Flock Theme

Eyes-Only · Post by **Eyes-Only** » October 31st, 2005, 2:25 pm

I guess I'll be the "lone dissenter" and say that for myself I prefer a Firefox-styled "Flock" theme. But I'm not the majority in this case---and I hold to the point that it's important to give to the majority what they want.

Hmm... did that make any sense at all? LOL! Maybe I should drink some more café and wake up!

I do know that in the past when I was a themer for K-Meleon, when I ported themes from Mozilla or Firefox to that I myself had to realise the limitations of that browser, and so I gave those styled themes to K-Meleon---but they were wholly a K-Meleon theme, seem? On the otherhand there are miles of difference between K-Meleon and Mozilla/Firefox, whereas Flock and Firefox stem from each other. I wouldn't see this icon so much as a "non-working icon" as much as I would see it as part of an "artistic design of the theme". See what I mean ShareBird? Hmm... Like putting someone's avatar up on a toolbar? Think of it as placing the "Flock avatar up there" (and a sharp-looking avatar at that!

). I think that's how many---though not all---will maybe see it where it's built into the edge of the URLbar like that, "endcap image".

Oh yes! Come to think of it---you could make a "subskin" directory in "global" and have a "rounded-urlbar.css" which people could go and trigger as an userChrome.css option if they'd prefer that instead perhaps?

Just a few thoughts. Thanks for letting me allow my €.02½ to roam free.

Amicalement,

Eyes-Only
"L'Peau-Rouge"

ShareBird · Post by **ShareBird** » October 31st, 2005, 7:29 pm

@Eyes-Only,
You're not alone Mon Aminche!!! I also prefer a Firefox styled Flock theme. I like the rounded urlbar and its dropmarker. But I have to agree it's so cute this Flock's urlbar!!! I'm really not sure what I have to use, I hope the people here will help me :-)

What I don't like is the fact this toolbarbutton will appears as "broken", the more Flock becomes more popular... Ideally I think on an extension that brings some functionality to this button. I'm thinking about to make it, maybe someone else could help me... Otherwise, if we think further in this direction the conclusion will be what I said before... Why the efforts with theme and extensions if the browser I want already exists?? OK... Things to be considered.

@all
I promised the change log and an update. Thinking about this urlbar question delayed it a little bit. But here we go...

Changes on Flock Alpha v0.1.0.1 -> v0.1.1.0

fixed several issues with toolbarbuttons
- Back and Forward button had no "onclick" status
- Reload and stop button had reactions on mouse despite their disabled status
implemented rounded urlbar and searchbar
fixed several issues with closebutton
- on findbar
- on tabs (TabMix Plus)
- on tabbar
fixed issue double bookmarks icons on customizing personal bookmarks toolbar
removed outlines for browser tabs
added tab drag indicators (TabMix Plus)
fixed a couple css errors
added urlbar security colors
gray color for selected text on urlbar
changed code and images from tabs
- the tabs look as usual, but the approach on skinning them is totally different. So is now fully compatible with TabMix Plus.
added the possibility to have the original appearance from Flock browser
- You have to add a line in your userChrome.css:
  Code: Select all
```
@import url("chrome://browser/skin/flock/urlbar/star-urlbar.css");
```
  This code must be placed before the line:
  @namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul");

You can grab the file here: Flock 0.2 Alpha - v0.1.1.0

I hope you like it and feel free to report any bugs on it.

Cheers

blinkybill · Post by **blinkybill** » October 31st, 2005, 10:37 pm

Hi Sharebird,

I think you have done an excellent job on your
lastet version of Flock Theme.
Now it looks exactly like Flock
with the url button and the rectangular
url bar.
Many thanks again for doing a great job.

cheers
blinky

fang5566 · Post by **fang5566** » October 31st, 2005, 11:56 pm

asteko wrote:
Recall wrote:If you can teach me how to learn turkish maybe I can actually access the file.....

You can get the same file from http://asteko.linux-sevenler.org/mozilla/flock-0.1.jar

i have downloaded and installed it.but after installing it didn't appear in the theme manager.

Ðårkeñ® · Post by **Ðårkeñ®** » November 1st, 2005, 3:01 am

ShareBird wrote:added the possibility to have the original appearance from Flock browser[list][*]You have to add a line in your userChrome.css:
Code: Select all
@import url("chrome://browser/skin/flock/urlbar/star-urlbar.css");
This code must be placed before the line:
@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul");

You can grab the file here: Flock 0.2 Alpha - v0.1.1.0

I hope you like it and feel free to report any bugs on it.

Cheers

thanx for this nice update!

little bug >>

Generated: Tue Nov 01 2005 05:00:18 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051031 Firefox/1.5
Build ID: 2005103103

