Comments on: A brand new look for KDE Community forums http://www.dennogumi.org/2009/06/a-brand-new-look-for-kde-comunity-forums On the web since 1999 Wed, 28 Jul 2010 08:49:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Gen2ly http://www.dennogumi.org/2009/06/a-brand-new-look-for-kde-comunity-forums/comment-page-1#comment-11450 Gen2ly Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:48:18 +0000 http://www.dennogumi.org/?p=633#comment-11450 I'm able to login now. Thank you very much Sayak. I’m able to login now. Thank you very much Sayak.

]]> By: Sayak Banerjee http://www.dennogumi.org/2009/06/a-brand-new-look-for-kde-comunity-forums/comment-page-1#comment-11448 Sayak Banerjee Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:14:38 +0000 http://www.dennogumi.org/?p=633#comment-11448 @Gen2ly We had some issues with mail which have been hopefully fixed. I have activated your account manually. You should now be able to post at the forums. sayakb @Gen2ly

We had some issues with mail which have been hopefully fixed. I have activated your account manually. You should now be able to post at the forums.

sayakb

]]> By: Gen2ly http://www.dennogumi.org/2009/06/a-brand-new-look-for-kde-comunity-forums/comment-page-1#comment-11445 Gen2ly Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:57:28 +0000 http://www.dennogumi.org/?p=633#comment-11445 I tried to register on the KDE forums last week and I have yet to get a reply. I've check my spam folder and there is nothing.. If I try to log in I get: The specified username is currently inactive. If you have problems activating your account, please contact a board administrator. I tried to register again but it tells me that the username is already in use. Possibly there is a problem with the forums?? Anything that I need to do to get registered? The name I registered under is: Gen2ly. I tried to register on the KDE forums last week and I have yet to get
a reply. I’ve check my spam folder and there is nothing.. If
I try to log in I get:

The specified username is currently inactive. If you have problems
activating your account, please contact a board administrator.

I tried to register again but it tells me that the username is already
in use. Possibly there is a problem with the forums?? Anything that
I need to do to get registered? The name I registered under is: Gen2ly.

]]> By: Jeff Goldschrafe http://www.dennogumi.org/2009/06/a-brand-new-look-for-kde-comunity-forums/comment-page-1#comment-11357 Jeff Goldschrafe Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:20:29 +0000 http://www.dennogumi.org/?p=633#comment-11357 It's very pretty. However, there are a few UI/usability quirks I'd like to see addressed: - The forum category headings are pretty, but if you're going to use that gradient, you really need to right-align it so that the gray goes almost all the way across. It loses almost all of its visual separation when it stops a quarter of the way across the page. It may as well not be there at all. - KDE has a consistent font in all of its branding, and the logo banner doesn't use it. It makes it seem like an unofficial, vaguely-related site, instead of a part of kde.org proper. - The horizontal margins/padding around the "Search" and "FAQ" links look incredibly wrong and out-of-place. The search box below looks like it wants to be aligned with something in that header, but it isn't. (Maybe "Advanced Search" or something would make a better link closer to the search button to remove visual redundancy and end-user confusion.) - The whole "Login/Register" thing up there is a tremendous waste of space and I can't find a compelling reason not to have them in a single row aligned next to each other. And while I know this is a phpBB convention, I don't think the "view latest posts/view unanswered topics" belong in the same place. - The "Forum/Topics/Posts/Last post" bit above the forum doesn't actually seem attached to anything. With the UI structured the way it is, this really needs to be displayed below each category heading instead of once at the top. - The line-height of the fonts seems to be excessive and while it increases visual spacing, it seems to actually inhibit readability a little bit because there's no margin between certain related items (see: spacing between forum descriptions and moderator/subforum lists.) It’s very pretty. However, there are a few UI/usability quirks I’d like to see addressed:

