Re: feedback on new wiki theme

2008-09-08 Thread Neal McBurnett
On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 05:45:42PM -0500, Matthew Nuzum wrote: > > I disagree - the problem with fixed width is that at some point we have to > > make assumptions as to the screen size used to access as well as how the > > reader wants to read the information. I feel that these both should be left

Re: feedback on new wiki theme

2008-09-07 Thread Matthew East
Thank you everyone for your comments so far. I've already made changes to my branch which address some of the comments. I can't reply individually to each suggestion but I'm considering them all. Please keep them coming! -- Matthew East http://www.mdke.org gnupg pub 1024D/0E6B06FF -- Ubuntu-d

Re: feedback on new wiki theme

2008-09-07 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Friday 05 September 2008 16:56, Matthew East wrote: > Hi, > > Recently I've been developing a new theme which is intended to replace > the existing themes on the documentation wiki > (https://help.ubuntu.com/community). The intention of the theme is to > make reading the wiki easier for a user (

Re: feedback on new wiki theme

2008-09-07 Thread Niels Egberts
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Remco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This gives you an "ie6.css" file that's rendered in all IEs before IE7, > > and an ie7.css that's rendered in all IEs before IE8. IE8 allegedly > > won't need its own file of special cases, but it should be obvious how > > to ex

Re: feedback on new wiki theme

2008-09-07 Thread Remco
> This gives you an "ie6.css" file that's rendered in all IEs before IE7, > and an ie7.css that's rendered in all IEs before IE8. IE8 allegedly > won't need its own file of special cases, but it should be obvious how > to extend the technique if you find that's not the case. This technique > is b

Re: feedback on new wiki theme

2008-09-07 Thread Andrew Sayers
I don't like fixed width pages personally (my computer should do what I want, not what someone else wants me to want), but you can appease more reasonable people by changing "width: NNNpx" statements to "width: NNem" or "max-width: NNem". Using "em" rather than "px" fixes the width at a certain nu

Re: feedback on new wiki theme

2008-09-07 Thread Phil Bull
Hi guys, On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 23:09 +0100, Matthew East wrote: > On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Jordan Mantha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is a very nice theme and looks more professional and usable to > > me. My only complaint is that it's rather narrow on all my computers > > (widescre

RE: feedback on new wiki theme

2008-09-07 Thread Dougie Richardson
Hi, > I think it's appropriate to go with a fixed-width theme for the > documentation site because content here is meant to be read as a page. > The wiki formating should be adjusted to generally work at this width. > Consistency with ubuntu.com is also a plus! I disagree - the problem with fixed

RE: feedback on new wiki theme

2008-09-06 Thread Christopher Houdeshell
ge name is not allowed. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Henrik Nilsen Omma Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2008 8:42 AM To: Matthew East Cc: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Ubuntu Doc Subject: Re: feedback on new

Re: feedback on new wiki theme

2008-09-06 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Matthew East wrote: > Hi, > > Recently I've been developing a new theme which is intended to replace > the existing themes on the documentation wiki > (https://help.ubuntu.com/community). The intention of the theme is to > make reading the wiki easier for a user (so the interface should be > clean

Re: feedback on new wiki theme

2008-09-06 Thread Andrew Mathenge
I'm trying to view the new theme but having a problem logging into help! I've never seen this type of problem before, perhaps someone out there has. I'm able to login but the credentials at the top-right aren't displayed properly. I've attached a screenshot. It may be something that I'm doing. T

Re: feedback on new wiki theme

2008-09-06 Thread Connor Imes
Jordan Mantha wrote: > On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Matthew East <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Recently I've been developing a new theme which is intended to replace >> the existing themes on the documentation wiki >> (https://help.ubuntu.com/community). The intention of the theme

RE: feedback on new wiki theme

2008-09-06 Thread Dougie Richardson
Hi all, > This is a very nice theme and looks more professional and usable to > me. My only complaint is that it's rather narrow on all my computers > (widescreen laptop and LCD displays). It looks like we're losing an > awful lot of screen real estate. Is it possible to make it a fluid > rather t

Re: feedback on new wiki theme

2008-09-05 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 06.09.2008 um 00:00 schrieb Mackenzie Morgan: > On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 14:31 -0700, Jordan Mantha wrote: >> This is a very nice theme and looks more professional and usable to >> me. My only complaint is that it's rather narrow on all my computers >> (widescreen laptop and LCD displays). It loo

Re: feedback on new wiki theme

2008-09-05 Thread Neal McBurnett
On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 06:07:49PM -0400, Connor Imes wrote: > Jordan Mantha wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Matthew East <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Recently I've been developing a new theme which is intended to replace > >> the existing themes on the documentation wiki > >> (https:

Re: feedback on new wiki theme

2008-09-05 Thread Jordan Mantha
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Mackenzie Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 14:31 -0700, Jordan Mantha wrote: >> This is a very nice theme and looks more professional and usable to >> me. My only complaint is that it's rather narrow on all my computers >> (widescreen laptop

Re: feedback on new wiki theme

2008-09-05 Thread Matthew East
Hi Jordan! On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Jordan Mantha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a very nice theme and looks more professional and usable to > me. My only complaint is that it's rather narrow on all my computers > (widescreen laptop and LCD displays). It looks like we're losing an >

Re: feedback on new wiki theme

2008-09-05 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 14:31 -0700, Jordan Mantha wrote: > This is a very nice theme and looks more professional and usable to > me. My only complaint is that it's rather narrow on all my computers > (widescreen laptop and LCD displays). It looks like we're losing an > awful lot of screen real estat

Re: feedback on new wiki theme

2008-09-05 Thread Jordan Mantha
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Matthew East <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Recently I've been developing a new theme which is intended to replace > the existing themes on the documentation wiki > (https://help.ubuntu.com/community). The intention of the theme is to > make reading the wiki ea

Re: feedback on new wiki theme

2008-09-05 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/9/6 Matthew East <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 10:12 PM, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I do not see anything as having changed. Could you post a few static >> pages, both with the new and old themes? > > There are some screenshots here - http://doc.ubuntu.com/~mdke/

Re: feedback on new wiki theme

2008-09-05 Thread Matthew East
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 10:12 PM, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I do not see anything as having changed. Could you post a few static > pages, both with the new and old themes? There are some screenshots here - http://doc.ubuntu.com/~mdke/wikitheme/ Note that the testing theme is availab

Re: feedback on new wiki theme

2008-09-05 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/9/5 Matthew East <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > Recently I've been developing a new theme which is intended to replace > the existing themes on the documentation wiki > (https://help.ubuntu.com/community). The intention of the theme is to > make reading the wiki easier for a user (so the inter