Vivaldi Forum mod

[luetage]

@acidinmyfridge It's ok, I decided to save it. It's the first theme that was ever made for Vivaldi, it's probably worth it. In progress.

[luetage]

I'm done, we are at version 1.25 now. Sprucey Bonus Dark is finished (350 lines of code later...). If you wanna test it, you might have to enable developer mode and update extensions manually -- the update is live on the store, but receiving it automatically usually takes some hours. I hope it turned out ok, I reused some of the design choices of the custom theme to make this easier, but generally tried to stay true to the basics. The white link color I would have changed, but it was a conscious choice by the original author. To each their own ^^

[luetage]

Version 1.31
Brings back the Tooltips mod. It had been removed in 1.0 and instead tooltips were disabled by default, because I thought they are causing a flickering of the header menu buttons, but it turned out the problem was more complicated than that. I don't think anyone really needs these tooltips, but it's better to have the choice. Enable the mod to disable the header menu and navigation tooltips (regular tooltips in the body always display anyway).

As a bonus I add the download for a theme I made just now. I call it Pro because it features golden forum links ^^

Download: pro.json

By the way, you can also share themes by pasting the hexadecimal colors of the theme. You can look them up by inspecting the site with devtools (the first 7 colors you are presented with are the user chosen ones, the rest is calculated and not needed), or you click on the color in the custom theme options interface and open the second tab. This will display the hex code on the bottom and you can copy it from there. Overall exporting and importing is simpler though.

For the Pro theme it would look like this:
Background: #2a3132
Foreground: #d9dacf
Highlight: #3ea6ba
Button: #763626
Dropdown: #363f40
Link: #90afc5
Link Post: #b8a68a

[hlehyaric]

@luetage Great. And thanks a lot.

[Steffie]

Hi @luetage -- i continue to use your extension "permanently", & continue to think it's excellent. This morning though i stumbled across something i'd never noticed before, & need your advice pls.

My V "daily driver" is Snapshot, but this morning to test something in Stable i temporarily changed to that for my morning forum browsing. Stable, soon after launching, picked up the latest version of your extension, which as you know is disabled til the user reauthorises it. Because therefore i was browsing the forum without your extension [i did not initially realise this], i noticed a bit of info i'd never seen before:

With the extension re-enabled, this helpful extra info vanishes [ditto with all RHS boxes unticked]:

What am i doing wrong pls? I want my cake & eat it... ie, keep using your extension but also retain visibility of this extra info. Is there a Setting that i have wrong pls?

PS: I later verified the same behaviour occurs in Snapshot.

[luetage]

Oh yeah, I removed this additional info in September when Vivaldi introduced it. As you can see Vivaldi hasn't finished styling it, is using multiple font-sizes and it just doesn't look good. You can read about it in the changelog, but I think I mentioned it in this thread too.

We can talk about going back on this, enabling this as extra mod, or styling it to make it work. But for now you can simply go to default.css in the extension directory and delete the according css (delete the whole *threaded replies cleanup* section from line 58).

I initially hoped Vivaldi would go through and continue styling or changing it, but they haven't. Back then Vivaldi also introduced the big header and didn't finish styling it either. I don't quite understand it to be honest.

[Steffie]

@luetage Excellent, now fixed in both V's, ta muchly.

[luetage]

I mean, look at this:

vs

The avatar pictures are so small that you can't see who it is anyway, and they have random text decoration: underline between them, the font-sizes for replies and last reply are entirely new for posts and have different coloring, and the last reply info is somewhat superfluous. I didn't think anyone would miss it

[Steffie]

@luetage said in Vivaldi Forum mod:

I didn't think anyone would miss it

Steffie, a champion of lost & hopeless causes.

[luetage]

@steffie I just tried to fix this again, but I can't seem to find a satisfying solution. Seems like I will be keeping it hidden for the time being. This poses a problem for you, since you would need to delete these lines after every update, which is annoying. From your picture and from what i can recall you are using Stylus or Stylish to sideload a personal theme. It would be best if you reenable this for yourself with the help of this extension.

Just add a.threaded-replies.no-select .avatars, a.threaded-replies.no-select span.replies-last.hidden-xs {display: unset;} to your theme css and the threaded replies should appear vanilla, without the need to do this repeatedly.

[Steffie]

@luetage Oh wow, now this is way cool of you to do that for me -- thank you. I just piloted your suggestion in my Stable [coz SS is currently in use for my nightly Netflixing dose (Travellers S2)]; reverted your extension's default.css to standard [which natch then made the last-edit info vamoose again], then added your code to my Stable's Stylus css that i use for the V forum, & the desired info appeared again... nice! Tomorrow i shall mimic this in SS.

Ta heaps! Btw, your memory is impressive.

[Steffie]

@steffie said in Vivaldi Forum mod:

Tomorrow i shall mimic this in SS.

So much for that plan... i've now also done SS tonight too, given the damn thing kept crashing every time i closed my single-tab 2nd window [= the Stylus edit page]. So now both browsers are back to std version of your extension, with my Stylus V sheet modded, hence now i eat cake. Teehee.

[luetage]

Version 1.34

Changes since 1.31:

• Bugfix for the bookmarking feature (in rare cases overwrote other menu entries)
• Additional font-icon change for nested quotes
• Custom notification icons alignment fix on notifications page
• Feature request and default button spacing improvement
• Custom themes: added table coloring, removed styling for special tags, standard background and hover coloring for default buttons, changes to settings, search and notifications page.

The update went live yesterday, therefore everyone should have received it by now.

Bonus: m_o_r.json [download]

[Morg42]

@luetage : as the question popped up in another topic:

Wouldn't providing a direct link to the "own forum profile edit page" (profile url + "/edit") make another nice feature in the forum mod? e.g. by adding a link in the profile menu which opens when clicking on your account symbol top right?

[luetage]

@morg42 Yeah, why not. I thought about putting this link up on extension release, but I was unsure and forgot about it later on. Consider it done.

[luetage]

Which brings us to

version 1.36

• New "Hidden Edit" link in avatar dropdown menu
• Fixing an issue where all dropdown text is selected on opening a dropdown.
• Default custom theme changed to Solarized Light.

[hlehyaric]

@luetage Thanks again. The «Hidden edit» feature is a very welcome one.

[luetage]

@hlehyaric I don't know if Hidden edit is a fitting name for this. I'm open to suggestions. We can change this any time. The font-icons will be changed too in next version.

[JuniorSilva30]

Very good! Honestly I had not seen this post before! Thank you!

[Hadden89]

@luetage said in Vivaldi Forum mod:

I'm open to suggestions.

Legacy edit, more edits or edit+?