Hello there, 

I've been working lately on some interface changes. As suggested
previously by toad, we now have a status bar in all themes.

So what is it ? It's a small bar that shows : current node language,
number of connected peers, security levels, simple/advanced mode 
switch & a count of warnings and minor messages.

So we gain a little more space and we have handy information always
availible. Neat. We can also use that status bar to include very cool
things like : number of unread Freemails, number of new messages in the
favourite Freetalk board, a search field... Maybe this will be done
later (long-term).

Here are some screenshots of the status bar with different themes.
Pictures are small, sorry, they are taken from my laptop.

http://tinyurl.com/lq8fx5 Default theme with new statusbar
http://tinyurl.com/l9wdxx Critical errors & alerts are now shown on
every page, and won't appear in the status bar message count.
http://tinyurl.com/law77u Status bar in other themes (grayandblue)

I also did created a new theme, called "Minimalist". As the name
suggests, it's pretty clean, and was inspirated by Google's UIs.

The welcome page was really tweaked, the menu is the same that
clean-dropdown except that it is shown at the very top-left corner of
the screen. The title is shown at the top-right corner, so that this
theme has a very little header (~25px at most, of course that depends on
the size of your fonts).

http://tinyurl.com/ktjawt Welcome page
http://tinyurl.com/n2qr7m Friends page with a purple alert ; critical
errors are shown red.
http://tinyurl.com/mto7eb Statistics page ; as you can see the status
bar is fixed at the bottom (thus always visible).

The theme has been tested (successfully) on Mozilla Firefox (>=3.5),
Opera 10 beta and Chromium (latest nightly build on Linux). So it should
work on most Webkit & Gecko based browsers.

Should we make this theme the default ? The activelinks are forced to be
shown on the welcome page, so it would be great to push them. (Once they
are in the client cache, the loading is a lot faster, almost
unnoticeable).

Thanks for reading & for your replies.
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