Comments on: Theme platform support

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:54:59 +0000

Awesome, might check it out then. I know what you mean too, before I owned my Macbook, I was like “so what if there isn’t a mac version?” for software I used

How I lamented that when I did get one and even OpenOffice lacked a version for it. Having the Firefox guys make platform specific nonsense is bemusing too, sigh.

By: Arvid

Arvid — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 02:35:55 +0000

Andrew: It’s basically that for native themes, you now have to make a separate theme based on the default of that platform. Shouldn’t be very difficult in itself but I can’t test anything. And then it’s another burden to keep updated.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 20:26:11 +0000

Hmm, damn, shame it’s so crappy. I really, really absolutely hate the default Mac OS theme. I’ve installed a version of Qute and am coping without scroll bars, frankly because the Mac thing is so goddamn awful.

Man, it totally sucks. I might well look into theming Qute back onto it if I had more knowledge on where to start, just a shame you couldn’t solve the problems easily.

Any more info on the future problems/issues? If I or anyone else looks into it, I presume it’s got deeper underlying “buggers up themes which works fine on windows” then we all know about.

By: jessica

jessica — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:15:20 +0000

hey
i have a good idea.
there are a lot of manga fans in the world.
If you make those icons as the image of those manga or comic images ,
let them make the Firefox more their own style ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
am i smart ?
hahahahahah
i think firefox should thanks me for the suggestion
hihi
can you write more on the blog ,by the way .it is all about PC and design .
Can you write something like the flower and birds you met on the way home ?
something like that
hihi ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

By: A Nony Mouse

A Nony Mouse — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:16:16 +0000

I’m quite disappointed that these wonderful themes are no longer officially available for linux. Mozilla really dropped the ball with their “native” theme which is beyond nauseating. To have made it so difficult for an experienced theme developer such as yourself to maintain a working theme across all OSs is just a shame.

By: Aps

Aps — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:39:56 +0000

could you ask someone ( not me ) to assist you with Linux version?
may be someone from community can help with linux version of Kempelton…

By: Rod

Rod — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:04:59 +0000

Very nice! Your hard work definitely shows as this theme looks great.

It works on Ubuntu 8.04 quite well BTW. Only two issues that I’ve noticed, and these seem common to all FF3 themes I’ve tried other than the default:
- top level menu label disappears when the menu is highlighted (text colour matches background colour)
- arrows in menus are quite large (i.e. multi-level context menus, or for folders in bookmarks).

Nothing big enough to prevent me from using this excellent theme.

Hopefully the add-ons area allows multi-platform selection (rather than just single or “all”). With it marked as Windows only, the add-ons manager doesn’t notice/find your updates. Not your problem though.

Thanks again!

By: Henry

Henry — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:18:03 +0000

Hey, thank you for the update. I enjoy the two themes on XP.

By: kf

kf — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 03:49:13 +0000

Updated to Kempelton 3.0.3, but it seems that the spinning activity indicator vanishes when spinning!

It will only come back when the page fully loaded and stops.