General site updates, TODO list and discussion

Duke "Tape" Eiyeron · January 21, 2015, 04:13:15 PM

That's the Start Menu, not the Desktop.

Dream of Omnimaga · January 21, 2015, 04:27:47 PM

Maybe, but I am betting in a not so distant future, with the current minimal design trend, that it will be like Atari with just 1 screen soon

novenary · January 21, 2015, 04:30:46 PM

Hmmm. Windows 8.1 is actually much better. Once configured properly it's really functional. Best windows I've ever used.

Dream of Omnimaga · January 21, 2015, 04:51:30 PM

To be honest I wouldn't mind such start menu in mobile mode, but with a mouse and a computer I prefer the classic start menu. The Windows 8.x start menu is the only reason why I'm skipping straight to Windows 10.

novenary · January 21, 2015, 04:58:50 PM

I don't really need the start menu anymore actually. I changed mine to display the list of apps, the rest in in the sidebar menu. You can also install classic shell.

Dream of Omnimaga · January 21, 2015, 05:31:04 PM

Oh right, I forgot about that.

Dream of Omnimaga · January 22, 2015, 08:04:31 AM

UPDATE: Until we get a suitable Recent Posts mod, I did some changes on the current Recent Topics block:

All I did was taking the SimplePortal block and making everything one line, though. It's possible that there might be some bugs if I forgot to remove some parts of the code. But at least there should be less scrolling

Duke "Tape" Eiyeron · January 22, 2015, 01:40:47 PM

It's fine for now I think.

Hayleia · January 22, 2015, 06:12:30 PM

I kind of like it but I thought about something to maybe make it even better. Could the topic name be next to the last poster ? I mean that for example, instead of having

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Smartphone technical discussion | [General Hardware and Modding] | CKH4 on Today at 06:06:57 pm
we would get

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[General Hardware and Modding] | Smartphone technical discussion | CKH4 on Today at 06:06:57 pm
or something else, but not with the subforum in the middle.
Because when I check that list, I look at interesting topic titles then at the name of the last poster to see if I already read it, but almost never at the subforum so it would be great in my opinion if I could easily see the last poster (instead of maybe slipping a line due to the last poster being far away from the topic title).
Or maybe different colors for two consecutive lines (like on WalrusIRC) to avoid slipping ?

Also, why is there a ")" after the date ?

Dream of Omnimaga · January 22, 2015, 07:15:53 PM

Hm good suggestion actually. As for the ) I don't know

Yuki · January 22, 2015, 08:01:39 PM

Actually yeah the other way around would probably be better.

Dream of Omnimaga · January 22, 2015, 11:31:26 PM

I'll probably make it so that the sub-forum is aligned right and the topic name left, like at https://web.archive.org/web/20130420063802/http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=ezportal;sa=page;p=5 , because I tried with left alignment for everything and it looks horrible. Centered isn't any better.

EDIT: Ok now it's like back in the old days, although the alignment is a bit different.

Hayleia · January 23, 2015, 05:49:33 AM

Well that's perfect now in my opinion

(also, lol at the moment when you replaced the extra ")" with "the game"

).

Yuki · January 23, 2015, 05:50:55 AM

Yep, I like it this way. (other than the "the game" every line but yeah).

Hayleia · January 23, 2015, 05:54:15 AM

Wait, or maybe a very little suggestion if possible

Could the "new" label (the orange thing) be moved between the subforum and the thread ? Like

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[Off-Topic] [New] Funny (and awesome) picture thread , by Streetwalrus Today at 05:14:52 am
Instead of

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[Off-Topic] Funny (and awesome) picture thread [New] , by Streetwalrus Today at 05:14:52 am
?

Because for now, there are orange labels all over the place

But if you move them here, they would be aligned and it would feel less messy