Forum:Skins again

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I must say that I am dissastisfied with the skins which are currently available. This new QuartzSlate definitely looks better than Monobook, but it nevertheless has some disadvantages. My favourite skin would (maybe) be CologneBlue, but it suffers from 4 faults:

1) Era logos are invisible

2) Editing toolbar does not appear while editing, despite that it is checked in the preferences

3) Lengthy infoboxes tend to overlap with the article text (just see Millennium Falcon in CologneBlue)

4) There is no "Interaction" box in the sidebar

Nevertheless, it also has advantages, mainly:

- font type is more easily readable than the standard Arial-like one

- the article itself has by far the most space on the screen among all skins

The problems with Quartzslate are:

- sidebar is too wide, article is too narrow

- font type (for me at least)

- editing by double-click and section-editing by right-clicking on section title is impossible, even when these options are checked

So I have a suggestion with 2 possibilities for making new skins or modifying the existing ones:

1) Eliminate the faults from CologneBlue and it will be almost perfect (for me at least)

2) Merge the two skins in some way, or just at least make the sidebar narrower in QuartzSlate

These are my suggestions and only personal opinions. Feel free to suggest more and I am eagerly awaiting reactions from those who are adept or (let's say) in charge at/with skin-making (which I am, unfortunately not). Domlith 11:25, 22 September 2007 (UTC)