phkhgh wrote:Hi,
I appreciated the code to make the reload & Stop buttons larger & move them to L-end of address box in Australis - shown here:
viewtopic.php?p=13508369#p13508369I even made the Reload button slightly larger than specified in Frank's code.
Yeah, I use code to resize all sorts of stuff these days, but you have to be careful if making images larger as they go fuzzy.
Small problem for me is, for many yrs the reload has always been outside the address box - next to Nav buttons (for me). So it being dull gray kind of obscures it.
If I could change the color of reload button in its UNhovered state, it'd make it easier to spot.
That may be easier said than done.
These days, it's easier done than said and I do it all the time -
The following are on one of my SeaMonkey themes and show a hovered Reload and active Back on images that are all silver grey, but it would be just as easy to colour them to any colour for normal state -
viewtopic.php?f=18&t=2845889Back in January, I did a basic 'proof of concept' theme to sort out a number of problems surrounding the making of third party themes. One of the improvements was to use
svg code filters to colour things or make them grey, etc - that theme, Metal Lion Australis, is completely open source and I would encourage people to pull it apart to learn about the svg filter side -
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... lis-theme/Things have progressed a lot since then and I now use different filters to select
any colour I want, instead of the limited range (about 12 colours) that I had available in that MLA theme. I also now use svg filters to do the hover effects (where the icons glow, like a lightbulb being turned on) and the darker active states.
On a personal note, in some ways it's a pity that the Complete Theme side has collapsed (and the public interest in them) as really all of the historic problems that arose since Firefox 4 have now been solved with that template theme.
It's now possible to make a Complete Theme in a few days, instead of weeks and weeks (some guys took months!) The maintenance of them, even with Rapid Release every 6 weeks, is reduced to a couple of hours instead of being never-ending. For example, these changes -
viewtopic.php?p=13707605#p13707605 really didn't take very long at all. In the old days, themers would have had to wade through this lot -
viewtopic.php?p=13709201#p13709201. As it is, I didn't even have to look at it.
Not really a problem for me, the only really enjoyable part of being a Complete Theme writer has ever only been the initial making of them and the maintenance of them has always been a chore. Certainly, having to constantly maintain/update stuff you hardly remember making using the old methods every 6 weeks is something I didn't fancy.
It's a great pity that so many of my fellow theme writers have now quit.
.......still, returning to the subject in hand. If you don't want to colour other buttons and only want to colour the Reload button in the normal (unhovered) state, then use the hover coding for it, like this -
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#urlbar-reload-button {
-moz-image-region: rect(14px, 14px, 28px, 0) !important;}
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