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Harald Hanche-Olsen comments on "Change the color of "new" topics on meta." (7614)

Harald Hanche-Olsen — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:08:30 -0700

Heh. Yeah, I never looked at the css file itself; I looked at firebug's (uncompressed!) rendering of it.

Andrew Stacey comments on "Change the color of "new" topics on meta." (7611)

Andrew Stacey — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 13:38:23 -0700

Word of warning: the default css file is compressed, meaning that all unnecessary white-space has been removed making it pretty unreadable. Assuming (as I think is correct) that you are using the default style in the default theme then you want to look at:

themes/vanilla/styles/default/vanilla.css

There's an uncompressed version at:

themes/vanilla/styles/default/src/vanilla.css

You could look at the uncompressed version, figure out what change to make (Harald's right, by the way), and then try to find the right place in the compressed version. Or you could change the uncompressed version and compress it, replacing the compressed version. Or you could just replace the compressed version by the uncompressed version and change that. The difference on my system is 7k, or about 1/3rd of the compressed version.

Harald Hanche-Olsen comments on "Change the color of "new" topics on meta." (7583)

Harald Hanche-Olsen — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 00:53:50 -0700

@Scott: These lines in vanilla.css seem relevant:

.NoNewComments, #Discussions li.Read ul {
background-color:#FFFEEC !important;
}
.NewComments, #Discussions li.Read.NewComments ul {
background-color:#FEFECC !important;
}

Scott Morrison comments on "Change the color of "new" topics on meta." (7580)

Scott Morrison — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 22:02:32 -0700

I'll happily change it if we can resolve the pink/yellow confusion going on here (and will actually, definitely change it if someone tells me exactly which file in the Vanilla installation to tweak).

Scott Morrison comments on "Change the color of "new" topics on meta." (7579)

Scott Morrison — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 22:01:13 -0700

Weird, I see two easily distinguishable shades of yellow!

Andrew Stacey comments on "Change the color of "new" topics on meta." (7536)

Andrew Stacey — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:45:48 -0700

Enter the Stylish firefox extension ...

Qiaochu Yuan comments on "Change the color of "new" topics on meta." (7532)

Qiaochu Yuan — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:04:38 -0700

I use a laptop, and it can be hard to see if the angle of the laptop is off. I would also appreciate a darker color; maybe an orange.

Harald Hanche-Olsen comments on "Change the color of "new" topics on meta." (7527)

Harald Hanche-Olsen — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 11:44:08 -0700

Pink? Looks yellow to me. It should be #FEFECC if I read the CSS correctly; that is a light yellow. Maybe you need to calibrate your monitor (or perhaps your eyes). Anyhow, making it a tad darker wouldn't hurt. I have no difficulty seeing the colour myself, but I can easily imagine it being difficult if your screen calibration is off.

Harry Gindi comments on "Change the color of "new" topics on meta." (7524)

Harry Gindi — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 05:19:52 -0700

Meanwhile, our meta is a hundred times more useful than the SE2.0 meta.

danseetea comments on "Change the color of "new" topics on meta." (7523)

danseetea — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 05:16:00 -0700

(Shouldn't this be in meta.meta.mathoverflow.net?)

I agree.

Andrea comments on "Change the color of "new" topics on meta." (7522)

Andrea — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 05:00:02 -0700

+1 :-)

Harry Gindi comments on "Change the color of "new" topics on meta." (7519)

Harry Gindi — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 04:02:42 -0700

Currently, topics with new posts are shown at a very very light pink. However, it often blends into the background, and the only way I can tell there are new posts is to look at the post count of the thread (which appears red). Is there any chance we could use a slightly darker shade of color for new posts?