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So what's this about a "space theme"? The only thing that looks different to me is the input box (which looks better than it used to, so I hope that much is backported to the regular theme)
Friday, 07-Dec-12 13:11:20 UTC from web-
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@pony Weird, mine still looks completely normal except for the input box.
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@toksyuryel I smile every time I read the site notice. xD
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@toksyuryel Nah, the input box doesn't really work for light themes. Plus widget made core completely transparent, which imo doesn't really look nice, even on the public timeline :<
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@redenchilada It works very well actually! http://ur1.ca/bwc5w
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@toksyuryel Not at all, it stands out way too much from the rest of the page.
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@redenchilada As it should.
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@toksyuryel It looks garish and completely clashes with a light design. The regular textbox admittedly has this problem on dark designs, but in that case it's still acceptable because people will expect textboxes to be white by default. I dunno, maybe it could be dynamic based on the content color or something.
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@redenchilada Well I like it. It makes it easier to see what I am typing and helps me remember it's there.
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@toksyuryel I just think text boxes need a very good reason not to be white. A blank white box tells the user they can type here, while a blank box of any other color looks like decoration. It's possible to symbolize it in some other way, yeah, but in general it's better to be as intuitive as possible.
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@redenchilada You'd have to be pretty thick to think this one was just decoration, given its placement and what it is surrounded by.
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@toksyuryel Maybe, but leaving textboxes white in general is a good design practice. Very few designs have textboxes of any other color even on dark userpages.
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@redenchilada This sounds suspiciously similar to "making all your links blue and underlined is a good design practice". If it's just based on tradition that isn't really a compelling reason for me. It's a big empty box with a bunch of formatting controls and a "send" button adjacent to it, what more do you need? Is someone really going to mistake that for a decoration? And if they do, are we certain we even want them attempting to interact with the community?
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@toksyuryel That's a different concept. Links can stand out just by virtue of being any different color; if you see an odd-colored bit of text, you can assume it's a link.
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@redenchilada And if you see a big empty box with a "send" button next to it, you can assume it's an input box.
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@toksyuryel I'd rather it be light-colored so it makes sense being a text box, though.
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@redenchilada Now you're just talking in circles.
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@toksyuryel You've been repeating the same argument over and over.
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@redenchilada @toksyuryel You're both being whining over something that doesn't matter and you could fix yourself if it was really that much of an issue.
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@colfax Who's whining about anything, we're just having a discussion about design principles.
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@colfax Neither of us were whining.
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@toksyuryel Why are you running Mintrefresh?
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@redenchilada @colfax I demand whining!
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@pony THE TOP NAVBAR HAS TOO MANY ITEMS THE BACKGROUND DOESN'T TILE SEAMLESSLY WHY IS RAINBOW DASH JUST FLYING IN SPACE THIS THEME MAKES NO SENSE WAA WAA WAAAAAAAAAAAA
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@redenchilada you reminded me of that
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@redenchilada I'm more curious to know what's contracting the light that makes the rainbow if she's in space where water droplets wouldn't theoretically... oh wait I just thought of something nsfwoona.. anyway I guess rainbow physics work very differently in Equestria
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@pony Keep in mind the CMC drained the color out of a rainbow once.e
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@fortecadenza precisely, plus the liquid rainbow at the weather factory
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@pony Which is spicy.
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@fortecadenza lol yeah
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