Discuss Want the old DevH color scheme back? Here's how! in the Suggestions & Feedback forum on Dev Hardware. Want the old DevH color scheme back? Here's how! Use this forum for either suggesting ideas or submitting feedback about our forums. Suggestions, constructive criticism, and other feedback appreciated.
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Originally Posted by Dngrsone
No sir, I don't like it.
Don't like it one bit.
If I haven't mentioned before (doubtful, that), I do not like the "color" white. Period. I am dark-adapted and white hurts my eyes.
Now, I fully understand that I have absolutely zero influence upon the people who own and operate these forums, nor do I expect them to change things just to satisfy me; but I am stating right now for the record that I will not be visiting these forums with the current color scheme very often at all.
So, my friends, if anyone has a suggestion for making the forums look more acceptable to mine eyes, please edify me!
You could try the FF web developer extension, and edit the CSS ... it will only affect the way you see it, but that's one option...
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'Tis alright... I guess. But I don't like the fact that I've got to do this. Oh well...
For those who dare: old_devh.css. I've added the "!important" suffixes to explicitly override the default cascade styles.
As far as I know (link) overriding CSS2 author styles for the sake of accessibility features is acceptable and deontological. If not, please do correct me.
PS: But this certainly does not mean that I don't assume responsibility for my previously suggested idea - here.
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Another contribution to all of my Firefoxian fellow friends.
Permanent Workaround Fix
Step 1: Find your Firefox profile. Here's how to do it.
Example path: ... \Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\o6u310yb.default\chr ome
Step 2: In your "chrome" subdirectory you're going to find 2 files, one is "userChrome-example.css", and the another one is "userContent-example.css" - don't bother with these. It's just for verification.
Step 3: Download this pre-generated CSS file a la userContent-style. Keep in mind that it's not the same I've linked on the previous page (same but with very few modifications). Copy there in your "chrome" subfolder.
Step 4: Restart Firefox. The layout of DevHardware should be the traditional legacy one. The beauty of this workaround is that the changes are permanent (unless you delete or rename that "userContent.css" file we've just copied/downloaded there. And most importantly, this workaround is "site-specific" CSS overriding. It won't mess with other sites, it's explicitly limited to paths starting with www.devhardware.com. But it does not affect the main Dev Hardware site - just the forums.
Temporary Workaround Fix
Simply create a new bookmark with the following location:
PS: I've actually downloaded and installed that GreaseMonkey extension. I've tried that GM_addStyle("css goes here") API function but haven't had much of luck. It works fine with few lines long cascading style layouts but in our case that doesn't apply. I'm sure you've noticed that DevH Forums cascading styles are approximatelly 400 lines long with lots of "extra" quotation marks and ( ) brackets. Therefore, it's quite a pain in the ass to "format" a GreaseMonkey specific User Script agaisnt all of the aforementioned.
Reason for that is that as you can see from its syntax, your particualr user style CSS must be placed within brackets and delimited by quotation marks. I simply don't have the time to research the way GreaseMonkey handles string operations, create and initialize N strings, then merge them together, and hope for the best that it is able to interpret the results.
Web Developer extension is also seemingly useful. It supports "user stylesheets" but with one drawback, it doesn't remember after restarting Firefox. You need to tick that box and select your style, again, again, and again. That doesn't appeal to me.
I hope you are all satisfied. Now I am already out and running... Cheers!
PS: And yes, I've installed Firefox just for you guys. And no, neither of you owe me anything and for love of God, no need to rep me.
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Originally Posted by madhyena
Another contribution to all of my Firefoxian fellow friends.
Permanent Workaround Fix
Step 1: Find your Firefox profile. Here's how to do it.
Example path: ... \Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\o6u310yb.default\chr ome
Step 2: In your "chrome" subdirectory you're going to find 2 files, one is "userChrome-example.css", and the another one is "userContent-example.css" - don't bother with these. It's just for verification.
Step 3: Download this pre-generated CSS file a la userContent-style. Keep in mind that it's not the same I've linked on the previous page (same but with very few modifications). Copy there in your "chrome" subfolder.
Step 4: Restart Firefox. The layout of DevHardware should be the traditional legacy one. The beauty of this workaround is that the changes are permanent (unless you delete or rename that "userContent.css" file we've just copied/downloaded there. And most importantly, this workaround is "site-specific" CSS overriding. It won't mess with other sites, it's explicitly limited to paths starting with www.devhardware.com. But it does not affect the main Dev Hardware site - just the forums.
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Enable BSOD: Control Panel/Systems, Advanced Tab, hit the Settings button under Startup and Recovery, and under the System Failure area, uncheck the Automatically Restart checkbox.
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Thanx Hyena. Now I can distinquish between DevH and DevA again (that was my biggest peeve: I had to look at the title to know what site I was even looking at). If they want them all the same, they should first merge all the user account databases...
Last edited by Itsacon : March 9th, 2008 at 05:00 AM.
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