Hello together, I just wanted to let you know that I gave some love to the geany.org website today (since it was Valentines day yesterday ;) ). No big thing, don't expect a full re-design or anything. What you will see is:
* There is a new page "Reviews" in the "Geany" section, where to write about any website which provides Reviews about Geany. If you know any website, blog or online magazine which wrote about Geany, please let me know so I can add it there.
* There is a new section called "Contribute", including four new pages: Developers, Translators, Documentation and Support. Please pay attention to those and let me know if you agree or dis-agree with the things I wrote there, if you're missing something or if you found any issue to fix. Feedback is highly appreciated.
* Any text on geany.org got a small rework, in special I changed some wording issues and added links to other pages within the texts so handling for users and new visitors should be easier. I also removed any open-in-new-window-or-tab links since it should be the users decision if he wants a link to open in a new browser tab or window or anything else. Another thing I did here was to make consistent use of header levels - that means, changed some headers from h3 to h2 and so on...
* I gave some love to the css file and redesigned the headers, added some letter-spacing, increased the above and below the header and changed the color of the headers to gray. - Let me know if you like it or not
What still has to be done is updating the screenshot gallery as I promised on IRC today. If you like to make some screenshots of your Geany in action, feel free to send them to me but consider to not shoot any content which may be sensible.
Best Regards, Dominic
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:16:47 +0100 Dominic Hopf dmaphy@googlemail.com wrote:
Hello together, I just wanted to let you know that I gave some love to the geany.org website today (since it was Valentines day yesterday ;) ). No big thing, don't expect a full re-design or anything.
A good idea would be to change white background to a colour less agressive for the eyes.
Denis ________________________________
la vita e estrany
Am Montag, den 15.02.2010, 23:58 +0100 schrieb spir:
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:16:47 +0100 Dominic Hopf dmaphy@googlemail.com wrote:
Hello together, I just wanted to let you know that I gave some love to the geany.org website today (since it was Valentines day yesterday ;) ). No big thing, don't expect a full re-design or anything.
A good idea would be to change white background to a colour less agressive for the eyes.
Since you're the second guy who mentioned the white background, I've changed it to a light gray and accordingly made the sidebar and siteheader a bit darker. Does this look better to you now? :)
Regards, Dominic
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:46:24 +0100 Dominic Hopf dmaphy@googlemail.com wrote:
Am Montag, den 15.02.2010, 23:58 +0100 schrieb spir:
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:16:47 +0100 Dominic Hopf dmaphy@googlemail.com wrote:
Hello together, I just wanted to let you know that I gave some love to the geany.org website today (since it was Valentines day yesterday ;) ). No big thing, don't expect a full re-design or anything.
A good idea would be to change white background to a colour less agressive for the eyes.
Since you're the second guy who mentioned the white background, I've changed it to a light gray and accordingly made the sidebar and siteheader a bit darker. Does this look better to you now? :)
Regards, Dominic
Sorry, I cannot see any difference on my computer (with ubuntu 8.10 + firefox 3.5.8). The backgroud is still white.
Denis ________________________________
la vita e estrany
spir wrote:
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:46:24 +0100 Dominic Hopf dmaphy@googlemail.com wrote:
Am Montag, den 15.02.2010, 23:58 +0100 schrieb spir:
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:16:47 +0100 Dominic Hopf dmaphy@googlemail.com wrote:
Hello together, I just wanted to let you know that I gave some love to the geany.org website today (since it was Valentines day yesterday ;) ). No big thing, don't expect a full re-design or anything.
A good idea would be to change white background to a colour less agressive for the eyes.
Since you're the second guy who mentioned the white background, I've changed it to a light gray and accordingly made the sidebar and siteheader a bit darker. Does this look better to you now? :)
Regards, Dominic
Sorry, I cannot see any difference on my computer (with ubuntu 8.10 + firefox 3.5.8). The backgroud is still white.
