Linklist 1.0

mgroeninger · Post by **mgroeninger** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 5:29 pm

I seem to get some changes to your layout when I remove

font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

from the "div.linklist li.menuitem" portion...

if I do that, it seems about right... I even added

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     font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;

to the "div.linklist" entry but it didn't seem to affect it.

Again, I'm no good with fonts, so I might not be seeing the problem...

PerfectCr · Post by **PerfectCr** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 6:01 pm

oxygenws wrote:i think its because of your cache...
try CTRL+R or CTRL+F5

nope. But thanks. You can easily see right now that it is not veranda.

PerfectCr · Post by **PerfectCr** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 6:04 pm

mgroeninger wrote:I seem to get some changes to your layout when I remove
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font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
from the "div.linklist li.menuitem" portion...

if I do that, it seems about right... I even added
Code: Select all
     font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
to the "div.linklist" entry but it didn't seem to affect it.

Again, I'm no good with fonts, so I might not be seeing the problem...

How were you able to edit my .css file? Don't you have to have access to my FTP for that?

mgroeninger · Post by **mgroeninger** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 6:15 pm

I was using the EditCSS 0.3.3 plugin for Firefox... it allows the dynamic application of local CSS changes to any website.

Yes, to actually change the site I would need FTP access (please don't offer that to me... too much responsibility *grin*)...

(This next part may sound like I am being defensive. I am. I don't mean any offense by it. I am just touchy when people imply I might have possibly done something bad. It has nothing to do with you, PerfectCr. It has everything to do with the idiot who will only read part of the post and assumed I am some kind of miscreant and that I made changes to your site without your permission.)

So... To clearify, I did not make any changes to you machine, your server, or your site. I cannot and do not wish to make any such changes... I made changes to a local copy of the css file and applied those changes to the site so that I had some idea of what was going on.

PerfectCr · Post by **PerfectCr** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 6:17 pm

Sorry I didn't even know you could do that locally

I am still messing with it, Thanks!

mgroeninger · Post by **mgroeninger** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 6:22 pm

No problem...

If you use Firefox you should look at the EditCSS plugin or the Web Developer plugin. They both allow you too see the CSS in a sidebar and to edit it dynamically. You can't make permenant changes using them, but it helps a lot of layout issues... (Web developer has a whole bunch of other stuff too!)

PerfectCr · Post by **PerfectCr** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 6:33 pm

Cool! Does anyone know the default fonts for the Chalkboard template for the Categories and Archives text or how I could find it? I am trying to get it to match my HTML sidebar nuggets and not having luck. I thought it was verdana but I guess I am "font blind" too!

oxygenws · Post by **oxygenws** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 7:02 am

nope. But thanks. You can easily see right now that it is not veranda.

i didn't (and don't!) see any different fonts in your site, in link, but i saw different color for your linklist a.hover action.

you can fix that here:
div.linklist a:hover

regards.

PerfectCr · Post by **PerfectCr** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 2:00 pm

oxygenws wrote:
nope. But thanks. You can easily see right now that it is not veranda.
i didn't (and don't!) see any different fonts in your site, in link, but i saw different color for your linklist a.hover action.

you can fix that here:
div.linklist a:hover

regards.

Yes I was finally able to change to veranda

I will check that hover thing out. Thanks!

Josh · Post by **Josh** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 2:03 pm

I saw that you have version 1.6 out:
http://netmirror.org/mirror/serendipity ... nklist.php

but I don't know how to install plugins from there.

Would it be possible to put the new version in the CVS so that it is easier to install? Currently the CVS has version 1.3

mgroeninger · Post by **mgroeninger** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 6:22 pm

So far as I can tell (I am away from my machine right now.. so no CVS client access), that is the most recent version of plugin_linklist, which is in CVS... I think the netmirror stuff all comes directly from CVS (as part of the Spartucus project).

When I head here:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/p ... _linklist/

I see the plugin_linklist as being at version 1.6 (which is what the one you pointed me to has) and the event_linklist being at version 1.4...

So, you should be able to update your plugins using spartucus (just remember to update both the sidebar plugin and the event plugin)...

Or, if you are using a CVS client, I wouldn't think you would have any trouble pulling the most recent files... (like I said, I can't check at the moment... sorry... post if you are still having problems and I will try to look at it this evening...)

Josh · Post by **Josh** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 8:08 pm

Thank you Matthew,

I have installed the link list by going to Admin Suite and then "configure plugins". I installed both the sidebar and the event plugin. Both are version 1.3

Do I need a newer version? How do I get it?

The way it is now, Link List seems to work fine, but I am sure you had a reason for releasing 1.6 /1.4...

UPDATE: Is it possible to change the indentation in the new version? IMHO the indentation is quite strong and the size of the fonts is a bit small. But, of course that's just my perception.

Is "Description of Link" supposed to give the user a description of the blog, when they do a "mouse over" at the link? (Sorry, probably wrong term) It does not do that on my blog.

mgroeninger · Post by **mgroeninger** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 2:37 am

Does your "update" to your post above mean you were able to get the most recent version? I am assuming so...

Since you were previously running version 1.3 of the sidebar plugin you do see some changes in the display. If you want to it be identical in output to the previous version, you can just use the dtree option in the configuration.

If you like the CSS output (I think that is what you are using on your site) you can change the indentation by editing the empty.gif in the "img" folder. It is used to indent so that the css behaves as closely as possible to the dtree method... you can just edit it to be smaller with any gif editor... I think the default file is 18 pixels wide... so the first submenu would be indented 36 pixels.

To change the size off the font you can edit the "linklist.css" file (again, if you are not using the dtree option, otherwise it is the "dtree.css" file)...

As for "Description of Link", you have a really good idea, but unfortunately the field is just not used right now... I would have to rework the xml structure to include the description, and I just haven't had time...

If anyone really wants to take a shot at it, I was going to explore using opml rather than the generic style xml it uses now...

Josh · Post by **Josh** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 8:02 am

Matthew,

thanks again for your help!

mgroeninger wrote:Does your "update" to your post above mean you were able to get the most recent version? I am assuming so...

No. I just wanted to say: The version 1.3, that I installed, works correctly as far as I can tell. It would just be nice to change a few things.

Since you were previously running version 1.3 of the sidebar plugin you do see some changes in the display.

No, I did not use Link List before.

Thank you for the info on changing indentation and layout. I don't have any experience with changing any of the files, but I will try.

I am basically very happy with the wonderful plugin that you created. Thank you. I am just confused why Spartacus/CVS let me to install the 1.3 version rather than the new version. And I wonder what is different in the new version.

I apologize for the misunderstanding. Thank you.

mgroeninger · Post by **mgroeninger** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 4:59 pm

No need to apologize! I am glad you enjoy the plugin!

So, you still seemed to be unable to install the most recent version of the plugin through Spartacus?

When you go to "Configure Plugins" you should have two entries for the linklist plugins, one under the "Sidebar Plugins" section and one under the "Event Plugins" section... Do they both say they are 1.3? (I think that is what you said before, but I want to make sure...)

And when you go into Spartacus to update them they simply say they are already installed? No red icon showing an update? What version of Spartacus are you running?

Garvin, any thoughts?

Linklist 1.0

Please update CVS