Charamel "artfully" gone

mcdavis · Post by **mcdavis** » October 11th, 2006, 12:16 am

If you download the jar it's easy to edit the install.rdf to work with 2.0. Just change the Firefox maxversion to 3.0a1. Most everything works except the Themes/Extensions window.

bcool · Post by **bcool** » October 11th, 2006, 3:54 am

Thanks. Of course editing install.rdf for a few of my favorite extensions worked great. I was worried though that there might be too many glitches in theme compatibility. Thanks for the tip.

thepineapplehead · Post by **thepineapplehead** » October 25th, 2006, 4:32 am

For those having problems installing the theme from the site, right click the thunderbird link and select "save target as".

I have no idea what's going on with lucx and Charamel, but apparently everythign works except the Addons window, I'll see if I can find out why.

Old Greg S · Post by **Old Greg S** » October 25th, 2006, 6:36 pm

thepineapplehead wrote:I have no idea what's going on with lucx and Charamel, but apparently everythign works except the Addons window, I'll see if I can find out why.

Yea, well good luck with that

MechR · Post by **MechR** » October 28th, 2006, 2:01 pm

Toward the bottom of the page, it says "Charamel is on hiatus indefinetely."

Uh oh. Aww

DJ_Theme · Post by **DJ_Theme** » October 28th, 2006, 2:02 pm

Hey i am new could you help me

DJ_Theme · Post by **DJ_Theme** » October 28th, 2006, 2:03 pm

I don't know where to start.

ShareBird · Post by **ShareBird** » October 28th, 2006, 3:48 pm

DJ_Theme wrote:I don't know where to start.

Start reading the Forum Rules...

Kudo · Post by **Kudo** » October 29th, 2006, 3:11 pm

MechR wrote:Toward the bottom of the page, it says "Charamel is on hiatus indefinetely."

Uh oh. Aww

I am using it anyway with FF 2.0

chickengirl · Post by **chickengirl** » October 29th, 2006, 5:55 pm

MechR wrote:Toward the bottom of the page, it says "Charamel is on hiatus indefinetely."

Uh oh. Aww

why do geniuses always burn out??

Alfred Kayser · Post by **Alfred Kayser** » October 30th, 2006, 2:53 am

Because it is a lot of work (to be a genius ;-)

), but it is not always appreciated.
Especially the author of Charamel is a great genius.
The theme is not just beautiful, it also introduced a number of new ways of doing UI design.
(like instead of doing the 'tree' and 'boxes' as 'inset' boxes, to have them as a separate 'piece of paper' with its own shadow, so that it appear to be above the rest, instead of sunken into it.

Old Meow · Post by **Old Meow** » November 3rd, 2006, 5:12 pm

he might still be doing it sometime...i think for now it's a way to rid of the
"omgz when will you make a FF 2.0 version?" requests

and yea, it's by very far the best theme i've ever seen on Firefox

alternatively someone familiar with themeing could always make a port to 2.0
i think it would require a minimum of actual newly designed elements and mainly
require adjusting, copy/pasting

however i don't like that approach, as i'm sure, in the sense of the creator an
update should also contain changes to the design of the theme; plus you have to
be good at doing it or be the one himself to keep the overview of the concept
aswell as maintaining the subtlety

so chances to screw up are too high to have anyone else update it

Sariyan · Post by **Sariyan** » November 10th, 2006, 10:59 am

lucx, c'mon. please, don't leave us in the lurch

. we are so accustomed to your theme..

lucx · Post by **lucx** » November 11th, 2006, 2:33 pm

This theme hemorages time and money.
There is an abundance of Un in people's gratefulness.

SHODAN · Post by **SHODAN** » November 14th, 2006, 3:59 am

I am very sorry to hear that. I have really enjoyed Charamel, and I am grateful, though I have not expressed that gratitude.

If you make provision for accepting donations, and receive a significant sum, will you continue development?