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i can do dispy. i like it but i have some issues with it. perfect opportunity for me to hack at it 
Friendica themes redux
TL;DR - we will be deprecating some Friendica themes and providing an admin interface to select which available themes will be visible to site members.
I probably need some help on this as I've got a lot of projects. But I think it's time to phase out the loozah themes, and the universally hated "easterbunny". There are several people currently using the loozah themes so we won't remove them. We will just consider them deprecated, and when a new theme management interface is implemented, they will become unsupported.
Theme Management
In order to pull this off with the least amount of disruption and angst, here's the plan....
The theme management (admin) interface should closely mimic the plugin administration page, but in this case will choose which themes are available for members to select. If they aren't ticked "green", they won't be offered as a choice (but existing members using those themes may still continue to use them). However, if somebody changes from one of these themes to something else, they won't be offered a choice to switch back.
I'm thinking each theme entry on this page should display the contents of a README.md or README.bb and provide a screenshot.
We should also provide a dynamically updated screenshot on the end-user theme selection so somebody can see at a glance if they want to try the theme or not - and without committing to it.
Once this interface is completed, we will generate a config list of supported themes as an automatic update and supply the same in the default htconfig for new installations - and this will remove the deprecated themes from the list of available choices for end-users, but allow the files to remain.
Also at this time, the deprecated themes will become unsupported and will require volunteer support to update with any future code changes.
At the present time, I'll maintain the zeros and testbubble. Fabio and/or Tobias will likely keep Quattro current, and Fabio and myself will manage templates for these three families. Derivatives of all of these should be fine. Others such as vier and dispy will need to be maintained by others.
(It isn't clear but perhaps vier might work better as a derivative theme, depending on the number of changes anticipated from its quattro roots. This will make it easier to support. Unless somebody is willing to commit to maintaining Dispy it will likely become unsupported also.)
Once all this is in place, new themes (except for low-maintenance derivatives) will most likely require a maintainer. We will probably also need a theme-dev forum to communicate core changes which might affect themes, so that maintainers aren't caught off guard.
And of course all of this may change completely based on community feedback. Let it begin.
I probably need some help on this as I've got a lot of projects. But I think it's time to phase out the loozah themes, and the universally hated "easterbunny". There are several people currently using the loozah themes so we won't remove them. We will just consider them deprecated, and when a new theme management interface is implemented, they will become unsupported.
Theme Management
In order to pull this off with the least amount of disruption and angst, here's the plan....
The theme management (admin) interface should closely mimic the plugin administration page, but in this case will choose which themes are available for members to select. If they aren't ticked "green", they won't be offered as a choice (but existing members using those themes may still continue to use them). However, if somebody changes from one of these themes to something else, they won't be offered a choice to switch back.
I'm thinking each theme entry on this page should display the contents of a README.md or README.bb and provide a screenshot.
We should also provide a dynamically updated screenshot on the end-user theme selection so somebody can see at a glance if they want to try the theme or not - and without committing to it.
Once this interface is completed, we will generate a config list of supported themes as an automatic update and supply the same in the default htconfig for new installations - and this will remove the deprecated themes from the list of available choices for end-users, but allow the files to remain.
Also at this time, the deprecated themes will become unsupported and will require volunteer support to update with any future code changes.
At the present time, I'll maintain the zeros and testbubble. Fabio and/or Tobias will likely keep Quattro current, and Fabio and myself will manage templates for these three families. Derivatives of all of these should be fine. Others such as vier and dispy will need to be maintained by others.
(It isn't clear but perhaps vier might work better as a derivative theme, depending on the number of changes anticipated from its quattro roots. This will make it easier to support. Unless somebody is willing to commit to maintaining Dispy it will likely become unsupported also.)
Once all this is in place, new themes (except for low-maintenance derivatives) will most likely require a maintainer. We will probably also need a theme-dev forum to communicate core changes which might affect themes, so that maintainers aren't caught off guard.
And of course all of this may change completely based on community feedback. Let it begin.
@Charles Roth - I edited the JPG directly, but I still have the original SVG in my archives someplace. I'll see if I can dig it up and update that as well.
In any event public domain.
In any event public domain.
@Tupambae.Net - Being connected with Diaspora in any way is turning into a liability. I believe it's time to distance ourselves.
We had it on a t-shirt using the old logo and spelled with a 'k' (that and several other t-shirt and sweatshirt designs). In a year we sold exactly one shirt and I finally decided it wasn't very productive and took down the service.
J. David Eisenberg has it I think.
We had it on a t-shirt using the old logo and spelled with a 'k' (that and several other t-shirt and sweatshirt designs). In a year we sold exactly one shirt and I finally decided it wasn't very productive and took down the service.
J. David Eisenberg has it I think.
Is this available as an SVG? what's the license? I'd like to use it as the anchor for a blog post on my Wikilog about ~friendica 
ah @Mike you have got "friendica stuff"
http://macgirvin.com/photos/mike/album/467269656e64696361205374756666
http://macgirvin.com/photos/mike/album/467269656e64696361205374756666
Thanks @Fabio Comuni because I have been meaning to write about this for some time. My solution has been to set browser bookmarks for my networks, groups etc to make working through my couple of hundred morning notifications easier. To be able to do this within friendica would be ace.
We like it.
And of course the "cool" part fit's in our kind of provocative comunication style.
We know, their is no quorum for that idea. But it would be an incredible statement from the friendica folks if you would ad diaspora in some way, something like "and the different diaspora pods and their forks".
And of course the "cool" part fit's in our kind of provocative comunication style.
We know, their is no quorum for that idea. But it would be an incredible statement from the friendica folks if you would ad diaspora in some way, something like "and the different diaspora pods and their forks".
I've tested some day ago the possbility to use "notify" table in mod/ping.php, instead querying multiple times item table with joins and so on...
It's cool, but we need a well designed "show all notification" page, with the option to mark one, more or all notifications as read. (something like github's one).
The only thing that keep me atm to going on on this is that I like to have all new posts in notification menu (on quattro theme), wich allows me to read all new items one by one (if I open network page, all new messages are marked as read...)
Oh, mike, I keep to see your treads as conversations by you with yourself...
It's cool, but we need a well designed "show all notification" page, with the option to mark one, more or all notifications as read. (something like github's one).
The only thing that keep me atm to going on on this is that I like to have all new posts in notification menu (on quattro theme), wich allows me to read all new items one by one (if I open network page, all new messages are marked as read...)
Oh, mike, I keep to see your treads as conversations by you with yourself...
@Tim Schlotfeldt Shallow folks will moan anyway, leave it in.
2 versions, one with, one without
I like the slogan »Find me on Friendica« But this about the cool thing means to the people who are stillon Facebook »Hey, you aren't cool anymore.« Maybe someone could feel hurt. Or?
Someone should make that into a T-shirt.
promo pic? does that mean we can use that anywhere to propagandize about^w^w promote friendica? 
thats perfect!!! 
I like that a lot!
[Upgraded promo pic.]
I'm finally remembering what I was failing to remember earlier. The so-called Low Orbit Ion Cannon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOIC
sounds great 
I'm excited 
