Moodle in English: Elegance Theme Released

Elegance Logo After lots of hard work I am happy to say that Elegance is finally ready for release.

This is my follow up theme to Essential and I hope you like it. Just like Essential, it aims to bring a modern and clean look to Moodle while also allowing for a large degree of customisation.

You can grab it from the plugins DB here: https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=theme_elegance (now approved)

Or you can grab it directly from GitHub here: http://github.com/moodleman/moodle-theme_elegance

You can see it in action here: http://2014.imoot.org

I hope to have a walkthrough video uploaded very soon.

What is Elegance?

Elegance is a 2 column, clean and highly customisable theme built on the Bootstrap 3 framework. Like Essential before it, it is full of a wide range of settings to allow you to customise the theme to meet your exact needs.

This theme IS NOT using the Bootstrap base theme in Moodle. Instead it is using a newly created Bootstrap3 framework created by Bas Brands. While I hope Bootstrap3 will make it into Moodle core soon, for this theme I just could not wait!

Some of the highlights include:

Customisable User Menu. You can set which links appear and even add your own for services like Webmail. Also note that Messages also show in the header.

User Menu

You can set the transparency level for some fantastic effects while using background images

Transparency

The MyPage has been customised to be more visual (assuming you are using the new Course Files feature in course settings)

MyMoodle

The theme now has a loading indicator so you know when the page has finished loading.

The frontage has a wealth of options including sliders, marketing spots and Quick Links section. Even a place to add your own block in the middle.

iMoot Sample

A gorgeous login screen that allows for a single or a dynamic slideshow of background images
New way of displaying course resources and files. I like to call it "course tiles"

Course Tiles

Social Networking built right in.

I could go on......but I won't. You have to explore yourself. Let's just say there should be enough settings for your every need.

Settings

I hope you enjoy this release and look forward to your comments and feedback below.

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Julian Ridden發表於2014年 02月 20日(週四) 22:24

To really show how dynamic this theme is I have included a screenshot below of my test site after I have just made a few theme settings changes.

I always wanted to make a "Wood" theme for Moodle 2.6. Wood was the first theme I ever used back in 1.6 and therefore has fond memories for me. So here is my homage to that quintessential theme of plywood. This is the same code as what is powering the http://2014.imoot.org site. Looks very different doesn't it?

Wood

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Gareth J Barnard發表於2014年 02月 20日(週四) 22:32

Looks very slick Julian and demonstrates what can be done with Bootstrap 3. Why is there two 'Turn editing on' buttons?

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Julian Ridden發表於2014年 02月 20日(週四) 22:46

Simple answer: Silly oversight.

Already fixed in Github and awaiting the approval in plugins DB with updated code as well.

Julian

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Jean-Marc Doucet發表於2014年 02月 27日(週四) 00:48

Hi Julian,

once you spoil us with this beautiful theme.

Last year it was 'Essential' and now 'Elegance' clap-clap

it looks like to name French perfume I love your French touch

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Julian Ridden發表於2014年 02月 27日(週四) 03:34

Thanks for the feedback. Glad you like it.

Should have a new version out shortly with some minor bug fixes too.

Julian

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Hartmut Scherer發表於2014年 03月 2日(週日) 23:56

Hi Julian,

The category headings in simple and full view of the grader report are quite large and the colors for the categories, which are visible in Standard theme, got lost in Elegance.

With kind regards,

Hartmut

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Sebastián Pizarro Cortés發表於2014年 04月 29日(週二) 06:34

Thanks for all Julian Ridden...

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Sebastián Pizarro Cortés發表於2014年 05月 2日(週五) 01:35

Dears I want know how I can includes this different elements that show in the following image. This modules are marks with red lines.

Regards

Sebastián.

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Richard Oelmann發表於2014年 05月 2日(週五) 02:48

The top one is the custom menu bar - you set it (as in all other themes) in the Administration > Site Administration > Appearance > Themes > Theme Settings page

The lower one is just a block area - add the block you want to your page, html, rss, latest news, calendar or whatever other block you want, and then drag it into that space.

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Kingsley Imade發表於2014年 06月 10日(週二) 19:49

Dear Julian

Thank for such a wonderful theme.

Please how do i replicate/modify the following blocks or menu below the slideshow from your demo.

see attached

Thanks for your response

Image1.png

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Frances Angulo發表於2014年 06月 21日(週六) 03:56

Any way to address this overflow of response length in drop downs for quizzes?

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Mary Evans發表於2014年 06月 21日(週六) 04:39

Try testing that page using another theme. I have a feeling it is Moodle wide and nothing to do with the theme.

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Frances Angulo發表於2014年 06月 22日(週日) 06:19

Thanks for the suggestion!

Issue does not persist in the Archaus theme:

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Mary Evans發表於2014年 06月 22日(週日) 07:42

In the Elegance theme I see that you have the side blocks on the right. Are there any side blocks on the right actually present? Or is it an empty page?

I am only asking as that side block area is not present in the Archaus theme.

If there are no sideblocks then this is becasue the CSS is missing for when a side block region exists but is empty. If it is full then the size of the main area is approx 77% and side blocks 23% whereas if the sideblock is empty then the layout needs to be 100%.

It looks like this is what is causing this problem.

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Gareth J Barnard發表於2014年 02月 20日(週四) 22:25

In light of this good news, I'll release an update to the Collapsed Topics and Columns formats as soon as possible after testing as the current released versions will not work with Elegance.

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Gareth J Barnard發表於2014年 02月 21日(週五) 01:08

Collapsed Topics and Columns course formats updated to work with the Elegance theme -> https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=254799.

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Mary Evans發表於2014年 02月 27日(週四) 16:47

Hi Gareth,

I have been meaning to ask this for ages...

Why is it that you need to update your course formats to fit in with a new theme?

Thanks

Mary

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Gareth J Barnard發表於2014年 02月 27日(週四) 21:28

Hi Mary,

RE: Why is it that you need to update your course formats to fit in with a new theme?

Because Elegance has its own version of the section page when you view a course in 'One section per page'.

Elegance overrides the 'print_single_section_page' method in 'course/format/renderer.php' -> https://github.com/moodleman/moodle-theme_elegance/blob/master/renderers/core_renderer.php#L729. And was the the first theme to do this. As my formats have settings they needed to be loaded privately in the constructor https://github.com/gjb2048/moodle-format_topcoll/blob/MOODLE_26/renderer.php#L62 instead of the 'print_multiple_section_page' method etc. As when they where a coding fault was detected as the settings were null. As they were 'private' I could not make a call in the 'Elegance' theme to rectify the issue. So came up with a solution in the course format instead. Hence the update.

Original description on https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=251492#p1095540.

All very complex for what is in fact a one line solution.

Gareth

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由David Scotson發表於2014年 02月 21日(週五) 00:18

Looks beautiful!

Are you planning to keep up to date with Bas's improvements? I'd like to make use of both his Bootstrap 3 stuff and your customisation options, so it would be easier for me if I could just direct the changes to the relevant place rather than duplicate them.

Talking of which, do you have a preferred venue for bug reports? You've got a github but I think you had a place in Jira for Essential?

Here's one while I'm here, the front page appears to be missing a .row to contain the two grid columns. But it's present elsewhere, e.g. inside a course. I thought this was the cause of some oddness when the responsiveness kicks in but I think it's actually more to do with the white background colour being attached to the grid column rather than a div within it. This means the left and right padding are different between the div#main-region and the aside#block-region-side-post, the latter applies the background color to the div.blocks within the grid column so you still get the padding either side on phones.

