I’ve gone through and made text larger and removed just about anything redundant (and anything that I don’t use regularly). For example, I know that suggested topics are suggested topics, so I removed the header. I’ve used bulk select on the topic list maybe twice ever, so it’s gone. Views on the topic list? gone. Categories in the hamburger menu? gone.
You get the idea, here’s the theme.
For extra minimalness, I recommend using the Categories Only layout for the category page.
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I’m LOVING this theme, especially the topic list, amazing work
A couple of tiny issues in PM’s, a missing icon:
and I feel like the small size of the assigned text makes it hard to read, because the text has been made larger for just about everything else (Header, Suggested messages etc.)
One of my users is reporting the Minima theme (which I love very much) does not show the “Dismiss” button when there are unread messages. He verified that Dismiss wasn’t just disappearing because there were no unreads - he said he switched to Minima and back from another theme while showing unreads and the button did not show up.
Is there a setting I might be missing on this, or anything else I should check? Thanks!
I am following the guide on creating Themes (Developer’s guide to Discourse Themes) and it says that to change the templates (like removing the avatars in the listing), you need to touch the .hbr files in Discourse core.
Did you have to do this to remove the avatars? I am a bit confused as to how this theme works and how to use it.
As an example, in the Minima theme, how would I change the look and feel of the Profile page of each user?
It depends on what you’d like to change. If you want to remove or restyle content, it’s likely you can do it with some additional CSS. If you’d like to add information or change the layout dramatically, then you’d need to edit template files.
If you’d like to use the Minima theme and add additional customizations, I’d recommend installing Minima and adding your customizations to it by creating a new theme component. This way you can still get updates to Minima without worrying about your changes being overridden.
I have a follow-up on the same topic. When Discourse is updated and I need to update the software (assuming I am self-hosting), will this cause problems with themes where the templates have been modified? Or are they not dependent?
Have you experienced anything like this in the past?
Yes I understand that. I found the code I quoted by inspecting the avatar. What I’m confused about is where the code comes from. It’s present in Minima, yet nonexistent (not just hidden in CSS) in the Light theme for example. What’s generating the HTML?
I see that you have deliberately removed the “suggested topics” header but is there a way I can add it back? Many of my readers’ first experience of discourse will be via the comments section of my blog and they may not appreciate what this list is.
Germany might be the richest country in the world by the end of the year
I’ve just made an update that adds a little bit of sidebar and chat styles and also includes the fonts as theme assets, so it’s all local now, no more requests to Google
Germany isn’t that much behind California, and totally without Silicon Valley.
But such court cases aren’t that common in Germany either. It is part of acts against huge corporations, and because of that limitations will increase. EU has quite different direction than USA has.
That means we need two options:
the base must be builded without Google etc (hate to say it, but without need to use tech where data will be transferred to Russia, China and USA)
there can and quite often must be an option to use what big corporations offer, but users must have tools to be anonymized
menu listing all the other themes seems odd to me, though.