I think this might could be caused by the used theme as this is also setting from time to time background color depending on use browser etc.
Cheers, Frank
Frank Lanitz wrote:
spir wrote:
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:46:24 +0100 Dominic Hopf dmaphy@googlemail.com wrote:
Am Montag, den 15.02.2010, 23:58 +0100 schrieb spir:
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:16:47 +0100 Dominic Hopf dmaphy@googlemail.com wrote:
Hello together, I just wanted to let you know that I gave some love to the geany.org website today (since it was Valentines day yesterday ;) ). No big thing, don't expect a full re-design or anything.
A good idea would be to change white background to a colour less agressive for the eyes.
Since you're the second guy who mentioned the white background, I've changed it to a light gray and accordingly made the sidebar and siteheader a bit darker. Does this look better to you now? :)
Regards, Dominic
Sorry, I cannot see any difference on my computer (with ubuntu 8.10 + firefox 3.5.8). The backgroud is still white.
I think this might could be caused by the used theme as this is also setting from time to time background color depending on use browser etc.
Cheers, Frank
Heh... I'll be the third person to mention a preference for a non-white background.... ;)
It still seems to be white for me as well. I use a dark-gray colour as default background, but I switched back to the default FF colors, then went to the Geany site. It was a brilliant white.... :(
I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 and FF 3.6
Maybe try a dark gray? - Andy
Am Freitag, den 19.02.2010, 08:51 +1300 schrieb Andy Elvey:
Frank Lanitz wrote:
spir wrote:
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:46:24 +0100 Dominic Hopf dmaphy@googlemail.com wrote:
Am Montag, den 15.02.2010, 23:58 +0100 schrieb spir:
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:16:47 +0100 Dominic Hopf dmaphy@googlemail.com wrote:
Hello together, I just wanted to let you know that I gave some love to the geany.org website today (since it was Valentines day yesterday ;) ). No big thing, don't expect a full re-design or anything.
A good idea would be to change white background to a colour less agressive for the eyes.
Since you're the second guy who mentioned the white background, I've changed it to a light gray and accordingly made the sidebar and siteheader a bit darker. Does this look better to you now? :)
Regards, Dominic
Sorry, I cannot see any difference on my computer (with ubuntu 8.10 + firefox 3.5.8). The backgroud is still white.
I think this might could be caused by the used theme as this is also setting from time to time background color depending on use browser etc.
Cheers, Frank
Heh... I'll be the third person to mention a preference for a non-white background.... ;)
It still seems to be white for me as well. I use a dark-gray colour as default background, but I switched back to the default FF colors, then went to the Geany site. It was a brilliant white.... :(
I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 and FF 3.6
Maybe try a dark gray?
- Andy
To make sure what we are talking about I made a screenshot and uploaded it at [1]. I actually changed the content area containing the text (the welcome message on the screenshot) from white to a light gray in hope it won't hurt your eyes that much when reading the text. Accordingly I changed the navigation sidebar on the left and the site header containing the Geany icon and the search field to a darker gray so the percentage between content area and sidebar/header stays the same.
Do you also wish the padding areas on the left and right to be changed to something darker?
Regards, Dominic
[1] http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=bildschirmfoto-1h444.png
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 7:36 PM, Dominic Hopf dmaphy@googlemail.com wrote:
Heh... I'll be the third person to mention a preference for a non-white background.... ;)
It still seems to be white for me as well. I use a dark-gray colour as default background, but I switched back to the default FF colors, then went to the Geany site. It was a brilliant white.... :(
I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 and FF 3.6
Maybe try a dark gray?
Here's the fourth one. I'm using Firefox 3 with KDE 3.5.4 on Slackware 12 with Gtk colour adjustment off.
