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New css customization

Sannse November 5, 2009

Hi All,

Those of you using custom skins on your wikis may have noticed the blue tint on the header of the new "Latest Activity" box, and the gray footer. These work well with the basic "Monaco Sapphire" scheme, but not so well with some custom looks. This blue is also used for the user page masthead, and will be used for future skin elements as well.

What we forgot to do, was update the help files to tell you how to change this color, and to send out a message to let you know of the adjustment. Some wikis have made the change already, and are looking great! But some of you may want to update your css pages to match the "tint" and "neutral" classes to your overall color scheme.

If you use one of the pre-set schemes, then you don't need to change anything. If you use a custom scheme, and don't feel the blue tint and gray work for your wiki, then please look at the customizing monaco help page for details on how to adjust the colors.

I'm sorry we didn't inform you of this change and get instructions on customizing to you sooner. Please mail us via Special:Contact if you need any help with changing the skin to fix this.

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Thank you for that lead Uberfuzzy. Tweaking widget_sprite.png worked like a charm and so we now have orange/red hues for better contrast on the dark patterned widget_dark_top.

November 9, 2009 by Najevi
@najevi, yes, there is, i'll get you the css
they come from this sprite sheet,
the css sprite rules are here, http://trac.wikia-code.com/browser/wikia/trunk/skins/monaco/css/widgets.css#L68
if you keep them the same size (just swapping in new images/colors), you only need to override the background image line here, http://trac.wikia-code.com/browser/wikia/trunk/skins/monaco/css/widgets.css#L75 with a url to one on your wiki
i think

November 5, 2009 by Uberfuzzy
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Just what the doctor ordered ... Thank you!
I had long ago noticed that the spanner and X sprites/icons (i.e. the .toolboxItem companion classes: .edit & .close ) in top left of various widgets do not display well at rappelz.wikia.com due to some fancy custom skin CSS applied there. By contrast the .addBookmark sprite does display well enough on a dark/patterned background.
Might an alternate set of sprites suited to darker backgrounds be made available? (Maybe featuring bright yellow or perhaps red/orange.)

November 5, 2009 by Najevi
Yeah, that's true! If they had let us know, we could've come up with a solution, like my idea to make the new version and old version seperate widgets!

November 5, 2009 by Kagimizu
I have to say, and I say this as a compliment and don't mean any offense at all, it's nice to see an announcement from the community team expressing concern over not informing the community about something. Far too often, IMO, changes in a number of aspects of wikis are just forced on us without any forewarning or any chance for us to join in on the process of giving you our thoughts before a change is implemented. Letting us in on this process (yes I know I'm ranting now) would, I think, significantly cut down on the controversy surrounding changes like My Home, MagCloud, or the new latest activity widget.
Thank you for keeping this in your thoughts! =)

November 5, 2009 by Brandon Rhea