In the same area on the front page you have two div#page-contents as well.

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Julian Ridden發表於2014年 02月 21日(週五) 05:48

Thanks for picking up on that David. Now rectified in the github.

Julian

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Richard Oelmann發表於2014年 02月 21日(週五) 00:33

Loving the new theme Julian!

Really exciting what you have done with this and Essential, last year.

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Gareth J Barnard發表於2014年 02月 21日(週五) 00:33

Hi Julian,

I updated my fork to version 2014022000, went through Notifications on my own theme to update, then switched to theme and got:

Notice: Undefined property: stdClass::$usermenulinks inF:\moodledev\moodle26\moodle\theme\elegance\renderers\core_renderer.php on line 274.

On the theme selector page.

Cheers,

Gareth

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Julian Ridden發表於2014年 02月 21日(週五) 05:37

Thanks for the report Gareth,

Yes, that one slipped past me. I have updated the github with a fix now.

Julian

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Danny Wahl發表於2014年 02月 21日(週五) 08:26

This is a gorgeous theme!

I've found a couple of issues on the theme on the iMoot website:

iPad portrait the menu toggle button doesn't appear so you can't access the menu
resizing the window (or rotation from portrait to landscape) doesn't resize the slideshow properly

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Martin Dougiamas發表於2014年 02月 21日(週五) 12:39

Not wanting to dampen your enthusiasm for the pretty work here but by not basing it on the Bootstrapbase theme in Moodle (which is the one all core and plugin developers are building for and testing with) you are running the risk of many more visual bugs cropping up around the place.

This may increase your support load for this theme.

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Julian Ridden發表於2014年 02月 21日(週五) 13:14

I am hoping, now that Bootstrap 2 is unsupported, that moodle will find a way of integrating Bootstrap three by version 2.8.

I am already building and testing for 2.6 and 2.7 as it is shaping up in the meantime.

Julian

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Martin Dougiamas發表於2014年 02月 21日(週五) 15:30

I'm sure Bootstrap 4 with another complete change of direction will be out by then

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由David Scotson發表於2014年 02月 21日(週五) 18:10

Hopefully it will. Web technology doesn't stand still and there's lots of exciting new technologies coming down the pipeline, and new best practices to adopt as people get more familiar with building websites for phones and tablets. Having nearly the entire web development community contributing and testing these things out together is an amazing "force multiplier".

I'm not sure i'd describe Bootstrap 2.3 -> 3 as a "complete change of direction" though, more an "easily manageable transition to a newer version with several major benefits" so another one of those would be welcome, I think.

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Mary Evans發表於2014年 02月 21日(週五) 20:09

I am beginning to think that perhaps Bootstrap 2 was not the ideal framework to have embarked on, however, I do think that Bootstrap 3 is far better and worth the extra work to shift to it. There is so much more within Moodle that could be simplified if only we could add those extra Bootstrap classes if we had more renderers.

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Gareth J Barnard發表於2014年 02月 21日(週五) 23:19

As with most things in software, nothing is ever finished to the point of total perfection. There is very little that is perfect unless it is simple. Such as the state transition diagrams for the TCP, UDP and IP protocols for example.

I don't think the move to Bootstrap 2 was a bad decision. It has opened a new door to another way of thinking. It has caused theme design in Moodle to expand and ultimately support multiple devices in a way that the MyMobile theme was not. It allows the concept of a single responsive theme bringing consistency in the user experience whatever device they access their Moodle upon.

If the Essential theme being based upon Bootstrap 2 was a bad decision then just look at the download statistics. I'm sure that Elegance will equal and indeed outstrip the already impressive figures.

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Mary Evans發表於2014年 02月 21日(週五) 20:18

This IS a really lovely theme Julian...I love the login page.

Well done you!

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Anu Laitakari發表於2014年 02月 21日(週五) 23:53

Hi Julian,

Thank you for this theme. I have awaiting the release with baited breath.

Just a quick question regarding the dynamic menu My Courses (that is present in Rocket and Essential). How would I add this to the theme? It is a feature that our lecturers have come to rely on. They wouldn't have the faintest idea how to use the My Page/Dashboard/Home.

Anu

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Hartmut Scherer發表於2014年 02月 22日(週六) 01:36

Hi Anu,

If you go to the Navigation block and copy the link address of "My Home," open Site administration -> Appearance -> Theme -> Theme settings and add to Custom menu items the line

My Courses|http://yourhomepage/my

The highlighted part should be the same as the link address of "My Home."

Or are you looking for something else?

With kind regards,

Hartmut

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Anu Laitakari發表於2014年 02月 24日(週一) 17:23

Hi Hartmut,

Yes slightly different. What I would like is a part to the drop down menu where the courses that a user has been enrolled on will automatically appear. So e.g. if I log in (and have been enrolled onto courses z and y), part of the custom menu will automatically create a drop down with the courses x and y in it. For another user it will pull the courses they are enrolled on etc.

Julian has this feature in Rocket (with course short names in the drop down) and Essential (with actual course names).

So I am looking for the code which to add to this theme to achieve the same thing.

Anu

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Hartmut Scherer發表於2014年 02月 24日(週一) 20:26

Hi Anu,

What I mentioned in my previous post should accomplish what you want. Did you try out my suggestion? Whether you call it "My home" or "My courses" doesn't matter. Every user will only see the courses in which he or she is enrolled in.

With kind regards,

Hartmut

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Anu Laitakari發表於2014年 02月 24日(週一) 21:11

Hi Hartmut,

Here is a screen shot of our current Moodle (with Rocket) that shows what I am after.

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Hartmut Scherer發表於2014年 02月 24日(週一) 21:41

Hi Anu,

Thanks for the screenshot, which helped me to understand what you want. My suggestion will give your users "My Courses" page with an overview of courses in which they are enrolled in.

If I understand you correctly, you would like to see all "my" courses in the custom menu either when you hover over "My Courses" or when you click on "My courses." I don't know to change the display of the custom menu from "click to expand" to "hover to expand" nor do I know whether all "My courses" will be shown by just hovering over "My courses." Like you I am used to hover over a menu item.

With kind regards,

Hartmut

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Julian Ridden發表於2014年 02月 25日(週二) 01:18

Hi All,

At this time I don't plan on building the dynamic courses list into this theme. That screenshot really highlights why. It can get out of control very fast.

This theme instead focuses on making the MyMoodle page more appealing to use. I know this won't please everyone. Of course you can still use Rocket, Essential or other themes that still have that functionality if you need it.

In short, every theme cant have all functionality. Otherwise they all just become the same. So, in this instance, it was an intentional decision to leave it out.

Julian

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Anu Laitakari發表於2014年 02月 28日(週五) 19:06

Thanks for letting me know. I prefer the My Home option myself, so I'll just have to sell the idea to academics as well.

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Julian Ridden發表於2014年 02月 24日(週一) 16:23

Happy to say that Elegance is now approved and available in the official Moodle plugins DB https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=theme_elegance

Can't wait for you to see it!

Julian

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由David Scotson發表於2014年 02月 24日(週一) 18:20

Unrelated to Elegance, but there's some weird HTML on that plugin DB page. I was initially wondering why the tabs weren't calling the standard tab function, which in a Clean-derived theme should return standard Bootstrap tabs, but also noted the drop down at the top is in a div.li inside a div.ul for some reason.

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Mark Whitington發表於2014年 02月 27日(週四) 09:19

Hi,

This is probably a newbie issue but I cleared my Theme caches and have installed Elegance via the "Install Plugins" interface ... all seemed to go well. This was done on my localhost site.

