New Theme: NASA Night Launch

mcdavis · Post by **mcdavis** » June 25th, 2007, 4:16 pm

flub wrote:Just wanted to say thanks for a great theme

Glad you like it, flub. Feedback is always welcome.

flub · Post by **flub** » June 26th, 2007, 5:25 am

Thanks

I don't suppose you will ever consider doing a NASA version for Thunderbird?

mcdavis · Post by **mcdavis** » June 26th, 2007, 10:18 am

Yeah, probably someday, but for now I'm saving myself until I see how much work the port to Firefox 3 will involve.

FYI, I have run it with both Tb 1.5 and Tb 2.0 (with install.rdf tweaked so it'll install). The theme rules for generic "toolkit" objects like menus, buttons, add-ons manager and so on all work equally well for Tb and Fx. Of course, that still leaves the Tb icon set, which is the time-consuming part. I'll have to let my themes mojo recharge a bit before I take that on.

flub · Post by **flub** » June 26th, 2007, 11:15 am

No worries

Thanks for the reply.

skm-industries · Post by **skm-industries** » June 29th, 2007, 10:15 am

Hi, LOVE this theme, best dark theme i can find.

I have a question or two....

1. I want to disable all the pictures in the theme, but i'm a 'code tard' CSS confuses me.
2. I would like to have a slightly more compact version, far as i can see, it's the nav buttons that are making it large, now, i'm assuming if i simply re-size the source file, i could make that particular are a little thinner.. am i right?
3. I would like to have no icons next to items on the bookmarks toolbar.

e_deviant · Post by **e_deviant** » June 29th, 2007, 7:49 pm

anybody can help me please...

i could not change the subskins..

i even tried copying the example already but wont work..

main browser window is still plain white...

e~mail = e_deviant@hotmail.com

thank you in advance.

your kindness will be highly appreciated..

mcdavis · Post by **mcdavis** » June 29th, 2007, 8:53 pm

skm-industries wrote:Hi, LOVE this theme, best dark theme i can find.

Thanks skm. Is this you? http://skm-industries.deviantart.com/gallery/ If so I'm really digging some of your work.

1. I want to disable all the pictures in the theme, but i'm a 'code tard' CSS confuses me.

I'm not sure there's an easy way to do this.

Also, in a lot of cases the colors of everything else in the window are set to contrast against the background images, and if you took out the background some things would become invisible/hard to read.

2. I would like to have a slightly more compact version, far as i can see, it's the nav buttons that are making it large, now, i'm assuming if i simply re-size the source file, i could make that particular are a little thinner.. am i right?

You could just resize the source file, although the image quality would degrade a bit. Some of the icons were just scaled down to current size from larger source, but many had by-hand-editing after scaling to the current size so that borders would have just the right weight (and in particular be exactly one pixel wide). You'd lose a lot of that if you scaled it again. You could always try it and see.

Also, you'd have to write some userChrome.css rules to use your smaller icons. You wouldn't get what you want just by replacing the source file.

FYI the default Firefox theme has 23x23 icons and mine are 24x24 or 23x23.

It's true that the nav buttons are making it a little big, but part of that is because I put extra padding between the button icon and the button border. I like the rectangular (wider rather than square) shape which is why. You could write some userChrome.css rules to go with less padding.

I will eventually be making small icons, maybe that's what you really want?

3. I would like to have no icons next to items on the bookmarks toolbar.

Entirely possible, but I don't know how at the moment. Maybe someone else can help with that.

HTH.

skm-industries · Post by **skm-industries** » June 30th, 2007, 1:53 am

Hey, thanks for the quick reply, and indeed yes, that is me, and thanks ^_^

I think, after that (very useful) explanation, I shall not tweak the theme, there's nothing wrong with it, it's just because I'm a fussy sod! hehe!

Again; Thanks! that has answered pretty much everything in, well, just the right way, informative, without confusing me

Cheers mate.

And i look forward to seeing more dark themes from you! A rare breed!

xPLAN303Ex · Post by **xPLAN303Ex** » June 30th, 2007, 5:42 am

Does this work in Mac OSX? I installed it and it is usable, but I can't edit the UserChrome.css file, I don't have one! Spotlight doesn't find any file with that name on my hard drive.

mcdavis · Post by **mcdavis** » July 1st, 2007, 10:02 am

If you want to use the original Firefox throbbers, add these lines to your userChrome.css

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#navigator-throbber {
  list-style-image: url("chrome://global/skin/throbber/Throbber-small.png") !important;
}

#navigator-throbber[busy="true"] {
  list-style-image: url("chrome://global/skin/throbber/Throbber-small.gif") !important;
}

toolbar[mode="text"] #navigator-throbber {
  list-style-image: url("chrome://global/skin/throbber/Throbber-small.png") !important;
}
toolbar[mode="text"] #navigator-throbber[busy="true"] {
  list-style-image: url("chrome://global/skin/throbber/Throbber-small.gif") !important;
}

DMCrimson · Post by **DMCrimson** » July 2nd, 2007, 7:06 am

xPLAN303Ex : you'r userChrome.css is located at ~/Library/Application Support/FireFox/Profiles/###insertprofilename###/chrome/ , most likely there's none yet created... I'd suggest you install MR Tech's Local Install, which adds an editor for certain chrome files to your firefox. If you want to do it by some other editor, simply save it to said location.

For further information, see KBase

stridoca · Post by **stridoca** » July 4th, 2007, 9:08 pm

I really LOVED this theme, but I don't like the rocket and NASA stuff

Could you make a code to take out all rocket images? Some other people will like it too, I think.. hope you do it! thanks!

Soul Stealer · Post by **Soul Stealer** » July 5th, 2007, 4:23 am

Would kind of defeat the whole purpose of the theme, don't ya think?

There are plenty of dark-colored themes out there if that's all ya want.

stridoca · Post by **stridoca** » July 5th, 2007, 10:35 am

yeah I think the same.. but it's not all the rocket stuff tough, if mcdavis could only do a code to remove this image(the background image) "chrome://global/skin/watermarks/about.blank.sts116-s-021.v010.jpg", I would be glad

wongo · Post by **wongo** » July 6th, 2007, 10:05 am

My laptop has only so much screen real estate for browsing, and the smaller the icons in the toolbar the better.

Plus I think the overall theme will look sleeker with smaller icons anyway.

On Mac OS X Firefox 2.0.0.4.

New Theme: NASA Night Launch

Small Icons Please