(hsl[0]*360)+",%20"+Math.round(hsl[1]*100)+"%,%20"+Math.round(hsl[2]*100)+"%)";}var%20props=["color","background-color","border-left-color","border-right-color","border-top-color","border-bottom-color"];var%20props2=["color","backgroundColor","borderLeftColor","borderRightColor","borderTopColor","borderBottomColor"];if(typeof%20getRGBColor(document.documentElement,"background-color")=="string")document.documentElement.style.backgroundColor="white";revl(document.documentElement);function%20revl(n){var%20i,x,color,hsl;if(n.nodeType==Node.ELEMENT_NODE){for(i=0;x=n.childNodes[i];++i)revl(x);for(i=0;x=props[i];++i){color=getRGBColor(n,x);if(typeof(color)!="string"){hsl=RGBtoHSL(color);hsl[2]=1-hsl[2];n.style[props2[i]]=hslToCSS(hsl);}}}}})()

Funkily enough, deskthority uses a postbackground.png that is a simple white box- you will need to block that using for instance adblockplus, to be able to have a proper dark theme here. Big downside is that you will have to click 'invert theme' after every page load... so it's quite a hack. Can also be used to get geekhack in a light variant ofcourse.


Totally different thing:
I noticed that when hamza used the bump tool on his thread, the last post gets it's posttime edited to the bumptime- basically funkin up my posttime. Might be better if it changed the edit-time of the firstpost, though I'm not sure if that would still work.

[kbdfr]

+1 for a dark theme!

As I wrote some time ago:

I wonder whether anybody would ever buy a book or newspaper with white characters on a black background.
But as long as the present theme remains as default theme (i.e. even when not logged in), why not?

For me, reading white on black is a real pain.
Please have mercy with the elderly!

[itlnstln]

+1 for a dark theme!

As I wrote some time ago:

I wonder whether anybody would ever buy a book or newspaper with white characters on a black background.
But as long as the present theme remains as default theme (i.e. even when not logged in), why not?

For me, reading white on black is a real pain.
Please have mercy with the elderly!

It's not the same thing. A newspaper or book doesn't emit copious amounts of light to burn your retinas. White on black, overall, might be preferred, but for reading on a monitor, I prefer light gray on black or really dark grey. White on black is a little tough, though.

[off]

For me, reading white on black is a real pain.
Please have mercy with the elderly!

And for me, reading black on white is a real pain (on monitors).
Not that much in the daytime though, more so at night. Even though I already turn down monitor brightness&contrast. And I dislike lighting up the room to mimick daytime, I actually like the darkness of night. And hate tv's/monitors that glow up the place, like even in trains these days.

Please have mercy on the nighttimepeople your eyes


EDIT: Yes geekhack and deskthority have conflicting default themes, keep it like that. BUT offer the choice to people like me to have it dark, and to people like kbfr to have it light; that would be awesome imho.

[kbdfr]

[...]For me, reading white on black is a real pain.
Please have mercy with the elderly!

It's not the same thing. A newspaper or book doesn't emit copious amounts of light to burn your retinas. White on black, overall, might be preferred, but for reading on a monitor, I prefer light gray on black or really dark grey. White on black is a little tough, though.

You've got a point there.
Actually the background colour of my screen is not white, but grey (like the background colour of my newspaper, by the way).

I can hardly read geekhack without logging in because of their default theme.
And I find that's another point where deskthority should maintain the difference

[kbdfr]

[...]EDIT: Yes geekhack and deskthority have conflicting default themes, keep it like that. BUT offer the choice to people like me to have it dark, and to people like kbfr to have it light; that would be awesome imho.

That's what I've been saying all the time,
my preference being obviously for the present theme as default theme with an option for members to choose another theme.
That's what geekhack does, but with the dark theme as a default and the opposite option in the preferences.

[off]

+1 for a dark theme!

As I wrote some time ago:

I wonder whether anybody would ever buy a book or newspaper with white characters on a black background.
But as long as the present theme remains as default theme (i.e. even when not logged in), why not?

For me, reading white on black is a real pain.
Please have mercy with the elderly!

^--this sounded contrasting to this--v

[...]EDIT: Yes geekhack and deskthority have conflicting default themes, keep it like that. BUT offer the choice to people like me to have it dark, and to people like kbfr to have it light; that would be awesome imho.

That's what I've been saying all the time,
my preference being obviously for the present theme as default theme with an option for members to choose another theme.
That's what geekhack does, but with the dark theme as a default and the opposite option in the preferences.

[kbdfr]

Well, I would say that between

[...] But as long as the present theme remains as default theme (i.e. even when not logged in), why not?

and

[...] offer the choice to people like me to have it dark, and to people like kbfr to have it light; that would be awesome imho.

there is much less contrast than between black and white

[off]

Well yes, we seem to be on the same page, while half a page up it seemed we were not xD

[RC-1140]

Just wanted to ask, whether there will be a dark theme somewhere in the future. Reading black on white is really uncomfortable for me, with the same reasons as were stated above. When on my (non backlit, E-Ink) ebookreader I prefer black on white as well. But with the backlighting of LCDs I prefer a darker theme. I really love the dark solarized color theme, but that's only me.

[webwit]

Maybe, there's a will, but lack of time.

[ripster]

Since GH pics for some odd reason (not technical AFAIK) and memes not allowed here:

http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?3151 ... post597504

[off]

Another thing, the member lists; would be really helpfull if there was a way to get to a page with all members (with the info as is now) on it, so a ctrl-f would be sufficient.
Especially for finding people from a certain country for instance (esp seeing how everyone tends to fill in that field a bit differently).
(I noticed the existence of '&first_char=t#memberlist' but didn't find how to (if at all possible) mutate that into a sorted by country list.)


And to bring up again the issue of quoting, the extra blank space below it is pretty annoying. Posted before, but yeah.

[off]

And another one:
Quoting fails. Partially.
As in, a post containing one quote shows up in Spy cleanly, i.e. none of the quoted text shows there; but a post containing (I think) a quote inside a quote will show the quoted text of the post containing the other post.. hard to explain clearly (I'll try to do that with an example), but clear when you see it.
i.e.:

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new_post_by_off:
 quote=soarer
  text_by_soarer
   quote=off
    old_text_by_off
   /quote
 /quote
new_text_by_off

Would show up in spy as "text_by_soarer new_text_by_off".

[ripster]

Aren't you High Maintenance. Last time I made a bunch of suggestions to a Keyboard Forum Site Admin I got instabanned.

[off]

You should've seen my ...
ok, you're spot on.


Wording might make a difference in suggesting though.

[ripster]

I told him his teenage moderators could suck my dick and he took it the wrong way.