When returned to the notifications page I get the following screen. I did not change nor enter any specific items during the setup... I am unsure how to fix. Hope you can assist.

Elegance image

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Julian Ridden發表於2014年 02月 27日(週四) 16:09

My suggestion would be to uninstall and try again. It looks like the stylesheets have not ben loaded properly.

Julian

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Hartmut Scherer發表於2014年 02月 28日(週五) 02:28

Hi Mark,

Try this theme with Theme designer mode turned on (Site administration -> Appearance -> Themes -> Theme settings). I get the same display like you in Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 10, but when Theme designer mode is on, it looks fine.

With kind regards,

Hartmut

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Julian Ridden發表於2014年 02月 28日(週五) 03:49

That is really weird. Ill see if I can confirm. If so then Ill see if I can squash whatever bug is causing it.

Julian

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由arslan ali發表於2014年 03月 19日(週三) 22:03

Hi julian, there is some bugs i have found.

After installing themes, it wont "cache" the styles and images and it loads the the theme without CSS and images. So we do have to enable the theme mode to make it run properly. kindly look into that part - that why your theme is not creating cache to moodle data. Thanks

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Julian Ridden發表於2014年 03月 20日(週四) 07:26

Thanks for your report.

I just tried installing the theme from scratch into 3 sites (two linux hosted, one windows) and all running 2.6.

I sadly am not able to replicate. They all installed cleanly and loaded just fine.

Has anyone else seen this behaviour? If so, what version of moodle and what type of server?

Julian

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Gareth J Barnard發表於2014年 03月 20日(週四) 16:09

Nor me locally on windows. IE issue? More information (like versions and browsers) and a screen shot would be helpful please

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Hartmut Scherer發表於2014年 03月 20日(週四) 17:02

Hi Julian,

I have the same issue. If theme designer mode is on, I can see and use Elegance. If it's off, I see the tree similar to Mark Whitington's post on Feb 27, 2014 (see above in this discussion). Here is my screenshot. There is no debug message available.

I use bitnami-moodle-2.6-0-windows-installer in Windows 8 for my local installation, updated Moodle to version 2.6.2 (Build: 20140310). Elegance version is 2.6.1 (Build: 20140311).

As Simon Allison reported a theme designer issue HERE, the issue may not be caused by a particular theme, but by the (local) server. Unfortunately, I cannot test Elegance on our server where our production site is running.

With kind regards,
Hartmut

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Julian Ridden發表於2014年 03月 20日(週四) 17:39

In this particular case I can say quite safely that the theme is not the cause of your issue here. As to the true cause, sadly I do not know. Have you turned on developer debugging to get more info. If so, what was displayed?

Julian

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Hartmut Scherer發表於2014年 03月 20日(週四) 18:17

Hi Julian,

I did the screenshot in my previous post with developer debugging mode on - no message was displayed. I use Google Chrome version 33.0.1750.154 m.

Using the information of Arslan Ali's post from March 20, 2014 (same discussion), I would like to know what can hinder Moodle to cache styles and images of themes?

With kind regards,

Hartmut

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Richard Oelmann發表於2014年 03月 20日(週四) 19:13

Hartmut - possibly a red herring, but you say in the other thread you have Gareth's collapsed topics course format installed. I know Gareth had to do some work on that for compatibility with Elegance. Do you have that latest version of it installed? Not sure how or why that could have this effect, but trying to narrow down possibilities

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Hartmut Scherer發表於2014年 03月 20日(週四) 20:24

Hi Richard,

Thank you for your response. The installed collapsed topics format is version 2.6.1.3 (build: 2014022000). I guess this is the latest version. I will continue to test and see what's going on.

With kind regards,

Hartmut

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Gareth J Barnard發表於2014年 03月 20日(週四) 22:59

Hi Richard and Hartmut,

The change I made to CT and other formats for Elegance was small: https://github.com/gjb2048/moodle-format_topcoll/commit/820b11ca83b2ac7de1c1a904dad158c58b8d65e4. It was released on the 20th February when Elegance was put on Moodle.org.

The fix is server side and nothing to do with the CSS. It just makes it work with the overridden renderer for single section course layouts in Elegance: https://github.com/moodleman/moodle-theme_elegance/commit/deafc650378d5f2091b1664d9af64a9a68dfb700 which I worked with Juilan to make work.

I would be gob smacked if had anything to do with the caching CSS issue.

Gareth

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Richard Oelmann發表於2014年 03月 20日(週四) 23:43

That's why I said I couldn't imagine how it would have an effect Gareth - but it was the only other difference I could see in what Hartmut had in his setup. But now from his testing it looks as if its something in the server set up perhaps.

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Gareth J Barnard發表於2014年 03月 20日(週四) 23:59

Ta Richard, just clarifying.

This: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=256726 is providing more information.

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Hartmut Scherer發表於2014年 03月 20日(週四) 21:43

UPDATE of my messages regarding theme designer mode on

Hi all,

Thanks for your patience and testing. Today I installed Moodle 2.6.2 in a subdirectory of our production site, added the theme Elegance and had no issues. I didn't need to turn theme designer mode on. I still cannot provide any explanation why I have to turn theme designer mode on in a local Bitnami-Moodle installation, but it doesn't bother me any longer.

With kind regards,

Hartmut

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Richard Oelmann發表於2014年 03月 20日(週四) 19:10

I've got Elegance on a few systems for testing and development (all Linux, but various from localhost solutions on Mint desktops to full CentOS server deployments). I have tried disabling Theme Developer Mode and have no issues with the css coming through on any of these instances.

Richard

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Yeisson Darío Mena Triana發表於2014年 03月 19日(週三) 00:00

So... any chance you know how to fix this problem?

I haven't found out how to fix this... I hope you can help me.

Thanks

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Anu Laitakari發表於2014年 02月 24日(週一) 19:25

The quiz grading is behaving slightly oddly at the moment. The side blocks seem to be on top of the content and there is no horizontal scroll bar. (Quiz administration - results - Grades)

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Hartmut Scherer發表於2014年 02月 28日(週五) 16:23

Hi Anu,

Add the following CSS in Custom CSS of Elegance

.pagelayout-report .no-overflow {
overflow: auto;
}

Then you should see the horizontal scrollbar.

With kind regards,

Hartmut

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Julian Ridden發表於2014年 02月 28日(週五) 16:54

Thanks for sharing that Hartmut.

I'll test in my own install and if it passes add it to the release due out next week.

Julian

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Reinaldo Alcalá發表於2014年 06月 25日(週三) 20:26

Hi Julian and all!

This is my first time in a moodle forum, so i don´t know if i´m asking in the right way, before starting i just want to say this theme is amazing!

i´m working with this theme in two languages, english and spanish, with some moddle sections and specified fields i can use

<span lang="XX" class="multilang">your_content_here</span>
<span lang="YY" class="multilang">your_content_in_other_language_here</span>

this is working with most of the moddle sections, courses, categories, etc.., and to translate the custom menu i´m using the Item|Language only item|en and this work good too.

My problem is when trying to translate for example the fields for the quick links titles in the home page, front page content section and some others template´s section

Could you help me to locate where may i add this kind of support to your template? wich .php file should i see? or some indication that could help me find the path to work on this? i would appreciate it a lot

Thanks!!

Reinaldo Alcalá

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Mary Evans發表於2014年 06月 26日(週四) 00:49

Unfortunately the text area does not process multi language text unless it has been built into the theme. As far as I am aware, I am sorry to say that this is NOT a feature of the Elegance theme.

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Danny Wahl發表於2014年 06月 26日(週四) 06:57

is that a feature I can add to the theme or is that a limitation of the text filter?

