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Topic: Style naming help needed

I'm not very fond of the current naming of the styles (Light and Blue, Dark and Green ...). What should they be called instead? I was thinking of using some form of "uniform naming scheme". They could i.e. be named after cities or planets. Does that sound like a good idea?

Examples:
- Chicago, Kairo, Vancouver, Berlin ...
- Neptune, Mars, Saturn, Mercury ...
- Delta, Lambda, Omega, Gamma ...

What do you think?

Note: This is the last change I am planning before the release of 1.0 RC 2.

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Re: Style naming help needed

I'll think "Neptune, Mars, Saturn, Mercury" was kinda nice.

But you should if you take like "Mars" make the style red, like the planet mars. smile

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Re: Style naming help needed

I have more or less decided on using the names of the elements (from the periodic table). This is what I have come up with so far:

Light and Blue = Oxygen
Dark and Green = Radium
Dark and Yellow = Mercury
Dark and Blue = Cobalt
New "Light and Green" = Lithium
New "Light and Red" = Sulfur

How does that sound?

Edit: Switched two of them and added a second new style.

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Re: Style naming help needed

Sounds nice to me.

  • From: 127.0.0.1
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Re: Style naming help needed

Ok, good. You and a few people on IRC gave their thumbs up, so that'll do :-)

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6 Reply by TwaN

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Re: Style naming help needed

Can't you add the new styles in this forum? smile

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Re: Style naming help needed

I will when I update to RC2 (which will hopefully be today).

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8 Reply by toby

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Re: Style naming help needed

How about
Plutonium - green/dark grey/yellow
Astatine - dark grey/black/white

9 Reply by Louis (edited by Louis 2004-02-11 01:09)

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Re: Style naming help needed

All I can say is that to me, the most confusing aspect of the PunBB User Interface is the colour scheme selection. You don't have a clue what they are besides these element names from the periodic table. Maybe we could do something like this:

http://texturizer.net/firefox/themes/

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Re: Style naming help needed

True. In the first betas of PunBB they were called "Light and Blue", "Dark and Green" etc. I didn't like that.

What about that link to texturizer.net? Do you mean we should have thumbnails of all the styles in profile.php? In that case, no no no :D

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11 Reply by Dale

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Re: Style naming help needed

toby wrote:

How about
Plutonium - green/dark grey/yellow
Astatine - dark grey/black/white


Nice name to them wink

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12 Reply by Louis

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Re: Style naming help needed

Rickard wrote:

Do you mean we should have thumbnails of all the styles in profile.php? In that case, no no no :D

But think of the usability enhancement! Besides, all it would cost is a couple of bytes of CSS -- err ah, never mind. It was a bad example anyway, since it used JavaScript. I was thinking of just using CSS with a :hover effect applied ... but anyway ;)

13 Reply by hupf

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Re: Style naming help needed

I like the idea with the cities, although it doesn't say anything about the colours.