Custom reading list colors

ETA: Posted! http://dw-nifty.dreamwidth.org/4374.html (with minor edits, including removing exclamation points *g*)


So many people do not know that Dreamwidth has had custom reading list colors for a long time now!

Putting up a draft entry, shall polish and post to dw_nifty or dw_styles (but I think I may need to do a "here's how to create and start editing your theme layer" first, which I keep putting off)

Enable the custom reading list colors defined by your style

Custom reading list colors are disabled by default, so you'll need to enable it, but it is available for all styles (with the exception of Zesty).

Go to Customize Journal Style, under "Additional Options" select "Use my custom reading list colors"

Most styles implement it as a border around the userpic. However, some styles, such as Negatives, have implemented it as part of the entry border. If you don't like where your style puts the custom colors, you can also customize them by setting some variables in the advanced customization area.

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Creating and customizing a theme layer

Edited slightly, and posted to http://dw-styles.dreamwidth.org/13219.html


The basic settings to customize your theme can be accessed and modified via the Customize Journal Style page. However, if you're doing something more complicated, you may need to modify code snippets or manually set some variables. For these, you will need to know how to create a theme layer and attach it to your style.

First of all, a quick rundown of terms:

A style is what is applied to your journal, and it is made up of several layers. A layout layer is the basic structure or framework of the style. Customizations via the Customize Journal Style page will be saved as auto-generated customizations in a user layer. Any other modifications you make, you should do in a theme layer. A theme layer can contain system-provided default color settings; it can also contain any additional advanced customizations you wish to apply to your journal.

Technically, you can just modify a user layer, and it seems easier to do that, because it's already been created for you and you can skip the few steps required to create and attach a new theme layer to your style. However, this is a bad idea, because hand-edited changes to a user layer may be erased the next time you use the wizard. To be safe, always create a separate theme layer if you need to edit something manually.

(!! the links will work from single entry-view; they'll also work from read page, etc, when I post the final entry)

• Find your current style information
  
• Create a new theme layer
  
• Copy existing theme layer settings to your new theme layer
  
• Apply the new theme layer to your style
  
• Tips
  

( on with the tutorial )

For the record, I now hate the advanced customization area and want it to die die die :-) Setting things up is way more complicated than it should be

A day's worth of Twitter ($20.00)

00:47:14	—	@gils9965 eeek and I totally mistweeted your name. and the twitter cynic replied to me *G*
01:18:34	—	@gils9965 maybe! but your icon is cuter (also angrier :-p)
01:19:59	—	caved and bought the 4pc 6mm DPN set I have been eyeing. not sure what I will do with it
02:24:11	—	just found daily vim (as in text editor) http://dailyvim.blogspot.com/
02:56:30	—	aha, this command to look for all mysql tables with a column of a certain name could be useful: http://bit.ly/8l0sBg
03:04:03	—	512 * 0.80
03:05:00	—	ctrl+x, ctrl+e in bash to open up a text editor :)
03:06:09	—	lalala commenting out a line range (I think I can remember this. hmm http://dailyvim.blogspot.com/2008/06/comment-out-line-range.html)
03:08:50	—	star key in vim to jump to the next word under your cursor!
03:12:41	—	aaaaaand I finally found out what keeps toggling ex-mode.
03:13:34	—	and ctrl-n to autocomplete. HELLO. I think I finally know how to use vim. a tiny bit. possibly? maybe?
03:18:41	—	entry on using vim effectively: http://dailyvim.blogspot.com/2008/04/using-vim-effectively.html (and now I go to bed)
10:04:25	—	*twitch* trying to figure out facebook. I can't figure out which section I should be looking at *twitch twitch*
10:05:17	—	oh FOUND IT. was hidden behind a link *twitch twitch*
10:08:16	—	@jurispretense \o/ well worth the effort, IMO :)
10:15:12	—	oooh semagic supports dreamwidth now?
10:23:27	—	@RebelsHeart oh neat. I just saw an entry stating that they'd just added DW to the server dropdown, so I thought official support was new
14:22:05	—	hmmm, do I want to learn how to crochet? *eyes yarn*
16:43:09	—	the steps to create a new theme layer are making me twitchy. I wonder how we can streamline the process?
18:08:36	—	@yatii the one I just wrote nearly made me cry ;_; "first do this. oh then backtrack to this. then jump to that." EEEEK

Total: 20 tweets

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