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Anu Laitakari發表於2014年 02月 28日(週五) 17:52

Thanks Hartmut,

That's done the trick.

Anu

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Anu Laitakari發表於2014年 03月 1日(週六) 00:16

HI again Hartmut,

I was a bit premature in my jubilation. The same issue appears in Grade administration - categories and items - full view.

I still have the custom CSS added in Elegance.

Anu

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Hartmut Scherer發表於2014年 03月 2日(週日) 23:43

Hi Anu,

When I inspect the element and add overflow: auto (see highlighted line), the problem is solved. But I don't know how to put this in proper CSS code.

grader report full view

With kind regards,

Hartmut

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Paul Hibbitts發表於2014年 02月 25日(週二) 09:01

Thanks so much for this great theme Julian!

For some unknown reason, once I install the theme the Theme Selector page is blank. When I uninstall Elegance the Theme Selector page appears once again as expected. I've searched the forums and have been unable to find a solution which addresses my specific situation.

Any ideas or suggestions? I am running Moodle 2.6.1.

Thanks very much,
Paul

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Julian Ridden發表於2014年 02月 26日(週三) 02:30

Are you sure all the files wee copied across?

Also, if you get a blank screen turn on debugging in moodle and try again It will at least then tell you exactly what is going wrong and where.

Julian

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Paul Hibbitts發表於2014年 02月 26日(週三) 03:18

Thanks for the prompt reply Julian. I installed via the upgrade process, so it looks like everything went ok with that.

I turned on debugging, and got this message on the Theme Selector page:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class theme_bootstrap_core_renderer_maintenance in /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/moodle26/theme/elegance/renderers/maintenance_renderer.php on line 51

UPDATE: This made me wonder about possible conflicts with other Bootstrap themes. Aardvark seems ok, but once I removed Bas Brands' beta Boostrap 3 theme I was once again able to access the theme selector page. I will also pass this info along to Bas.

Thanks
Paul

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Paul Hibbitts發表於2014年 02月 26日(週三) 04:34

Now that I've been able to get Elegance up and running, I've noticed that if I change the Theme Color, the new color does not seem to appear in section headers if the Social Format is used for a course format.

I've attached a screenshot to illustrate this, please note the blue section bar on the left hand side and the green (chosen Theme Color) on the left hand side widgets.

I've also noticed that in FireFox (Mac and Windows) icons next to Widget titles appear not to be rendering as expected (please see attached screenshot). Icons next to Widget titles look fine with Chrome and Safari.

Thanks again for this great theme,
Paul

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由KirK Chapman發表於2014年 02月 28日(週五) 09:15

First of all... Super Big ups for the theme !!! I'm awestruck! Loaded it with absolutely no problems. After loading I'll piggyback on Paul's issue. IE 10 and 11 look great. FF 27.0.1 and Chrome 33.0.1 have the title icon issue and my iPad 7.0.3 has the overlapping log in screen issue.

Moodle 2.6.1+ (as a note I'm running PHP 5.4, my host does not yet offer 5.5)

Elegance Release 2.6.0 (Build: 20140220)

Another big ups

to you and all the Theme Team on this forum!

Thanks,

Peace

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Paul Hibbitts發表於2014年 02月 28日(週五) 10:15

Hi Kirk,

I've discovered that by setting the "FontAwesome from CDN" option ON (located on the General Settings area for the Elegance theme settings) I've got the icons now appearing for my site - perhaps that might also work for you too?

Cheers,
Paul

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由KirK Chapman發表於2014年 02月 28日(週五) 11:05

That's the magic,Paul, It's the setting I should have set!

Just the iPad overlapping issue remains.

I'm having a good time just experimenting with this jewel.

Many thanks,

Peace

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Paul Hibbitts發表於2014年 03月 13日(週四) 04:52

Thanks for all the recent fixes Julian, the Social Format colors display as expected now.

Thanks again,
Paul

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Jez H發表於2014年 02月 27日(週四) 05:44

I think one of the most interesting features of this theme is the tiled layout which kind of builds on the idea behind the grid layout.

I have not delved into how you did this, but would it be possible to do this in a course format plugin?

I was thinking recently it would be nice if you could attach images to activities and resources and display them more like grid handles sections Or how Moodle now adds images to courses in category listings. Ideally you would want to be able to set display options in the resource or activity settings for more control.

All pie in the sky, never the less your tile layout is an interesting step in that direction, no more scroll of death

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Gareth J Barnard發表於2014年 02月 27日(週四) 06:18

Hi Jez,

There are lots of course formats (https://moodle.org/plugins/browse.php?list=category&id=19) that already operate a tiled form of structure, such as the 'Masonry topics format'. Also, Collapsed Topics and Columns offer multiple columns to facilitate more sections per row.

Also, the theme already uses course format code in an overridden nature - https://github.com/moodleman/moodle-theme_elegance/blob/master/renderers/core_renderer.php#L552 - so could be made into a course format with the right extracted CSS.

Gareth

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Jez H發表於2014年 02月 28日(週五) 01:31

Hi Gareth,

Thanks for your reply, I have already tried all of the course formats available and have used grid, collapsed and columns on our live system for around eight months

I think what Julian has done is distinct in that it applies to the activity not the course section?

Jez

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Gareth J Barnard發表於2014年 02月 28日(週五) 01:34

Hi Jez,

I had a look at what Julian has done in terms of styles and the option of styles for that functionality. It would not be rocket science to add it to a course format.

Cheers,

Gareth

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Mary Evans發表於2014年 02月 27日(週四) 17:46

Hi Julian,

I've just noticed that you are still excluding the Block -> HTML-> CSS. This has been removed from Bootstrap and also the stylesheet from the HTML block. So you can remove that from Elegance now.

Also have you seen the new advances in MODs and PLUGINS stylesheet cababilities? Checkout MDL-41767 to learn more.

Cheers

Mary

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由David Scotson發表於2014年 02月 27日(週四) 18:58

Mary, I think I agree with your point that most plugins shouldn't be themeing themselves, they should fit in with Moodle by using standard conventions.

Though like with the core styles, the first step should probably be to delete all the broken, duplicate, contradictory, unnecessary, outdated, non-mobile friendly and/or simply ugly CSS so that we can get a clear idea about what's left to be done.

This might be a useful tool for this process as you can, instead of deleting these lines, simply move them to a style_base.css so that "legacy" themes remain unchanged but modern themes can only inherit the actually useful styles.

Oh, and there's also work being done or server-based LESS compilation, which seems to be working in the same space as this, and might (at least in very hopefuly theory) simplify the styles that plugins need to write.

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Julian Ridden發表於2014年 03月 3日(週一) 04:03

Thanks for those updates Mary. Ill follow up with some testing and make the appropriate changes ASAP.

Julian

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Julian Ridden發表於2014年 02月 27日(週四) 19:13

I have just put up a Vimeo highlighting some of the core features of the Elegance theme. Enjoy.

I will be making another one soon showing how you can customise this theme.

from Julian Ridden on Vimeo.

Julian

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Anu Laitakari發表於2014年 02月 28日(週五) 19:04

Hi Julian,

A very elegant presentation. I especially like the music. Is it open source? If so, could you send a link a I would like to use it in a college project.

Thanks!

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Julian Ridden發表於2014年 03月 1日(週六) 03:38

No, music is not open source. I had to buy access to it. I got it from http://audiojungle.net/

Sadly I got it a while ago and cant remember the name But AudioJungle has lots of cool tracks like this so I am sure you will find one you like.