To make sure what we are talking about I made a screenshot and uploaded it at [1]. I actually changed the content area containing the text (the welcome message on the screenshot) from white to a light gray in hope it won't hurt your eyes that much when reading the text. Accordingly I changed the navigation sidebar on the left and the site header containing the Geany icon and the search field to a darker gray so the percentage between content area and sidebar/header stays the same.
Do you also wish the padding areas on the left and right to be changed to something darker?
Yes, that would be great. Something a lot darker. Padding area is just for ... well, padding ;) Since there are no "live" colors on the page, something needs to create contrast between padding and content. Try changing body background color to #9c9c9c for example to see what I mean:
body { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #333333; font-size: 10pt; background-color:#9c9c9c; margin:0px; }
If you use Firebug or WebDeveloper extension in Firefox you can easily change this with Edit CSS or similar option and try it out "online" without changing the actual CSS file.
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 7:58 PM, Milan Babuskov milan.babuskov@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, that would be great. Something a lot darker. Padding area is just for ... well, padding ;) Since there are no "live" colors on the page, something needs to create contrast between padding and content. Try changing body background color to #9c9c9c for example to see what I mean:
body { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #333333; font-size: 10pt; background-color:#9c9c9c; margin:0px; }
Or, even better, use background-color: #678
Well, just a thought. To me it's most important that Geany itself works great!
Regards,
Milan Babuskov wrote:
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 7:58 PM, Milan Babuskov milan.babuskov@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, that would be great. Something a lot darker. Padding area is just for ... well, padding ;) Since there are no "live" colors on the page, something needs to create contrast between padding and content. Try changing body background color to #9c9c9c for example to see what I mean:
body { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #333333; font-size: 10pt; background-color:#9c9c9c; margin:0px; }
Or, even better, use background-color: #678
Well, just a thought. To me it's most important that Geany itself works great!
Regards,
Agreed. I actually only visit the home page to grab a copy of the latest releases when they come out. Another suggestion - a black background with white (or green) text. - Andy
On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 09:24:03 +1300 Andy Elvey andy.elvey@paradise.net.nz wrote:
Another suggestion - a black background with white (or green) text.
Bad idea IMHO.
Cheers, Frank
Am Samstag, den 20.02.2010, 00:19 +0100 schrieb Frank Lanitz:
On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 09:24:03 +1300 Andy Elvey andy.elvey@paradise.net.nz wrote:
Another suggestion - a black background with white (or green) text.
Bad idea IMHO.
Well, black background and green font doesn't actually represent Geany that much. I like the idea of Milan with coloring the padding areas in gray. But I'm thinking of using a Tango color, e.g. #eeeeec for that, since the Geany icon on the top left is also realized with Tango colors afaik.
What do you guys think about that?
Regs, Dominic
Hi Dominic,
I'd urge caution in the choice of colours since they can interact badly with themes. Keeping the current muted colours is better IMO. A dark background with light text is significantly different to most other pages and so is likely to be a surprise to most users. And I got totally over green text terminals back in 1975 ;-)
Note to those who still get a white background on the Geany homepage, I had to apply a theme (even if it was supposed to be the default for my distribution) before the background went grey. Firefox bug, gnome bug, who knows??
Cheers Lex
On 20 February 2010 10:45, Dominic Hopf dmaphy@googlemail.com wrote:
Am Samstag, den 20.02.2010, 00:19 +0100 schrieb Frank Lanitz:
On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 09:24:03 +1300 Andy Elvey andy.elvey@paradise.net.nz wrote:
Another suggestion - a black background with white (or green) text.
Bad idea IMHO.
Well, black background and green font doesn't actually represent Geany that much. I like the idea of Milan with coloring the padding areas in gray. But I'm thinking of using a Tango color, e.g. #eeeeec for that, since the Geany icon on the top left is also realized with Tango colors afaik.
What do you guys think about that?
Regs, Dominic
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On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:45:48 +0100 Dominic Hopf dmaphy@googlemail.com wrote:
Am Samstag, den 20.02.2010, 00:19 +0100 schrieb Frank Lanitz:
On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 09:24:03 +1300 Andy Elvey andy.elvey@paradise.net.nz wrote:
Another suggestion - a black background with white (or green) text.
