They are pretty much digging their / firefoxes grave. Instead of supporting add-ons, themes and their developers go against them.
Yeah we'll see how that works out for them.
UX branch discussion
They are pretty much digging their / firefoxes grave. Instead of supporting add-ons, themes and their developers go against them.
Yeah we'll see how that works out for them. 
Today's a holiday in Germany, and I'm bored, so I decided to try the UX build.
 By the way, what you see in the image is a new, about-to-be-released version of a third-party theme: the inimitable "Red Cats Green Flavor". Somehow, it still works.  Although every day is Judgment Day, I nonetheless feel like a room without a roof.
UI will always be important due to the fact that as public perception of modern design changes, it's important to keep pace with that. As for customisation, you have to remember the number of users that do customise is truly tiny, I suspect that power users will feel marginalised, but as the same time, will be able to (albeit with extra effort) retain the same level of customisation that they're used to.
Source?
You already know why you're having issues. Take a look at "safe mode". (bTw, i am having hard times to decide if that post is a joke or not. He is an old member and he should be aware that what a nightly and nightly based builds(ux etc.) is made for.) -.-
Germans don't joke so I'm going to guess that he's just complaining that his theme is broken in UX builds. 
Look it up yourself, you lazy devil, it's been all over the Net for ages, including Google Group discussions and even on his own MozillaZine page here. It's ridiculous that we have you pontificating here in the guise of a Builds geek and yet don't even know something as basic about Firefox as this. Metal Lion latest SeaMonkey & Thunderbird Themes - Sea Monkey and Silver Sea Monkey
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil, is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke (attrib.)
I've only had a quick look at UX and, theme-wise, the tabs are not a problem. That one is easily solved. What will be a problem is this new (non) Customisation side. So much so that if it is not solved then I guarantee that just about all third party themers will stop. No themer in their right mind is going to bother theming something where they cannot even move the toolbar buttons around to suit their own personal taste, let alone those of their users. To understand why, you need to look at why people make themes in the first place. They are made by people for themselves who don't like the look of the default theme. That's it, it is all primarily about appearance and that's how they start and later, if the look works, those themes are made available to the public or elsewhere. So bearing in mind that themers control every UI pixel seen in a theme, you can imagine how delighted they'd be to find that they couldn't even move the searchbar or Forward/Back around, let alone all the rest! As I said, themes are primarily about appearance, but where appropriate extra functionality/clarity can be added, i.e. wider sidebar by default, search history dropdowns years before the devs added it. There is also even a certain amount of 'retro fitting' when needed. For example, adding back the RSS feed icon into the urlbar or adding back the Forward/Back dropmarker, etc. However, all of that last lot are not really in the themers brief, they are bonus extras. In a nutshell, the job of a themer is to make stuff look pretty, not to continually retrofit the look and features of the default theme or even of their own stuff. That 'Customisation' stuff may indeed prove 'a bridge too far' for most theme developers. Metal Lion latest SeaMonkey & Thunderbird Themes - Sea Monkey and Silver Sea Monkey
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil, is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke (attrib.)
Yes, because I bought the allegation to the discussion. The onus is clearly on clearly on malliz here. Builds geek? Heh! I just like the burning edge and Firefox enough that I've bothered to enough to contextually educate myself. Ironic since I'm asking for information to educate myself further on the matter of Asa and themes and you're attempting to turn it into a homework project.
I guess I expressed what I wanted to say badly. It wasn't a joke. After reading only the last few entries in the UX build thread, and not having anything to do, I simply decided to have a look at it - no more, no less. (1) Having read Briscoe's comment, "There are hardly any themes left that are compatible with the latest Firefox release", I was actually surprised to see that the theme I mentioned generally worked, but was wondering about those two issues. I didn't feel the theme was "broken", and I didn't mean to complain at all. (2) Although I certainly know what the Nightlies are made for, I really don't know much about the UX build. As I mentioned, I decided to try it because I was bored. (3) I first tried the UX build with a brand-new profile, clicked around a bit, and then decided to try my old profile just to see what would happen. When I saw the result, I wondered whether there was any way to fix those two issues. This is why I wrote the post. If or when I get a reply that enables me to fix them, I'll fool around with the UX build a bit more. If I don't hear anything, I'll stick with the "regular" Nightlies. I have no problem waiting till changes in the interface make the regular Nightly. As long as I can use my theme, I'll stick with Fx. I've been here since the Netscape days. If they ever really make it impossible to use third-party themes, I don't know what I'll do. (4) Contrary to what omeringen wrote, I really have no idea why I had those two issues, and I have to confess that I'm not sure what would happen in "safe mode". (5) I'll let someone else address the comment that "Germans don't joke". All I can say is that I've lived here for about twenty years and can't corroborate it. Last edited by joeg on March 29th, 2013, 4:09 pm, edited 2 times in total.
Although every day is Judgment Day, I nonetheless feel like a room without a roof.
onus, my backside....and you really think this silly little forum is the Oxford Debating Society? Get yourself on Google search and be 'bothered to enough to contextually educate' yourself. Metal Lion latest SeaMonkey & Thunderbird Themes - Sea Monkey and Silver Sea Monkey
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil, is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke (attrib.)
Frank,
How possible do you think it would be for someone to create a compatibility extension that gets all the buttons back freely place-able again, which themes could be based on? could themes bundle such an extension? (I don't know if themes can act like extensions). Maybe if every theme in existence bundled (required) an extension that returned the functionality it would be enough of a slap in the face to convince Mozilla to "finish" their implementation? Especially if the extension could work on its own, with the default theme, fixing the issue without any visual changes (until you customize of course). If that is possible, how hard do you think it would be? My experience here is close to 0, but it seems like extensions would be powerful enough to correct this, as long as 1) someone bothers to "fix" things. 2) everyone else are willing to accept working on top of the "fix". (I ask you frank because you obviously have some experience here, feel free to not bother if the answer is complex/unknown atm)
Silly little forum? It's a forum which I've enjoyed being a part of. It's taught me a lot about a piece of software that I love and enjoy and inspired me to try and make it better. In that regard, I'd hope that people throwing around accusations, felt enough of a sense of accountability to take responsibility and post a source. I personally checked Asa's blog once you pointed me there and was unable to find the statement pertaining to themes. I'm not a themes user to be honest, most of the ones I've enjoyed in the past have bogged down the browser. As such I don't generally retain knowledge or take much notice of news pertaining to them. I was in fact surprised to read your post above where you state that toolbars won't be able to be customised. I'm not only surprised but am actually interested to know what this means? To the best of my knowledge, users can't modify toolbars, only the contents of, are you saying that as per the evolution into the Australis era of Firefox, things like moving buttons freely will disappear from Firefox? I remember reading something that said despite the add-on space being moved to the navigation bar, the Add-on bar would remain accessible; is this incorrect? Will users truly be unable to move Add-on buttons and even the AwesomeBar to the Add-on bar? Has a firm decision on this actually been made?
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Now you can crawl back under your rock What sort of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.
"Terry Pratchett"
I don't understand this observation. When I compare the numbers of users on these two pages, if you disregard the Yahoo! persona, they seem to be on a relatively similar order of magnitude. http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/gallery/All/Popular https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... te-themes/ Although every day is Judgment Day, I nonetheless feel like a room without a roof.
Well at the time I think he was talking about persona's but since he's been in charge they have been neglected as well so your guess is as good as anyone's as to what his game plan is at the moment.
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