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nolanlawson / pinafore

Alternative web client for Mastodon (UNMAINTAINED)
https://pinafore.social
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Better preview for themes #578

Open sorin-davidoi opened 6 years ago

sorin-davidoi commented 6 years ago

It's hard to know what to expect from a theme based just on the color next to its name: is that the background color, the accent color or something else?

Would be nice if there was a richer preview, like in the right side of the attached image (which is taken from https://blog.doist.com/introducing-dark-theme-for-todoist-4ad82e9d4792).

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sorin-davidoi commented 5 years ago

An even better example is https://color.firefox.com (select "Preset themes").

nolanlawson commented 5 years ago

Hmmm given that you can tap a theme and instantly see it applied, is this really necessary? I suppose we could include a preview of what a status would look like in each theme, but I doubt it would fit well on mobile given the single-column format...

sorin-davidoi commented 5 years ago

Hmmm given that you can tap a theme and instantly see it applied, is this really necessary?

Given that there are ~15 themes I think taping on each of them to see the preview is not a nice experience.

I suppose we could include a preview of what a status would look like in each theme

I think showing the color of the header and that of the background would be enough.

nolanlawson commented 5 years ago

Ah gotcha, so a small inline preview then. I misunderstood, but yeah that sounds like a good idea!