Julian

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Usman Asar發表於2014年 03月 3日(週一) 01:30

Ahm Ahm, Speechless

Do you really want all the LMS/VLE users to switch to Moodle at some point?

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Paul Wood發表於2014年 02月 27日(週四) 21:27

Love the look of this theme, unfortuantely I couldn't get it to work on our site as it threw a PHP coding error (this must be fixed by a dev) message.

Any ideas?

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Mary Evans發表於2014年 02月 28日(週五) 10:52

We need to see the Error message so can you try and copy it and paste it in a comment here?

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Anu Laitakari發表於2014年 02月 28日(週五) 22:27

Two new questions I am looking to find help for:

1. Front page blocks with scroll bars. I have added a block to the front page left hand side. It appears with scroll bars. How can I remove them? (see image attached, problem highlighted in yellow)

2. "My Home" - page. Can the My Courses section be disabled or hidden somehow? The reasons for asking are twofold. Firstly, the delay for the image to fly out and be replaced with the course name and enter box can be irritating if a user needs to access courses quickly. I can see this becoming an issue for our users who are not known for their patience. (Although I like the visual element this section provides.) Secondly and more seriously, with long course names the enter box disappears (is pushed below) and the course becomes inaccessible from that point.

Thanks for your help!

Anu

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Julian Ridden發表於2014年 03月 1日(週六) 03:41

Hi Anu,

I will look into the blocks for you. I have not seen this behaviour on my own sites so not sure what is causing it for you yet.

No, you cannot disable the myCourses. It is part of the design. You can go through and edit the code to remove it if you like. Please note that every time you update the theme you would have to repeat this process and I cannot help you with other unintended side effects should you choose to do so.

The thing about themes is that each bring their own ideas to the table. I can't make a theme everyone will like. I instead make one that I will like and hope others feel the same. Does not mean it is the right theme for everyone.

Julian

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Some blocking bug

由Michel DENIS發表於2014年 03月 2日(週日) 13:27

Hello,

I'm using the latest version (2014022002) of Elegance from the plugin repository, on a Moodle 2.6, and the course setup with Elegance cannot display any more (no access to it). Instead comes the message:

Coding error detected, it must be fixed by a programmer: PHP catchable fatal error

The other courses (running other themes like Clean and Essential) are working well.

The full debugging trace is as follows:

get_context_instance() is deprecated, please use context_xxxx::instance() instead.

    line 4020 of /lib/deprecatedlib.php: call to debugging()
    line 30 of /blocks/quickmail/block_quickmail.php: call to get_context_instance()
    line 775 of /blocks/moodleblock.class.php: call to block_quickmail->get_content()
    line 238 of /blocks/moodleblock.class.php: call to block_list->formatted_contents()
    line 956 of /lib/blocklib.php: call to block_base->get_content_for_output()
    line 1008 of /lib/blocklib.php: call to block_manager->create_block_contents()
    line 353 of /lib/blocklib.php: call to block_manager->ensure_content_created()
    line 27 of /theme/elegance/layout/default.php: call to block_manager->region_has_content()
    line 866 of /lib/outputrenderers.php: call to include()
    line 796 of /lib/outputrenderers.php: call to core_renderer->render_page_layout()
    line 244 of /course/view.php: call to core_renderer->header()

Coding error detected, it must be fixed by a programmer: PHP catchable fatal error

Debug info: Argument 1 passed to user_picture::__construct() must be an instance of stdClass, boolean given, called in [dirroot]/theme/elegance/renderers/core_renderer.php on line 187 and defined
Error code: codingerror
Stack trace:

    line 393 of /lib/setuplib.php: coding_exception thrown
    line 183 of /lib/outputcomponents.php: call to default_error_handler()
    line 187 of /theme/elegance/renderers/core_renderer.php: call to user_picture->__construct()
    line 150 of /theme/elegance/renderers/core_renderer.php: call to theme_elegance_core_renderer->render_user_menu()
    line 75 of /theme/elegance/layout/default.php: call to theme_elegance_core_renderer->user_menu()
    line 866 of /lib/outputrenderers.php: call to include()
    line 796 of /lib/outputrenderers.php: call to core_renderer->render_page_layout()
    line 244 of /course/view.php: call to core_renderer->header()

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Re: Some blocking bug

由Gareth J Barnard發表於2014年 03月 2日(週日) 18:48

Hi Michel,

The first issue is a Quickmail fault and not related to the theme, report it to the author. The second is an issue with the theme.

Cheers,

Gareth

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Re: Some blocking bug

由Michel DENIS發表於2014年 03月 3日(週一) 03:47

thanks Gareth, I will do

also looking forward to a solution to the Elegance theme problem

-michel

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Re: Some blocking bug

由Julian Ridden發表於2014年 03月 3日(週一) 04:01

And I cannot replicate the theme issue. Can I confirm what version on Moodle you have this installed on. The iMoot site is running the code from github and is not throwing any errors.

Julian

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Re: Some blocking bug

由Michel DENIS發表於2014年 03月 3日(週一) 14:08

This is: Moodle 2.6 (Build: 20131118)

It is installed through Softaculous in a shared hosting environnement run by an internet services provider (on a CentOS i guess), and running for 2 months now without problem.

Lots of plugins installed (like this Quickmail which throws messages in debugging mode), especially because I am running connectist types of small MOOCs on the system. Maybe a conflict or interference between Elegance and some of these plugins ?

On the same Moodle installation about 10 courses using various themes, including Standard, Clean, Simple, Essential (all running well) and now testing to add Elegance for a new course, take this time from the plugins repositor of Moodle.org.

Some weeks ago I installed a previous build of Elegance, from Github. I had similar problems that I reported in the forum (it was another thread announcing Elegance). Someone there wrote that the problem was corrected.

The behaviour is strange, this time and last time (previous build) too: I install Elegance, no errors and everything seems ok after playing about an hour, during which I makevarious parameterizations of the theme (colours, ...) leading to great hopes with this great theme. The day after when I want to view again my course, there's no more access to it, and no more access duing the next days too. That's the scenario that happened now 2 times, now with this latest build and earlier with the previous one.

-michel

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Re: Some blocking bug

由Gareth J Barnard發表於2014年 03月 3日(週一) 20:54

Hi Michel,

Given the stack trace, the Quickmail issue can happen with any theme and is a fault in their code.

Cheers,

Gareth

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Re: Some blocking bug

由Mary Evans發表於2014年 03月 4日(週二) 05:18

Hi,

The Quickmail plugin is using depreciated code, so all YOU need to do is read the stack track and find the line 775 in the file mentioned inside Quickmail and change the get_context::instance() to context_xxxx::instance() .

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Re: Some blocking bug

由David Scotson發表於2014年 03月 4日(週二) 04:58

I see this same error with Bas's Bootstrap 3 theme, though I seem to be the only one. I didn't get to the bottom of it but there's some details of what I found here:

https://github.com/bmbrands/theme_bootstrap/issues/103

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Re: Some blocking bug

由Michel DENIS發表於2014年 03月 4日(週二) 23:28

David, and all,

I am testing the #103 change on Elegance, initially it works but let's see tomorrow or so when the environment will haved chaged, as usual.

For those who would like to test too, the annex contains a pic of the added lines.

Crossing my fingers ...

Thanks,

-michel

附件 core_renderer change in Elegance.jpeg

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Re: Some blocking bug

由Michel DENIS發表於2014年 03月 4日(週二) 23:31

David, and all,

I am testing the #103 change on Elegance, initially it works but let's see tomorrow or so when the environment will haved chaged, as usual.

