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State of the Styles, post code-push 0.4.0
First, the big news:
There's a new module available for paid and premium users and communities, which contains a list of your latest active entries.
We are aware that it's showing up in the header in some styles (notably Transmogrified and Sunday Morning -- we'll be double-checking the other styles to make sure the module shows up where it belongs), and we'll have that fixed by next code push. In the meantime if it is showing up in a strange location in your journal, you can modify its position, or deactivate it here:
http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/options?group=modules
Under the cut: new themes, changes affecting your journal, changes affecting journal customization, other notable styles-related entries.
Much thanks goes to![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
ninetydegrees, wyntarvox, and zvi, who have been rocking the patches. And much <33 and appreciation to everyone who's submitted a theme or layout -- we're still working our way through the submissions, and we're always looking for more!
We haven't done these in a while, so let me introduce you to the themes newly available with this code push:
There's a new module available for paid and premium users and communities, which contains a list of your latest active entries.
We are aware that it's showing up in the header in some styles (notably Transmogrified and Sunday Morning -- we'll be double-checking the other styles to make sure the module shows up where it belongs), and we'll have that fixed by next code push. In the meantime if it is showing up in a strange location in your journal, you can modify its position, or deactivate it here:
http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/options?group=modules
Under the cut: new themes, changes affecting your journal, changes affecting journal customization, other notable styles-related entries.
Much thanks goes to
ninetydegrees, wyntarvox, and zvi, who have been rocking the patches. And much <33 and appreciation to everyone who's submitted a theme or layout -- we're still working our way through the submissions, and we're always looking for more!New themes
We haven't done these in a while, so let me introduce you to the themes newly available with this code push:
- Bases has two new themes by malionette: Beechy (green, with yellow accents. Background is striped vertically in shades of green), Steele (steely greys)
- Boxes and Borders has a new theme by cesy: Light on Dark (just as it says on the label: gray text and borders on a black background)
- Brittle has three new themes by dancing_serpent: Old Roses, Soft Blue, Soft Green
- Drifting has two new themes: Go by zvi (bright green, like the stop light), Soft Blues by ambrya (soft blues, with a dark castle header)
- Fluid Measure has two new themes by dancing_serpent: Pigeon Blue (clean shades of blue), and Beach After Sunset (dusky oranges and aquas)
- Modish has one new theme by zvi: Clean Sheets (whites and blues with orange accents -- fresh and clean)
- Negatives has a new theme by wide_worlds_joy: Azure (strong shades of blue) -- this theme also caused us to introduce a left sidebar option for Negatives
- ETA: Missed these before. Transmogrified has twelve new themes. Three are by dancing_serpent: Frozen Sky (pale blues), Dark Forest (verdant greens; light on dark), Forest Green (verdant greens; dark on light); nine are by branchandroot: Brick Hearth (muted shades of orange), Coming Down Blue (sky blues), Dignified (elegant greys), Dusty Raspberry (dusty greys and reds), Midnight (dark blues and browns), Rose Ice Cream (rose and whites), Slow Green, Spring Green, Summer Peach
On your journal
- We renamed .ljedittime to .edittime as part of an ongoing cleanup effort
- Added a clearing #content-footer div to Tabula Rasa (and hence, Tabula-Rasa based styles)
- For Negatives, added a two-columns-left layout
- For Funky Circles, prevented userpic from overlapping entries with small font sizes
- ETA: For Transmogrified, modified page background to a deeper shade of turquoise, as per designer's wishes.
- We added CSS classes for the pagesummary module so you can style the contents.
- We're persisting more arguments across links, for convenience: ?filter=0 is persisted to skip links, ?s2id=/style=mine/style=light are persisted across more links (journal views, thread links, etc). Among other things, this means that when you preview a theme on your journal, you can easily see how your journal looks in other views
- We picked up a patch from LiveJournal (thanks LJ!), so now we only show skip links if there are earlier entries to look at, catching an edge case when the number of entries left matched the number of entries that could fit on the page exactly
- We no longer show the /network link on paid communities
- We fixed a bug which caused cross-site user tags in entry subjects to show up as if they were Dreamwidth users
- We fixed another bug, where the expand links did not show on comments without replies (they do now)
- And then still yet another bug, where, if you set your journal to default to adult content, all entries on your read page were marked as having adult content
- We picked up another patch from LiveJournal, so now comment pages in the site scheme will display the number of comments (not quite style-system related, but close enough)
- We added a link back to the journal if there are no next/previous entries
In the customize and advanced customization areas
- We now automatically alphabetize properties in custom layers when saving from /customize (but not from /layeredit)
- We've removed the 'show only available styles' checkbox from http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/ because all styles are available to all users.
- We've opened up ?s2id=x to all users / on all journals as long as all the layers in the style are public -- either system layers, or have a "layerinfo is_public = 1;". The limitation is to address privacy concerns, since some people hardcode text into their layers which is only meant to be viewable to them. Previously, ?s2id=x only worked on your own journal, or when you were viewing someone else's paid journals
- We no longer apply custom (non-auto-generated) user layers, when previewing styles. This should catch some strange instances of "crossed wires" several layout authors have run into while previewing their designs
- We did refactoring for how arguments are passed to ItemRange -- e.g., #comments, to page # of # comments. Should be no user-facing changes
- We separated the variables for the header, footer, entry links in Negatives; your themes should still display the same as before, but just now have an option to make the colors differ from one another
ETA: It's been pointed out that due to the interaction between system-provided themes and personal customizations, the above statement is not strictly true. If your header/footer/entry footer colors changed, go to http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/options?group=style. The relevant properties that need changing are under the header and footer subheaders (you may need to expand these first), and also the "entry interaction link background color" under the entry subheader. I'm really sorry for the inconvenience.
Notable styles-related entries this week
- How to create a theme layer for advanced customization
- Custom reading list colors built into all core 2 styles
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