Bad idea IMHO.
Well, black background and green font doesn't actually represent Geany that much. I like the idea of Milan with coloring the padding areas in gray. But I'm thinking of using a Tango color, e.g. #eeeeec for that, since the Geany icon on the top left is also realized with Tango colors afaik.
What do you guys think about that?
Tangocolours are fine.
Cheers, Frank
Howdy all. Here's a picture of my Geany. Its version 18.1, with the Murrinna Night Orange Theme for GTK and the Geany Dark Scheme for syntax highlighting. The code that's ope (shameless plug) is for Geany Portable :) I hope you like.
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Dominic Hopf dmaphy@googlemail.com wrote:
Hello together, I just wanted to let you know that I gave some love to the geany.org website today (since it was Valentines day yesterday ;) ). No big thing, don't expect a full re-design or anything. What you will see is:
- There is a new page "Reviews" in the "Geany" section, where to write
about any website which provides Reviews about Geany. If you know any website, blog or online magazine which wrote about Geany, please let me know so I can add it there.
- There is a new section called "Contribute", including four new
pages: Developers, Translators, Documentation and Support. Please pay attention to those and let me know if you agree or dis-agree with the things I wrote there, if you're missing something or if you found any issue to fix. Feedback is highly appreciated.
- Any text on geany.org got a small rework, in special I changed some
wording issues and added links to other pages within the texts so handling for users and new visitors should be easier. I also removed any open-in-new-window-or-tab links since it should be the users decision if he wants a link to open in a new browser tab or window or anything else. Another thing I did here was to make consistent use of header levels - that means, changed some headers from h3 to h2 and so on...
- I gave some love to the css file and redesigned the headers, added
some letter-spacing, increased the above and below the header and changed the color of the headers to gray. - Let me know if you like it or not
What still has to be done is updating the screenshot gallery as I promised on IRC today. If you like to make some screenshots of your Geany in action, feel free to send them to me but consider to not shoot any content which may be sensible.
Best Regards, Dominic
-- Dominic Hopf dmaphy@googlemail.com
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Am Samstag, den 27.02.2010, 21:43 -0600 schrieb Oliver Krystal:
Howdy all. Here's a picture of my Geany. Its version 18.1, with the Murrinna Night Orange Theme for GTK and the Geany Dark Scheme for syntax highlighting. The code that's ope (shameless plug) is for Geany Portable :) I hope you like.
Looks very cool! Thanks!
On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 21:43:14 -0600 Oliver Krystal mr.soup12@gmail.com wrote:
Howdy all. Here's a picture of my Geany. Its version 18.1, with the Murrinna Night Orange Theme for GTK and the Geany Dark Scheme for syntax highlighting. The code that's ope (shameless plug) is for Geany Portable :) I hope you like.
Here is a screenshot from 0.19 (svn 4722) with recent guild of GeanyLaTeX and a couple of other plugins active, but having a C file opened.
Cheers, Frank
Am Samstag, den 06.03.2010, 11:34 +0100 schrieb Frank Lanitz:
On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 21:43:14 -0600 Oliver Krystal mr.soup12@gmail.com wrote:
Howdy all. Here's a picture of my Geany. Its version 18.1, with the Murrinna Night Orange Theme for GTK and the Geany Dark Scheme for syntax highlighting. The code that's ope (shameless plug) is for Geany Portable :) I hope you like.
Here is a screenshot from 0.19 (svn 4722) with recent guild of GeanyLaTeX and a couple of other plugins active, but having a C file opened.
Thanks very much. :)
Unfortunately didn't found the time yet to work on this, but anyone who likes to contribute some pictures for that item in my todo-queue, feel free to send screenshots to me. :)
Regards, Dominic