For those who would like to test too, the annex contains a pic of the added lines.

Crossing my fingers ...

Thanks,

-michel

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Aaron Batty發表於2014年 03月 24日(週一) 09:29

Anu:

I totally understand why Julian wouldn't want to take this out of the theme; it's a big part of the vision of the thing, and I think it'd work great with some content. But my users are like yours and I've already gotten some mails about it. Also, like your course names, mine are too long to show up right.

All you have to do to remove My Courses is comment out that section of my.php. The Course Overview block moves up, and no one is the wiser. I definitely miss having the "All Courses" button right there, but maybe I'll fiddle with that.

The code you're looking for is this:

            <div class="block block_dashboardcourses" role="complementary">
                <div class="header">
                    <div class="title">
                        <?php
                        echo '<div id="allcourses" class="btn"><a href="'.$CFG->wwwroot.'/course/">All Courses</a></div>';
                           ?>
                           <h2 >My Courses</h2>
                    </div>
                </div>
                <div class="content">
                    <div class="mycourseboxes">
                        <?php
                            echo $OUTPUT->mycourses($CFG,$sidebar);
                        ?>
                    </div>
                </div>
            </div>

--Just comment that out in the HTML and your users won't bug you.

There was no way I was going to give up on the Elegance theme, though. I've put a bunch of time into tweaking my site to look good in it. The login screen (the first thing people see in my case) is worth any other minor hassles I've had, which are few, because Julian is unbelievably present here!

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Anu Laitakari發表於2014年 03月 24日(週一) 16:39

Thanks Aaron, I'll check it out.

Anu

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Ben McLaughlin發表於2014年 12月 29日(週一) 17:36

Hi all, hope you can help me please.

Did anyone ever get to the bottom of the scroll bar being present in any block added to the left of the marketing spots (hopefully Ive attached an image, but this chap had the same issue). Ideally I woul like to get rid of the scroll bar. Any help appreciated, thanks Ben

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Mary Evans發表於2014年 12月 29日(週一) 22:32

Yes...you need to add overflow: hidden; to the css for the block region.

I'll need to hunt for it but will be back to post the correct CSS rule to for it shortly...

Cheers

Mary

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Mary Evans發表於2014年 12月 29日(週一) 23:14

OK...here's the fix...

#block-region-side-middle .content { overflow: hidden; height: auto;}

You can add the above CSS to Elegance's General Settings page in the designated Custom CSS box. You can add a value for height if you prefer.

For Example:

#block-region-side-middle .content { overflow: hidden; height: 250px;}

Should fix it if not let me know.

Cheers

Mary

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Ben McLaughlin發表於2014年 12月 30日(週二) 00:48

Thanks Mary, I'll try this when I get in. Many thanks for your help, much appreciated. Ben

Sent from my HTC

(Edited by Mary Evans - Removed duplicated forum comment in email reply - original submission Monday, 29 December 2014, 4:48 PM)

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Ben McLaughlin發表於2014年 12月 30日(週二) 02:51

Hi Mary, thank for your help with this.

Unfortunately I tried both, with and without height and still have the scroll bar. I copied to the css custom box on the elegance general settings page, so think I have done this correctly. Is there a setting I need to enable somewhere for the custom css box to work...or?

The other thing Im struggling with is the slideshow is tiling/doubling up when viewed on my android phone (havent tried it on others yet) - is this a common issue?

Many thanks for your time, Ben

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Usman Asar發表於2014年 12月 30日(週二) 02:39

Ben,

open Elegance folder, go to STYLE folder, and open file elegance.css

go to line 1506 (should be around that number)

find the code below

#block-region-side-middle .block .content {
    height: 220px;
    overflow-y: auto;
    overflow-x: hidden;
    padding: 5px 0px;

Change the value in overflow-y: to auto; (as shown)

save the file, and you may have to purge theme cache.

alternatively, you can add to the theme CSS these values

#block-region-side-middle .block .content {overflow-y: auto;}

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Ben McLaughlin發表於2014年 12月 30日(週二) 03:26

Thanks Usman and Mary that worked.

Any ideas how to stop the slideshow tiling/doubling when viewed on a mobile?

Sorry if Im asking basic Qs, I manage a joomla site for my guitar tuition but trying to get a music school site ready so on a bit of a learning curve with Moodle.

Many thanks for the help, Ben

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Usman Asar發表於2014年 12月 30日(週二) 10:30

Ben, I couldn't get my head around imagining the issue you are having on Android, I know it would be hard for you to attach a screen shot out of android capture as well. Besides, even if you can, getting around slide show in Elegance may not be something that can be easy fix (Mary may be able to assist more due to her skills)

Just to ask, have you alternatively tried Essential theme? the reason for mentioning Essential was its status being up-to-date as when compared to Elegance, while elegance may not have been tested on multiple platforms, I am sure Essential is and there is option of turning off slide shows on mobile devices too, whilst not in Elegance. I know Elegance is as awesome as Essential is (I am using Elegance on all my projects) as both were initially created by same person, but if I see Essential now, its way better than when it came out initially.

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Ben McLaughlin發表於2014年 12月 30日(週二) 15:55

Thanks Usman,

a few weeks back when I first started to try and get my head around moodle and its structure/behaviour the first thing that I did was install essential to improve the overall look (actually, i'm still stuck in aesthetics mode so I'm praying that I can get the catagory/course/student/teacher role and permissions requirements right for my project as everytime I go there my head hurts a bit - thats a whole other story, where would I post my cry for help on that one?)

Elegance (imo) is a massive leap forward in terms of being able to get a more normal website feel to the landing page. I know this shouldnt be a priority but I am trying to see the site through the eyes of a user.

I'll try and get a screenshot of the android view of the slideshow later (somehow) and see if anyone has any ideas.

Cheers, Ben

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Usman Asar發表於2014年 12月 30日(週二) 16:58

Ben, you're at the right forum/post for Elegance's issues, normally you've got plenty replies regarding your issues right away, but considering Christmas just passed and new year a day away, so most of the forum mods are away to return within few days to assist you further. You should have seen some examples build upon Essential as well to get a good taste of how well a moodle can be built upon that, it was actually essential that changed the whole idea of Moodle not looking like moodle, in fact if I have to tell, many of the premium themes are build upon Essential (Essential Gourmet is one of them for $89 I believe).

It just gave me an idea of Moodle Showcase link, where one can actually view and get ideas of how well a moodle site can be built

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Mary Evans發表於2014年 12月 30日(週二) 20:56

Hi Ben,

If you are looking for help setting up your course, as well as getting to grips with MOODLE, you would be better talking to Mary Cooch., who can point you in the right direction.

One pount to remember that ALL the changes you make to Moodle that are not theme related, like setting up a course, creating groups, adding course content ect., is held in Moodle so does not matter which theme you use for Admin work, so to stop you getting distracted, you may find it easier and less painful if you switched to Clean Theme to do all the Admin work. Once that is done then you can make it look pretty in Essential.

Remember too that for all the areas that you struggle to get your head around, such as the Admin settings, roles and permissions et al, you will find Moodle Docs on the subjects. Just be sure to select the correct Moodle version as these can differ slightly From one version to another.

Keep asking questions here as we can all help you, and if necessary move your question to amother forum.

Cheers

Mary

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Paul Wood發表於2014年 03月 4日(週二) 18:48

I've attached a screenshot of the coding error I get when I use Theme Selector to choose the theme. Any ideas what is causing this?

