VideoLAN Forum style

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Re: VideoLAN Forum style

Postby Arite » 22 Jun 2008 19:13

So you reckon prosilver + the videolan header will work? I'll give it a go.

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Re: VideoLAN Forum style

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 22 Jun 2008 20:35

So you reckon prosilver + the videolan header will work? I'll give it a go.

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Re: VideoLAN Forum style

Postby Arite » 22 Jun 2008 22:58

Do you mean to the left of the VideoLAN logo?

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Re: VideoLAN Forum style

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 22 Jun 2008 23:25

Yes. I do.
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Re: VideoLAN Forum style

Postby MetalheadGautham » 24 Jun 2008 13:49

I think if you DO have free time (ONLY IF YOU HAVE FREE TIME - THIS IS NOT IMPORTANT) add the videolan headder line to the old theme. The whole links line to a single line somewhere in the old theme.

And yes, a link to nightlies.videolan.org will be really really nice

Even the main site needs that link. Whats the point of hiding that page ? Why can't we put it up in the front for all to see ? :evil:
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Re: VideoLAN Forum style

Postby CloudStalker » 24 Jun 2008 15:04

...(ONLY IF YOU HAVE FREE TIME - THIS IS NOT IMPORTANT)
Among other things MetalheadGautham has to say. :lol: Just joking with ya. :P
And yes, a link to nightlies.videolan.org will be really really nice
Yes, when people come into this forum they should know that there are nightly builds available for testing and that, if they still find a bug or feature missing, they can file a ticket.

(directed to j-b) Oh, and on the main page of the trac, users should be reminded to search for a ticket before creating a new one. There are a lot of duplicates made when people forget to search, CloudStalker has made some himself. :roll:

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Re: VideoLAN Forum style

Postby Arite » 24 Jun 2008 15:11

I think if you DO have free time (ONLY IF YOU HAVE FREE TIME - THIS IS NOT IMPORTANT) add the videolan headder line to the old theme. The whole links line to a single line somewhere in the old theme.
OK well I'll post a screenshot etc. of prosilver with just the videolan header added to overall_header.html (which is what I started off doing originally).
And yes, a link to nightlies.videolan.org will be really really nice

Even the main site needs that link. Whats the point of hiding that page ? Why can't we put it up in the front for all to see ? :evil:
Yes, that could be useful. I suppose the nightlies site could be added to the header, however it is not necessarily a link which standard users might want. The reason the nightlies site is used so much is since there are so many changes in the 0.9.0-git builds since the current stable bugfix releases of 0.8.6 - once 0.9.0 is released the nightlies site would probably not be used as much by standard users (if you see what I mean :)?).

The nighlies site is linked from the developes page. Still, it could be added to the header bar I suppose. Another place could be on the VLC media player (i.e. download page) in a "panel-orange" class division on the right.

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Re: VideoLAN Forum style

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 24 Jun 2008 16:27

I don't really know but something that is sure now is that this two headers lines are a mess and not consistent between the websites...

I will think about something about it when I have time
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Re: VideoLAN Forum style

Postby Arite » 24 Jun 2008 17:56

I don't really know but something that is sure now is that this two headers lines are a mess and not consistent between the websites...
True, I just based the forum one on the VideoLAN planet one since that is also a separate subdomain to the main website.

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Re: VideoLAN Forum style

Postby MetalheadGautham » 25 Jun 2008 20:56

I think there is enough space here to add a Nightlies link on the headder and still ensure that atleast 1024x768 resolution users are able to see the full header.

And the videolan logo on the search bar must redirect to the main site, not the forums. The FORUMS link must redirect to the forums :lol:
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Re: VideoLAN Forum style

Postby Arite » 01 Jul 2008 16:02

Just a test:

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Only thing with that is that the header bar would not be identical to other VideoLAN sites. I suppose an alternative would be placing it to the right of where the "VideoLAN" logo is currently - however unless abosolute positioning is used (which has cross-browser compatibility issues IIRC), the structure would need to be modified again.

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Re: VideoLAN Forum style

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 01 Jul 2008 16:17

I don't think this would be an issue until we decide on how we change the toolbar across the sites.
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Re: VideoLAN Forum style

Postby joseph5 » 10 Jul 2008 02:56

And yes, a link to nightlies.videolan.org will be really really nice
Even the main site needs that link. Whats the point of hiding that page ? Why can't we put it up in the front for all to see ? :evil:
That would be risky, because many newbies will think that the latest nightly is the latest official release, and since it probably is very buggy, they'll badmouth VLC everywhere and nobody will download the player anymore and the project will have to die a horrible death... :twisted:
Of course, this could probably be easily avoided with a huge RED WARNING at the top of the nightlies page. :mrgreen:

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Re: VideoLAN Forum style

Postby Arite » 04 Aug 2008 21:42

Since there isn't much to do really to the theme could I ask for the following to be placed on line 106 of common.css (located in styles/videolan/theme):

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padding: 0 0px 12px;
Which just appends 12px to make the bottom padding 12px as it is with the default prosilver theme.

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Re: VideoLAN Forum style

Postby dionoea » 23 Aug 2008 22:23

Just my 2 cents: I like the version with the subtitles pref cone in the tool bar next to the VideoLAN logo. (and about nightlies ... it might become dangerous soon to have a nightlies link since 0.9.0 will be out and massive breakage is likely to happen again ... except if we have links to 0.9.0 bugfix nightlies)
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