I think that you should add a feature where you can put in the color hex values for the colors you want on various parts of the theme instead of having to put up with color themes that have been picked by people who are programmers and not art people obviously. Thanks.

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Re: Theme selection.
by chromatic (Archbishop) on Feb 18, 2001 at 11:46 UTC
    That is a good idea, and newer versions of Everything make this much easier to accomplish. Unfortunately, it's at least a few weeks away.

    Now someone has to convince vroom's college to give him work/study credits for migrating to Everything 1.0 here shortly. :)

Re: Theme selection.
by tadman (Prior) on Feb 18, 2001 at 11:06 UTC
    I'd have to agree that most of the "themes" seem to have been chosen by color blind monkeys on acid. Apart from the default theme, they are, and I'm trying to be polite here, quite harsh on the eyes. They are not unlike some of the more memorable Windows 3.1 color 'themes', such as "Hot Dog Stand", which I reckon were approved by a focus group composed entirely of Las Vegas hotel-room decorators, fast-food restaurant designers, and blind people.

    My contribution of constructive criticism would be that Everything2 does have a variety of useful, and I must emphasise, viewable themes, which I'm sure PerlMonks could convert, should there be such a demand.
    BTW, everyone seems to -- our poor "Initiate" bladx in a "shoot before you look" kind of way. Nasty, isn't it? :-)
Re: Theme selection.
by bladx (Chaplain) on Feb 20, 2001 at 10:22 UTC
    Sorry, I seem to not have made my point clearer earlier. My idea is: in the user prefs area, there should be more input boxes in the form where you can edit the individual colors on the users' screen. Such as the bgcolor of the individual node's etc, the bgcolor of the entire site, the #hex values of ALL of the text onscreen, etc. That way it would give users more COLOR FREEDOM here in the monastary. I dunno...it's just an idea.

      Ah. With Net::Daemon, HTML::Parser and LWP, you too can make your own web proxy that can go in and themeicize perlmonks however you see fit :)

      But yes, I agree, more options are always nice.