As you've probably noticed, it's been a little while since I last posted here. In truth, I'm not currently working on any more themes for the moment. I probably will in time, I'm just taking a little break for the time being.
In the meantime, here are just a few themes that I've considered, and their eventual fate:
Vista-aero - Dropped - Internal filesystem used by the original developer was too confusing to work with, plus the plethora of odd files with seemingly endless links and dependencies on other internal files. Have yet to look at another theme by the same developer (that, in my opinion, looks exactly the same as Vista-aero), BlueSky, though it's doubtful that the filesystem will be any cleaner.
Whitehart - Dropped - For some reason, even though the edits to the theme were near-identical to my other theme updates, this theme broke completely when trying to update it. Also, I'd need to get in contact with the original maintainer to publish this, anyway. I did, however, give the icons and other assorted files that I added/edited to a similar project that had the mere intention of making the theme work rather than be usable; whether they received that, however, I am unsure.
MidnightFox - Consideration - I'm still unsure if I want to work on this or not; I wouldn't be able to easily produce some of the additional icons (zoom controls, feed button, sync) in order to match the style of the theme, but I suppose it still wouldn't look too bad if I just used the stock icons for those. I would also need to get into contact with the theme's original developer, since they've specifically asked to be contacted if such a situation were to arise. I'm not saying anything's definite at the moment, though, but it's still possible, unless I find it breaks like Whitehart did.
Of course, if any readers out there have any ideas for themes, feel free to mention them.
Thanks for updating the Past Modern theme. I've been using it for years as my one and only Firefox theme and it just feels great to have it back for this 8.0 browser version. Thanks again.
ReplyDeleteI've just noticed a few things that could be improved:
ReplyDeletea) When a new tab is loading its title gets too close to the left, touching the animated grey ball and the circling arrows, and then goes back a few pixels to the right.
b) I'd say the text in the main menu bar (File, Edit, etc) is too bright, and it feels the way it would look only if selected/clicked on. (In fact, now when selected/clicked they don't change at all).
Thanks.
Hi there- I agree that the menu bar looks grayed out. At least on my monitor, with XP and Zune theme colors. It looks worse when hovering the cursor over them, where the pale gray is almost invisible against the blue.
ReplyDeleteMy comment, however, is that here, at least, the active Bookmarks icon is way too bright; its outline is washed out. The History icon does it as well, but I don't have it active all the time. The New Window icon does it, too, but there it doesn't matter.
Are we being too picky?
Thanks for all your work (I hope you're enjoying it.)
Thanks a million for finally giving us a "modern" theme to use with more recent versions of Firefox!
ReplyDeleteLike others, I have a "grayed out" menu bar, for some reason (Firefox 9.01) - I don't mean to be picky either :)
Could we please get an update for Past Modern theme, for Firefox version 12.0.
ReplyDeletePast Modern Revised is my favorite theme, and I would really love to be able to use with the latest Firefox.