Great idea peregrine !

vrijvlinder

Once again you have come up with a marvelous Plugin yay to the plugin king! it works but has a bug not sure how to fix it. I added the css and all correctly and it displayed correctly, however when I went to visit site , the page loaded half way and I clicked dashboard to go back but stayed on the same page and noticed that the url said I was in the dashboard but the dashboard was gone. I could not get back in so I had to delete the plugin for now until we can figure what I am doing wrong...But I really really really love this plugin idea very much and thank you for coming up with it !

peregrine

1) Does it work correctly before you added your custom css?
I believe so.

2) If so, I suspect it is a problem with your site and/or your customadmin.css.
It works fine for me. So, until you attach your css for viewing we will never know, will we.

phreak

Yay, great for doing an alternative to the sugar-candy Vanilla backend. Also it might open the possibility to create a mobile version as well, not?

Thanx @peregrine!

vrijvlinder

It works now, yes I am using my css, it must have been a freak occurrence . I was too sleepy last night to mess around with it, but after reinstalling the plugin it seems to work fine. I am going to attach some css for viewing or if people want to use it in a few .

Thanks again peregrine !! you rock

vrijvlinder

Here is my dark dash customadmin.css feel free to use it change it anyway you want.
you can copy the file from here:

http://ubuntuone.com/5Rh9G5VrND4uKyIdrUHh2g

vrijvlinder

remember people to also copy the images for the admin into the plugin in a new folder called images...

peregrine

@vrijvlinder

nice look that one you posted.

if you do two more admin theme css's (maybe one light one) and post them in the same manner. I can include them in the plugin. If so, I'll put you in as illustrator.

vrijvlinder

sure you got it ! I will have it by tonight or tomorrow.

peregrine

no rush - just test them first.

peregrine

@phreak said:
Yay, great for doing an alternative to the sugar-candy Vanilla backend. Also it might open the possibility to create a mobile version as well, not?

Thanx peregrine!

I have a mobile theme switcher in the works. If @vrijvlinder wants to post some mobile.css.

This is dependent on vrijvlinder since anyone who has modified their mobile themes or even regular themes, asked for feedback and questions and not posted add-on themes, doesn't know the meaning of giving back to the community. I won't rail (or maybe I will) on the people who still don't know how to click on the "awesome" or "insightful", maybe it's just to hard for them. Not to mention the people who mostly take without giving on the forum, who learn something on the forum, and can't type a few words of instruction on the wiki.

http://vanillawiki.homebrewforums.net/index.php/Main_Page

I find it enjoyable to provide what help and plugins that I can, but the above paragraph contains a few reasons, why my interest is flagging - take and run, or take and stay but lack of the above, (cutting and pasting to the wiki - couldn't be too onerous as reciprocation for help received on the forum). A person who is a member of the forum for several years and not providing any of the above - add-ons, themes, help, adding to wiki, learning to use "click on the "awesome" or "insightful", just ain't doing there fair share here.

BTW phreak - this is not pointed at you, if none of it applies to you, only to the people who it does apply to, and if they don't know who they are, well ...

And the most ironic thing of all, is some of the people who want the Badges and Reactions don't use click on the various reactions on this very forum where there is an opportunity to do so.

vrijvlinder

Yes of course and I would love to post some mobile.css , I do have a mobile theme submitted if you wish to play with it.

http://vanillaforums.org/addon/mobile-theme

vrijvlinder

And the most ironic thing of all, is some of the people who want the Badges and Reactions don't use click on the various reactions on this very forum where there is an opportunity to do so.

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I can see a long time user fail to react on purpose, that kind of sucks, but a new person? could it be they are unaware of the buttons because you must hover to see them ?
I'd hate to think people are selfish or intentionally not giving a reaction...It took me a while to figure those out, maybe I one could add a tag line " Don't forget to react, hover below the comment and select your choice" .

vrijvlinder

@peregrine and @phreak Here is a new theme I made for the dashboard in shades of grape , I do love purple tones !! I hope you like it

you can download it here:

http://ubuntuone.com/3ErcDC5Ppf5VayMsfXj2Ux

vrijvlinder

Screenshots below:

vrijvlinder

peregrine

thx. I'll incorporate it in the next update if I can upload it. Otherwise, there is a central spot here.

BTW - what's your intention on the dark dash

dashboard-bg.png

if it correctly reads this I believe it is reading the standard blue do you have a different one in mind.

vrijvlinder

oh yea I altered that pic to be gray on the dark dash sorry let me upload the grey one ...I missed that sorry.. here is direct link to the image if you could be kind enough to switch it out. I edited the one I linked up:
dark dash customadmin.css

http://ubuntuone.com/5Rh9G5VrND4uKyIdrUHh2g

http://i50.tinypic.com/ru4pqt.png

vrijvlinder

screenshot of dark dash:

peregrine

thx vrijvlinder.

I consider this plugin finished as far as I am concerned. I added your theme css to the plugin and if anyone wants to post more in this thread they can follow what you did.

over and out for this plugin.

vrijvlinder

Thanks for making it, this page can serve as a css depository for the dashboard themes...I was going to make one more using greens already have it in my head lol !

peregrine

@vrijvlinder

I added part of your mobile standalone theme ( http://vanillaforums.org/addon/mobile-theme ) to the "sister" plugin theme switcher for mobile devices.
the theme switcher plugin available
here ( http://vanillaforums.org/addon/mobilethemeswitcher-plugin )

I consider both of them completed as far as I am concerned. People can add stylesheets on the mobilethemeswitcher-plugin if they want under a thread
here ( http://vanillaforums.org/addon/mobilethemeswitcher-plugin )