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Matrixman wrote:If at all possible, I'd rather NOT have the Watch be a copy of a David Eddings forum, thanks. SRD fans deserve better than that.

Edited version of earlier post. The name "Eddings" tends to provoke, er, destructive emotions in me. But I've calmed down, and retained my Oath of Peace. :roll:
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Post by amanibhavam »

Hellfire and bloody damnation. I do not say that we should have an exact copy. I just wanted to point out that rearranging the color scheme a bit - i.e., having more pastel colours for the post background and darker for the rims-borders etc. could improve readability etc.
I do not read Eddings, the name doesn't bear any emotion to me.
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Joy wrote:It took so long to get over my headache last time, that only now have I nerved myself to try it again.

Here are my observations:
I can't see anything in the left-hand column of the first four forums. All the way down in the Scatterlings forum, there is something. That column shows the box with the kind of X that indicates a link to a graphic is broken.

The scroll button is invisible.

The list of members who have been here in the last 48 hours is gone.

I don't see the chat room. No access and it's not on the menu.

In the threads: For the Joined, Posts, and Location info, I have to select them to read them. Same with any title that doesn't have color effects.

I think there should be some color difference or box outline, setting Quotes off from the text of the person currently posting.
I'm not entirely understanding your problems, Joy. It may just be something with the display on your computer. I've sen this theme on my home computer (Windows XP, IE6) and on school computers (Windows 2000, IE5), and in both it looks exactly the same, and no visibility problems.

->Icons on the index are showing for me, thouh we do need to make bigger versions instead of those little things. Only ones not showing are the ones that don't exist for this theme yet - subforums.

->Scrollbar's dark, but for me I can see it ok, although it does sometimes take a second to tell it apart from the rest of the bar.

->Members in last 48 hours is a mod, so it hasn't been added to the theme yet (you have to understand, these things don't just automatically appear on every theme, they have to be added into the code).

->Chat - See above.

->Hmm - for me, I see the locatio/posts/etc in grey on the brown background, so no problems seeing them... You mean they appear in brown on your browser?

->Erm... The quotes are all appearing in a big dark-grey box w/. black border, so they are set apart from the rest...


To Vain - Colour suggestions: Change the orange link colours to something less orange: FFCC66, FFCC33, or FFFF33, if any of those looks right (doubt the last one will, but worth a look)
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Post by Dragonlily »

Resetting it to True Color (32 bit) doesn't make it any better, so I think you're just going to have to accept that I'm not lying.
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Didn't say you were lying...
Which IE version is it you're using?
It seems strange that some people would have trouble and some wouldn't, esp. with the same browser...
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Post by I'm Murrin »

After 5 days of Brown, I finally got tired of the lack of mods and ran back to familiarity. I could probably keep the other theme long term if it had the mods installed (and maybe if there was more contrast on the 'new post' indicators), but for now i'm comfortable back in subSilver.
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Post by matrixman »

It's been a while since our somewhat heated colour scheme controversy. I'm curious to know if Vain is still intending to implement a full working version of the Brown scheme with all the features in place. Am I the only bloke on the Watch who still likes it?
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Post by The Leper Fairy »

Ehhh, I prefer the subSilver one a lot better.
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I'd almost forgotten about the brown, to tell the truth.
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I've never seen it, and I don't know how to. Never mind, it doesn't sound like I'm missing much
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Post by CovenantJr »

Eek, now I see it! It's very dark...very grim... But I'm going to keep it for a while, for the novelty 8)
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Post by matrixman »

Like a skipping record or CD, I'm here again asking if Vain has any plans to tweak or fix some of the niggly things in the Brown scheme, or if he has essentially given up on it. I know the Brown scheme wasn't very popular, but I like it. I've been using it frequently since I got my hands on it.

The only real "niggly" problem is that the chat function has not been implemented, so I have to switch back to the Classic scheme in order to see who's on chat and to join in. Will this ever be resolved, or is it not worth the hassle?

One other minor problem is the emoticon box. When you click to maximize the view of the inventory, the emoticons don't expand to fill the space. They all remain squished to one side, so it's hard to make out a number of them.

On the whole, after all this time, I'm still very pleased with Brown. If Vain has no intention of doing any more work on it, I can live with that. I just hope he doesn't intend to remove it entirely either: I don't want to be parted from my Brown!

Okay, got that off my chest. :)
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Post by kevinswatch »

Shhh! If you don't bring it up, the Vain will forget about it! Heh...

Personally, I didn't really like the color change too much... I guess I'm just lame like that...heh.-jay
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Post by Vain »

I still want to work on fixing that scheme :) Send me a PM to remind me please MM
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Post by dANdeLION »

I really liked the brown scheme, but had a hard time tracking my packages :screwy:
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