Cheers,
Paul

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Michel DENIS發表於2014年 03月 4日(週二) 23:37

Paul,

The expert team here will need more info like I did : put the Debugger On with the highest level/amount of messages and tell the team what you get. Maybe you'll get a similar trace to what I got (see above, the same message as you got and the trace below it, not the trace above which is related to another module).

Good luck !

-michel

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Paul Wood發表於2014年 03月 5日(週三) 17:21

Sorry, here's the debug log...

Debug info: Argument 1 passed to user_picture::__construct() must be an instance of stdClass, boolean given, called in /u0/webroot/virtual/MYSITEURL/ftp/theme/elegance/renderers/core_renderer.php on line 187 and defined
Error code: codingerror

Stack trace:

line 393 of /lib/setuplib.php: coding_exception thrown
line 183 of /lib/outputcomponents.php: call to default_error_handler()
line 187 of /u0/webroot/virtual/MYSITEURL/ftp/theme/elegance/renderers/core_renderer.php: call to user_picture->__construct()
line 150 of /u0/webroot/virtual/MYSITEURL/ftp/theme/elegance/renderers/core_renderer.php: call to theme_elegance_core_renderer->render_user_menu()
line 75 of /u0/webroot/virtual/MYSITEURL/ftp/theme/elegance/layout/default.php: call to theme_elegance_core_renderer->user_menu()
line 866 of /lib/outputrenderers.php: call to include()
line 796 of /lib/outputrenderers.php: call to core_renderer->render_page_layout()
line 68 of /theme/index.php: call to core_renderer->header()

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Paul Wood發表於2014年 03月 5日(週三) 18:20

I have a major problem now as when instead of immediately switching back to the Clean theme by pressing the browser back button and choosing another theme, I closed down the tab and now I'm locked out of the site! I get a completely blank page when I go to my site and cannot get into the site at all. I assume this is because it's trying to use the Elegance theme but as that doesn't work on my site it refuses to load up at all! Please help me get the site back up!

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由David Scotson發表於2014年 03月 5日(週三) 19:01

According to the stack trace you posted, you're hitting the same bug that I mentioned earlier.

If you have access to the server you could try making this change to the file mentioned in your error message:

https://github.com/bmbrands/theme_bootstrap/pull/125/files

edit: I see a picture of this change is posted above, too.

But, as far as my experience goes, this bug does not result in a white/blank page. It all works fine before you log in, and then (if you happen to have a message waiting for you that doesn't have a sender) you'll get the coding error warning.

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Paul Wood發表於2014年 03月 5日(週三) 19:28

Thanks David, I've made the change to the core_renderers.php file on the server but the site is still not appearing.

Any ideas?

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由David Scotson發表於2014年 03月 5日(週三) 19:53

If you have access to the server you should be able to switch the theme from the command line, though to be honest I don't know how.

You can hardcode some setting in the config.php but a quick google doesn't turn up the format that you'd need to use to change the theme (if you can).

I just tried this in config.php and it worked (though only after I logged out, but that might be because I use session themes while developing, if you can't log out, try accessing your site from a browser you've not used for a while)

$CFG->theme = 'arialist';

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Paul Wood發表於2014年 03月 6日(週四) 23:27

Hi David,

The problem was unrelated to the Elegance theme. When I got the 'coding error' prompt I pressed the back button (originally thought I didn't do this but I did!) and chose the Decaf theme. I contacted our hosting provider who told me there was an issue with this theme and this was what was preventing the site from being accessed (Internal Server Error 500). This is the error:

Fatal error: require_once(): Cannot redeclare class decaf_expand_navigation in /u0/webroot/virtual/MYSITEURL/www/theme/decaf/layout/frontpage.php on line 3

Seems like there was a recent update to the Decaf theme and this caused the fatal error when choosing the theme from the Theme Selector page.

All back up and running now! Loving the Elegance theme!

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Michel DENIS發表於2014年 03月 6日(週四) 00:51

David, the change is still making my platform work. Maybe it could go into the next release of Elegance ?

-michel

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由David Scotson發表於2014年 03月 6日(週四) 04:55

Possibly in the short term it should, though its not a fix, it just hides the problem a little, so a real solution would be best.

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Julian Ridden發表於2014年 03月 6日(週四) 05:21

Hi Michael,

Thanks for the report.

What you have suggested is sadly not the best solution. It does not actually fix the issue. Just covers it up.

Hopefully we can find a proper fix and then I will build it into Elegance ASAP.

Julian

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由James Morgan發表於2014年 03月 6日(週四) 13:57

How do I go about adding the custom block with additional information on the Login screen. I have looked everywhere. Thank you!

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Mary Evans發表於2014年 03月 6日(週四) 18:09

Unless I am mistaken and you are wanting to add custom blocks in the footer then you need to first enable editing and then go to the 'ADD BLOCK' block and add an HTML block and then customise it as you want.

If I have got this wrong and it is not a block you want to add but can't find the settings then have you looked in the Elegance settings page found in the list just under Site Administration > Appearance > Themes > Elegance

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Julian Ridden發表於2014年 03月 8日(週六) 08:29

This theme does not support the addition of blocks to the login screen. What are you trying to do?

Julian

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Mary Evans發表於2014年 03月 8日(週六) 18:58

I totally missed the "additional information" part of the question. Isn't that in Site administration > Plugins > Enrolment methods or something similar?

Trouble is once set, one forgets!

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Małgorzata Łuczkiewicz發表於2014年 03月 10日(週一) 18:05

I have a question, is it possible to use Google / Facebook / Github / Linkedin / Windows authentication in Elegance theme. https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=auth_googleoauth2&nonjscomment=1&comment_itemid=40&comment_context=50&comment_area=plugin_general

If yes, what should I do, to make it works.

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Julian Ridden發表於2014年 03月 11日(週二) 07:51

yes, you can use the oAuth Auth plugin with this theme.

Grab the latest copy from Github (as I only added this today for you)

Once you have it, open up layout/login.php and you will need to uncomment line 338

// require_once($CFG->dirroot . '/auth/googleoauth2/lib.php'); auth_googleoauth2_display_buttons();

Obviously make sure you also have the oAuth plugin installed as well.

Once you have done this the extra login options will show up on the login.php page.

Julian

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Nick Broughton發表於2014年 04月 30日(週三) 19:58

Hi Julian. First time Moodler here and having a little difficulty in getting the Oauth2 plugin working. I am very new to Moodle and to php/html/css etc, so I have very limited knowledge on this, however, I learn quick and have a basic understanding of the coding.

I have followed the instruction you listed above, the plugin is installed, I have removed the /// from the line /// require_once etc (although that line is line 346 in my login.php file.

I have absolutely no idea how to manually setup the plugin so it will authenticate against google/fb/outlook etc so I would really appreciate it if someone could point me in the direction of a walkthrough guide as sorts for the beginner please!

I am using Moodle 2.6.2 Build: 20140310 with your amazing elegance theme. the url is http://learning.advantagetrainingservices.co.uk and I cannot for the life of me get those icons to appear, let alone authenticate.

Sincerely appreciate any assistance!

Many thanks, Nick

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Mary Evans發表於2014年 04月 30日(週三) 21:03

Hi Nick,

Have you seen the Oauth2 Easy theme which may help in understanding how this all works?

Cheers

Mary

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Nick Broughton發表於2014年 04月 30日(週三) 21:56

Thanks for the link Mary. My understanding of it is if I load this theme then i will lose the elegance features, which I have already built. The only issue I face is how to actually get the Oauth2 plugin enabled and functioning, without ideally having to change/alter the theme.

Many thanks for your assistance.