Enabled Extensions: [20]
- Adblock Filterset.G Updater 0.2.6 - Synchronizes Adblock with Filterset.G
- Adblock Plus 0.5.10 - Filters ads from web-pages. Now with whitelisting and synchronization.
- Add Bookmark Here 0.5.5 - A convenient way to add bookmarks.
- ColorZilla 0.8.3.1 - Advanced Eyedropper, ColorPicker, Page Zoomer and other colorful goodies.
- CustomizeGoogle 0.34 - Enhance Google search results and remove ads and spam.
- CuteMenus 2 0.6.2 - Iconifies your menus and popups with XP skin.
- DOM Inspector 1.8 - Inspect the DOM of HTML, XUL, and XML pages, including the browser chrome.
- Download Embedded 0.1 - Downloads all embedded objects on a webpage.
- Download Manager Tweak 0.7 - A modification of the Firefox download manager that changes its appearance and allows it to be opened in a separate window, a new tab, or the sidebar.
- Fasterfox 0.7.9 - Performance and network tweaks for Firefox.
- FLST 0.8.5 - Focus Last Selected Tab
- Greasemonkey 0.6.3 - A User Script Manager for Firefox
- MR Tech Local Install 4.0.20051028 - Local Install power tools for all users.
- Paste and Go 0.4.3 - Lets you paste an URL from the clipboard and directly load it.
- Platypus 0.51 - Dynamically create GreaseMonkey scripts.
- SmoothWheel 0.44.7.20050605 - Scrolls the document smoothly when scrolling the mouse wheel
- Tabbrowser Preferences 1.2.9.93 - Enhances control over some aspects of tabbed browsing.
- Translation Panel 1.4.13.0 - An input text is translated into a foreign language.
- ViewSourceWith 0.0.7.5 - View page source with external application
- Web Developer 0.9.4 - Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.

thanx in advance,
Darken

093236 · Post by **093236** » November 1st, 2005, 7:54 am

That's so good ^^

Lost User 24926 · Post by **Lost User 24926** » November 1st, 2005, 8:12 am

Anyone have a copy of this? The download link seems to be hosed today.

ShareBird · Post by **ShareBird** » November 1st, 2005, 8:21 am

Thank you guys for testing it and for the feedbacks! As I can see most of you prefer the "star-urlbar" :-)

. I will considere it.

As I said before, I'm asking for permissions to release the theme. I see the proppose from this thread as test and collect ideas how the port to Firefox could be. I've removed the file temporarily until I have the decisions from Flock devs. I hope I can release it soon...

Thanks

@darken,
Maybe you have something on your userChrome.css that causes this issue??

ShareBird · Post by **ShareBird** » November 1st, 2005, 12:08 pm

Hi,

The file is available again:

Flock 0.2 Alpha - v0.1.1.0

Cheers

Ðårkeñ® · Post by **Ðårkeñ®** » November 1st, 2005, 2:29 pm

ShareBird wrote:@darken,
Maybe you have something on your userChrome.css that causes this issue??

euh... only images replacement for Adblock Plus icons >>

Code: Select all

/*
 * Edit this file and copy it as userChrome.css into your
 * profile-directory/chrome/
 */

/*
 * This file can be used to customize the look of Mozilla's user interface
 * You should consider using !important on rules which you want to
 * override default settings.
 */

/*
 * Do not remove the @namespace line -- it's required for correct functioning
 */
@import url("chrome://browser/skin/flock/urlbar/star-urlbar.css");
@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul"); /* set default namespace to XUL */


/*
 * Some possible accessibility enhancements:
 */
/*
 * Make all the default font sizes 20 pt:
 *
 * * {
 *   font-size: 20pt !important
 * }
 */
/*
 * Make menu items in particular 15 pt instead of the default size:
 *
 * menupopup > * {
 *   font-size: 15pt !important
 * }
 */
/*
 * Give the Location (URL) Bar a fixed-width font
 *
 * #urlbar {
 *    font-family: monospace !important;
 * }
 */

/*
 * Eliminate the throbber and its annoying movement:
 *
 * #throbber-box {
 *   display: none !important;
 * }
 */

/*
 * For more examples see http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html
 */
 
statusbarpanel[id="adblock-icon"][quickblock="partial"] > [id="adblock-status-image"] { 
   border-style: none none none none !important; 
}
statusbarpanel[id="adblock-icon"][status="enabled"] { 
   list-style-image: url("adblock1.png") !important; 
}
statusbarpanel[id="adblock-icon"][status="enabled"]:hover {
   list-style-image: url("adblock2.png") !important; 
}
statusbarpanel[id="adblock-icon"][status="notlistening"] { 
   list-style-image: url("adblock3.png") !important; 
}
statusbarpanel[id="adblock-icon"][status="notlistening"]:hover {
   list-style-image: url("adblock3.png") !important; 
}
statusbarpanel[id="adblock-icon"][status="unloaded"] { 
   list-style-image: url("adblock0.png") !important; 
}

thanx in advance my friend

******** · Post by ******** » November 1st, 2005, 3:59 pm

Flock 0.2 Alpha v0.1.1.0 looks beautiful!

It has become one of 4 themes that I switch between:

- Aquatint 1.5.1
- Flock 0.2 Alpha 0.5.6.6
- Silvermel-SE
- BlackJapan 0.9

Great work

In my opinion, Flock would have been so much better had it been released as a set of add-ons with a couple extensions and a theme to go with them.

btw, I LOVE the tab drag indicators

blinkybill · Post by **blinkybill** » November 1st, 2005, 6:49 pm

Hi Sharebird,

Yeah mate you have done a great job once again.
You say your waiting for an okay on Flock theme.
Will your next version contain more features
as the original Flock?.
Oh here is a pic of my firefox with your theme
and also the IE Tab extension themed with
Flock icon.

cheers
blinky

******** · Post by ******** » November 1st, 2005, 6:51 pm

no offense, blinkybill, but if you love the flock theme so much, you could just use Flock.

what a novel idea!

blinkybill · Post by **blinkybill** » November 1st, 2005, 7:03 pm

Yeah desertfox,

Its not so much that i like the Flock Browser
as I like the look of it as I have always found
the default firefox theme kind of ugly.

cheers
blinky

******** · Post by ******** » November 1st, 2005, 7:06 pm

so pretty much the idea behind the ported Flock theme is to make a Firefox theme that is based on the Flock theme.

not to make an exact clone.

cheers

desertfox

sweet avatar and username btw