On Thursday 27 August 2009 16:48:58 Artefact2 wrote: > 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).
Might get a bit large... > > 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). Doesn't look like this for me (it shows the currently selected menu's submenus at the top, and the status bar is all in purple). Artefact2 is working on this... > > 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). On the web-pushing branch they are pushed. IMHO we should make this theme the default after merging web-pushing. > > Thanks for reading & for your replies. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 835 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20090829/60cf5aef/attachment.pgp>