- The forum category headings are pretty, but if you’re going to use that gradient, you really need to right-align it so that the gray goes almost all the way across. It loses almost all of its visual separation when it stops a quarter of the way across the page. It may as well not be there at all.
- KDE has a consistent font in all of its branding, and the logo banner doesn’t use it. It makes it seem like an unofficial, vaguely-related site, instead of a part of kde.org proper.
- The horizontal margins/padding around the “Search” and “FAQ” links look incredibly wrong and out-of-place. The search box below looks like it wants to be aligned with something in that header, but it isn’t. (Maybe “Advanced Search” or something would make a better link closer to the search button to remove visual redundancy and end-user confusion.)
- The whole “Login/Register” thing up there is a tremendous waste of space and I can’t find a compelling reason not to have them in a single row aligned next to each other. And while I know this is a phpBB convention, I don’t think the “view latest posts/view unanswered topics” belong in the same place.
- The “Forum/Topics/Posts/Last post” bit above the forum doesn’t actually seem attached to anything. With the UI structured the way it is, this really needs to be displayed below each category heading instead of once at the top.
- The line-height of the fonts seems to be excessive and while it increases visual spacing, it seems to actually inhibit readability a little bit because there’s no margin between certain related items (see: spacing between forum descriptions and moderator/subforum lists.)

]]> By: Einar http://www.dennogumi.org/2009/06/a-brand-new-look-for-kde-comunity-forums/comment-page-1#comment-11353 Einar Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:30:38 +0000 http://www.dennogumi.org/?p=633#comment-11353 @Matt Williams: At the start, there were just two people in the team, neverendingo and OhReally (the latter now retired from administration). Now the team's much bigger , workflows and requirements changed, and that is why we moved to phpBB. @Matt Williams: At the start, there were just two people in the team, neverendingo and OhReally (the latter now retired from administration). Now the team’s much bigger , workflows and requirements changed, and that is why we moved to phpBB.

]]> By: Matt Williams http://www.dennogumi.org/2009/06/a-brand-new-look-for-kde-comunity-forums/comment-page-1#comment-11352 Matt Williams Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:26:04 +0000 http://www.dennogumi.org/?p=633#comment-11352 TBH, I never understood why pbpBB wasn't used from the start instead of finding some proprietary board and making it more open. I do agree that maybe more contrast is needed between rows though. TBH, I never understood why pbpBB wasn’t used from the start instead of finding some proprietary board and making it more open.
I do agree that maybe more contrast is needed between rows though.

]]> By: Dion Moult http://www.dennogumi.org/2009/06/a-brand-new-look-for-kde-comunity-forums/comment-page-1#comment-11351 Dion Moult Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:04:22 +0000 http://www.dennogumi.org/?p=633#comment-11351 I for one actually really like this new design. I have stopped going to forums for a long time but the KDE forums is one of those that I quite enjoy poking through nowadays - this theme really matches the fresh development work that is going on. The only problem I see is that it doesn't seem to be a fluid layout which should feel a bit weird for some people with large resolutions. @blueget: we all have our preferences but I think perhaps maybe they can keep the old layout as a user option. Try suggesting that. I for one actually really like this new design. I have stopped going to forums for a long time but the KDE forums is one of those that I quite enjoy poking through nowadays – this theme really matches the fresh development work that is going on.

The only problem I see is that it doesn’t seem to be a fluid layout which should feel a bit weird for some people with large resolutions.

@blueget: we all have our preferences but I think perhaps maybe they can keep the old layout as a user option. Try suggesting that.

]]> By: blueget http://www.dennogumi.org/2009/06/a-brand-new-look-for-kde-comunity-forums/comment-page-1#comment-11350 blueget Sun, 28 Jun 2009 09:38:58 +0000 http://www.dennogumi.org/?p=633#comment-11350 The old one was definitely better. It had more contrast and wasn't cluttered with graphics, you could see the votes in the "Brainstorm" section WITHOUT having to click on every single thread etc. etc. The New Design just sucks. The old one was definitely better. It had more contrast and wasn’t cluttered with graphics, you could see the votes in the “Brainstorm” section WITHOUT having to click on every single thread etc. etc.

The New Design just sucks.

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