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Post by sine nomine » Wed Apr 06, 2005 8:12 pm

i've installed the final choices for themes. some of it was constrained by what was available and what would be compatible with this version of the board software.

i've uninstalled darksky because i got a lot of complaints about it.

the final list of available themes:

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Chrome_ex
Diddle
Quidditch
subBlack
subSilver
subza

I tried to balance dark and light, and have one colorful theme (people seemed to want one).

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Post by Proximity » Wed Apr 06, 2005 8:45 pm

Thank you, deb :D
I really like both chrome ex and subblack .. so I'm actually considering switching from subsilver ;)


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Post by fire.bird » Wed Apr 06, 2005 9:15 pm

[tangent]

you know, i don't even know what Quidditch looks like, but it really makes me smile that it's a theme title. (*Dobby voice* Harry Potter must come look at the new BUS themes! one is titled in his honor, sir! Hooray!)

thanks, deb. :)

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Post by kurdt_kobain » Wed Apr 06, 2005 10:42 pm

I'm using SubBlack.

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Post by Proximity » Wed Apr 06, 2005 10:52 pm

fire.bird wrote:[tangent]

you know, i don't even know what Quidditch looks like, but it really makes me smile that it's a theme title.
'tis very very very purple, of the dark variety. I think it's fun to check them all out ..
I'm using chrome ex now .. and I like it .. but I just realized that it does *not* give pop-ups for new PM's, even if you have the box checked :-?
(that's not fix-able, is it?)

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Post by Chimera » Wed Apr 06, 2005 11:01 pm

Me likes subblack. :D I'll use this until they invent a darker color. Thanks Deb!


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Post by Jomomma » Wed Apr 06, 2005 11:10 pm

I thnk I may be getting used to subblack(reluctantly)
I am still harboring resentment for the loss of my BlueGrey and being forced to use Darksky and then losing that btu I think I will be able to adjust :tongue:

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Post by Laura » Wed Apr 06, 2005 11:21 pm

I have only a vague inkling that Quidditch has something to do with Harry Potter (about whom I know virtually nothing)... but I'm using it cos it doesn't have those wretched animated popular post things that make my computer get noisily over-excited :roll:

It is indeed very purple.
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Post by Proximity » Wed Apr 06, 2005 11:30 pm

Laura wrote:I have only a vague inkling that Quidditch has something to do with Harry Potter
"Quiddich" is the name of a game played in the books, it has a few different balls, and positions to be played, etc. and takes place on flying broomsticks.
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I don't know why it has a board theme named after it .. or why that theme happens to be purple ..

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Post by Kasie » Thu Apr 07, 2005 2:42 am

Prox, when I was living in Japan, they were all wild on Harry Potter, and the merchandise sold there always had the same purple theme going (the packaging that is) as the Quidditch board does... I bought a few Harry Potter things over there :)

I haven't seen any packaging for Harry Potter products in Australia tho, so I'm not sure about other countries...
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Post by Chimera » Thu Apr 07, 2005 2:47 am

Purple is kind of a stereotypical "wizardy" color. Not that I read much fantasy or anything... :roll:

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Post by PurplePenguin » Thu Apr 07, 2005 3:48 am

Not that this is related, but I like your new avatar, Chimera! Maybe it's not that new but it's new to me...I haven't been around for awhile. :roll:
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Post by kurdt_kobain » Thu Apr 07, 2005 3:57 am

Proximity wrote:it has a few different balls, and positions to be played, etc. and takes place on flying broomsticks.
That sounds faintly...perverted. :lol:
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but it's a lot harder than it looks because even though
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Post by ChaseThisLight » Thu Apr 07, 2005 5:17 am

SubBlack is great...perhaps even better than bluegrey...
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Post by Stellaria » Thu Apr 07, 2005 5:33 am

I like subza, it's easy on my eyes. :)
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Post by pretty » Thu Apr 07, 2005 8:43 am

Thanks Deb :)

I'm in a whiney mood, so I'm gonna have a mini whine, if that's ok. There are two dark themes, Quidditch and SubBlack. In Quiddditch the columns on the index page are really off. The column with Mod names in takes about half the screen, and the column with the actual forum descriptions in gets all squished and hard to read. SubBlack has gold in, I can't stand gold. So I'm sticking with SubSilver. I'm not online long enough these days for headaches to be a huge issue, so it's ok. I'm just whining.

It's early. I have 1200 words to write before the end of the day on something I'm growing to have no interest in. So maybe I'm just feeling whiney. Apologies. Feel free to ignore me ;)
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Post by mallie » Thu Apr 07, 2005 8:54 am

I was always a SubSilver girl. I put on access for a while when the update was first done, but went back to SubSilver. I now have Diddle, which is set out the same way, but the colours are pretty :)

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Post by sug160489 » Thu Apr 07, 2005 9:13 am

yeah thanks deb im loving my new diddle board
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Post by Jomomma » Thu Apr 07, 2005 9:15 am

I think diddle is just a TAD too cutesy for me :-?

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Post by mallie » Thu Apr 07, 2005 9:25 am

jomomma wrote:I think diddle is just a TAD too cutesy for me :-?
But its COLOURFUL!

*Mallie is the type of person easily distracted and amused by colourful and shiny things*

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