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golinux

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## Re: Refracta wiki project

Wed Feb 20, 2013 5:52 pm

Moving on from the logo . . .
How about starting a thread asking for everybody's favorite Debian resources? Then we could do a separate page (like the documentation page) to list the best of them. We could do the same for the download page and include links for installer, snapshot, yad etc. in addition to sourceforge, ibiblio and github. I'm liking the groupings on the new header page but then, I'm a minimalist.
golinux

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## Re: Refracta wiki project

Wed Feb 20, 2013 8:18 pm

Have updated all the pages to the new logo and navigation. I have one other idea for the logo. It will be a surprise if I can do it.
Have fixed the screenshot page.
Added pages for downloads and resources (we could title that RTFM! . . . jk . . . probably not a good idea). Please start collecting resources and links to fill out those pages.
*edit* . . . changed the font on the logo. I thought I had the one on the bg image - close but not the exact one. It doesn't have to be italic but I kind of like the movement on the very static pages.
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## Re: Refracta wiki project

Wed Feb 20, 2013 11:47 pm

A few more goodies . . .
Desktop background for wheezy
Building on that, I came up with this idea. Everything else is still in the old format.
nadir

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## Re: Refracta wiki project

Thu Feb 21, 2013 2:02 am

> golinux wrote:Been cleaning things up - everything now more consistent. As a compromise I changed the background color to #f6f6f6.

No need for a compromise. Like said: to me white is white, however you call it.
golinux

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## Re: Refracta wiki project

Thu Feb 21, 2013 4:53 am

Here's another option. Almost transparent repeating tile taken from the bg image. It's a little dark but the subtle texture kinda makes it work. Have it up in two places. Rest of the pages are as before.
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meandean

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## Re: Refracta wiki project

Thu Feb 21, 2013 11:42 am

nice...
fsmithred

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## Re: Refracta wiki project

Thu Feb 21, 2013 11:54 am

> meandean wrote:nice...

Yeah, and with the new logo it feels faster!
I was working on the release notes last night, and I'm getting close to finished.
Logo at the bottom does not work for me - I have to scroll down to see it. I guess I'm one of the few people who does not maximize the window. I will add that image to the desktop background choices. I think the translucent looks better than the opaque.
The white could be a little darker. Nadir, take a look at the background "white" on the release notes. Or try the color I picked and noted a few posts above this. It's a lighter shade of a pale yellow-green hue that I plucked from one of the stars on the left.
Edit: #dfe0dc
Edit2: I'm on a different computer now, running refracta-606, and I can't scroll down to see the logo on this page - http://www.saynotogmos.org/ss/refracta/ ... eader.html
golinux

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## Re: Refracta wiki project

Thu Feb 21, 2013 2:10 pm

> fsmithred wrote:

> > meandean wrote:nice...

> Yeah, and with the new logo it feels faster!

I'm thinking of rotating the figure in the logo so it parallels the same direction as the font. Then it would really feel faster! LOL!!

> fsmithred wrote:I was working on the release notes last night, and I'm getting close to finished.

Great!

> fsmithred wrote:Logo at the bottom does not work for me - I have to scroll down to see it. I guess I'm one of the few people who does not maximize the window.

I expected that wouldn't work for reasons you just described. I don't maximize my browser horizontally just vertically but at 1680 x 1050 it works here. Oh well, it's fun playing with layouts . . .

> fsmithred wrote:I will add that image to the desktop background choices.

I'm guessing it looks OK on your desktop?

> fsmithred wrote:I think the translucent looks better than the opaque.

You referring to the bg tile as opposed to a flat color?

> fsmithred wrote:The white could be a little darker.

If we go with the 'translucent' bg no 'opaque' color will be used.

> fsmithred wrote:It's a lighter shade of a pale yellow-green hue that I plucked from one of the stars on the left. Edit: #dfe0dc

That a little too yellowish imo and irrelevant if we use the tiling effect.

> fsmithred wrote:I'm on a different computer now, running refracta-606, and I can't scroll down to see the logo on this page - http://www.saynotogmos.org/ss/refracta/ ... eader.html

Irrelvant since we won't be using that bg on the site. I would guess that it's either different browsers or a different version of the same browser.
Which reminds me of something else I just remembered . . . Back when I was doing a lot of this work, IE couldn't handle transparent pngs and would show the transparent areas as white. To avoid any display problems, I will probably convert the logo png to a gif.
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nadir

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## Re: Refracta wiki project

Thu Feb 21, 2013 2:27 pm

> golinux wrote:

> > fsmithred wrote:30Gb/s connection here, so pretty much everything loads fast. No, I didn't notice, but thanks. I still miss my ncsa mosaic browser with images turned off.
> > Not sure why you're not seeing the link to this forum. It says "nadir's forum" and it links to this site. The one that goes to github says "fsmithred's github". If you want to change "nadir's forum" to "Refracta Help/Discussion Forum" and "fsmithred's github" to "Refracta at github" or something like that, that would be good.

> Duh . . . I expected that link to take me to http://resident.dyndns.info/. That is what I consider to be 'nadir's forum'. He may have set up this place . . . kudos for that. But how is it 'his' forum? Why not drop the ego/identification thing and just title the links Refracta forum and Refracta github?

Bit more about that, only for info:
I asked fsmithred a few times to change it to refracta-forum. He didn't do it (obviously). If he wants to change it he can at any time, and for me that is fine.
Setting the forum up: I think Dean wanted to tease me (like in "if you think you can do better, go to freeforums and create one yourself", but he has put it friendly - and perhaps he didn't mean it that way neither).
That takes about 5 minutes, and then about half an hour to set up a few sections. traveler added a bit too ( and loves to make a bit bohai about it).
To make it short: It really ain't no big thing to set up a forum at freeforums.org (i am happy that i am rid of any admin duties anyway). It makes some people very proud, but i am not one of them (and i have seen Dean create two forums in a day ... he sure could and can drive people nut. The ideas, where to host what, are always good, though).

> fsmithred wrote:
> The white could be a little darker. Nadir, take a look at the background "white" on the release notes. Or try the color I picked and noted a few posts above this. It's a lighter shade of a pale yellow-green hue that I plucked from one of the stars on the left.

Sorry, no kidding, but i am a bit confused by all those links. As soon i see a link, i have a look at it, what i see looks good, btw, but i am not able to navigate to any sites (if you mean refracat-release-notes-7.0 at saynotogmos: Compared to the white in code-blocks it looks good, else, for me, it is too white. Luke said: i like the post boxes here, at refracta.freeforums.org - or something like that. Really minor.
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I got to scroll down to see the logo to, if it is at the bottom. The logo looks cool, it looks good at the bottom too, but i got to scroll.
fsmithred

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## Re: Refracta wiki project

Thu Feb 21, 2013 3:00 pm

Yes, the logo at the bottom looks good for a desktop background.
Translucent vs. opaque on the new refracta logo in the desktop background image.
Darker white in the text areas of the web pages. Nothing to do with logo. Or maybe I don't understand what you're asking.
Sorry nadir, I don't recall that you asked me to change it. Not saying you didn't - I probably said OK and then forgot to do it. The couple of times I edited anything in those web pages, it was a lot of trouble.
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