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Richard Oelmann發表於2014年 04月 30日(週三) 23:06

I suspect Mary's suggestion was more along the lines of - if you look at that theme, which is built in a simpler way as it doesn't try to do as much, you might get some clues to help make it work on your theme based on Elegance, rather than suggesting you rebuild your theme based on that one

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Mary Evans發表於2014年 05月 1日(週四) 00:23

Hi Nick, I am not telling you to abandon the changes you are making to Elegance theme, I am just pointing out that if you uploaded the Oauth2 Easy theme you could test that out and your Elegance theme would not be affected.

To install the plugin, as this seems, if I am not mistaken, to be the point where you are struggling the most, you need to first download Oauth2 plugin from...

https://moodle.org/plugins/pluginversions.php?plugin=auth_googleoauth2

then extract the 'googleoauth2' folder from the zip file and place it inside the moodle/auth directory on your Moodle server, which should give you...

If you are already logged in when you are adding the plugin then by refreshing your screen and going to Site Administration > Notifications you will be directed to Install the plugin in the Check plugins page.

Once done and providing you have Elegance set up correctly, and also set it as the default theme for your moodle site, the next time you try to login you will be able to use your Google id or whatever other id you intend using.

I hope that helps?

Mary

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Frances Angulo發表於2014年 07月 25日(週五) 04:41

Did we ever find a solution for this? I have 2.7 using the elegance theme and no Oauth2 features seem to appear even when configured correctly.

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Heinz Schmolke發表於2014年 08月 6日(週三) 05:38

Great theme, thank you.

I have two problems. I upgraded to moodle 2.7 and my questions are:

- as you see in the attachment the marketing spot don't fill the whole width. how can I solve it?

- when I define the pictures for the marketing spot I can't upload a picture in the editor. I can only insert a link. Are there special reasons for that?

Thanks

Heinz

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Emma Richardson發表於2014年 08月 6日(週三) 06:17

The marketing spots are designed to only take half the page. You can insert and html block (or any block) in the other half. They are also designed for a short blurb rather than a lot of detail. I am not sure why we cannot put an actual picture in there unless it is linked to. I have found a way around that is to add the main menu block to the front page, add the picture there as a file resource, then use that link in the marketing spot or front page content area. Then you delete the main block. The links still stay valid but you don't have to have the Main Menu block showing on the front page.

If you want something similar to span the whole page, try the Quick Links.

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Peter Dekker發表於2014年 03月 10日(週一) 18:10

First of all Julian: thanks for a wonderful theme! It's great looking and its release coincided with my development of a new moodle site so I took the chance of using and testing it immediately. It's good to have the theme available in the community so people can start using it and test it in different environments. That will lead to suggestions to further tweak the theme to perfection.

I have noticed a few items that could use some improvement:

1. The aspect ratio of the slideshow on a tablet differs from that on a PC/Mac in the sense that it is relatively higher. With an image that fits perfectly on the desktop computer, that image is repeated vertically on a tablet (iPad).

2. I have seen the same issue reported earlier with report tables strechting outside of the body and underneath the right column. It was suggested to edit the custom.css in the elegance theme but I can find no custom.css there.

3. When showing a list of questions (/question/edit.php), there is in my opinion too much whitespace between the question select checkbox and the question pictogram. The checkboxes are positioned a little too high (firefox, chrome), making their top invisible.

4. When viewing a question bank (/mod/quiz/edit.php), the bank is presented in a small column covering approx 1/3rd of the body width (this may be a Moodle thing rather than a template thing, I have no previous experience with Moodle). Apart from aesthetic reasons, this in addition to the white space mentioned in the previous point, makes the short question text extremely short and therefore identification difficult. I think I'd rather have the question bank list over the entire body width.

Any suggestions are welcome.

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Mary Evans發表於2014年 03月 10日(週一) 22:43

Hi Peter, I can answer Q2. The Custom CSS box should be in Appearance > Themes > Elegance > General settings

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Peter Dekker發表於2014年 03月 10日(週一) 23:37

Thank you Mary, I feel a bit stupid for not having seen that

Unfortunately, the suggestion doesn't work, tables till flow underneath the right hand clolumn

I added to Custom CSS:

.pagelayout-report .no-overflow{
overflow: auto;
}

The grade table below (grade/edit/tree/index.php?sesskey=jHLErnfzFY&showadvanced=1) is identified by table id="grade_edit_tree_table" class="generaltable advanced". Width is set in css to "100%" but changing that in Firebug doesn´t show any immediate difference.

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Mary Evans發表於2014年 03月 11日(週二) 03:33

The problem with that page is a Moodle setting and is a pain in the neck!

I am working on MDL-43284 and finding lots of strange CSS

The question bank form is set to 80% with auto margins left and right so you get that BIG gap which looks bad.

Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Peter Dekker發表於2014年 03月 11日(週二) 05:59

Mary, I found some answers to the question table issues. I added to Custom CSS (now I know how ) the following:

/* to lower the checkbox so it is completely visible */
radio input[type="radio"], .radio-inline input[type="radio"], .checkbox input[type="checkbox"], .checkbox-inline input[type="checkbox"] {
    margin-top: 5px;
}
/* to left-adjust the table columns and content*/
table#categoryquestions {
    display: inline;
}
#categoryquestions .header {
text-align: left;
}
/* to correct the repository list width for the earlier inline statement */
#page-mod-quiz-edit div.container div.generalbox {
    overflow: auto;
}

/* to correct table width of grade report */
.gradetreebox {
overflow:auto;
}

I just hope this doesn't screw up other instances.....

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Peter Dekker發表於2014年 03月 11日(週二) 07:49

Also found a solution to the question bank positioningThe first item is a change to the ' auto' setting suggested in the previous post.

/* to correct the repository list width */
#page-mod-quiz-edit div.container div.generalbox {
overflow: hidden;
}
/* to reposition question bank, will appear on top since it's the first block item defined in html */
#page-mod-quiz-edit div.quizcontents {
width: 100%;
}
.questionbankwindow.block {
width: 100%;
}
#page-mod-quiz-edit .modulespecificbuttonscontainer {
width: 400px;
}

Still need to work on the first issue: aspect ratio of slideshow on tablet.

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Mary Evans發表於2014年 03月 11日(週二) 08:41

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Brian Peat發表於2014年 03月 13日(週四) 04:00

And...so far this is the BEST Moodle theme I've used. It's got some bugs, but I'm sure over time that'll be fixed (I noticed the text editor sometimes doesn't resize correctly).

The big thing I wish this theme had though, was a switch to flip the side bar to the left side instead of the right side. I tried doing it with some CSS overrides but things went won't when I made my browser the width of a phone. Some of our students are a bit older and not used to change, so moving that side bar tends to freak them out and our current theme has it on the left.

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Małgorzata Łuczkiewicz發表於2014年 03月 18日(週二) 22:32

I have a problem with Polish letters. Thay look like different font. You can see what I meen on screeshot.

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Dariusz Idzikowski發表於2014年 04月 22日(週二) 21:11

I confirm the same problem, Polish diacritical fonts do not display correctly although they are included in font files attached to "elegance theme". is there a chance to fix it?

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Amer Child發表於2014年 03月 22日(週六) 06:10

Great theme and it rocks.

I am trying to upgrade to your latest version but I get an error that my plugin dir is not writeable. When I log into the machine I don't the directory moodledata/mdeploy/archive/ like the upgrade instructions indicated. Any suggestions? (2.6.2)

Thanks

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Gareth J Barnard發表於2014年 03月 22日(週六) 06:58

If troubleshooting here (bar forum positing): http://docs.moodle.org/26/en/Installing_add-ons#Troubleshooting, fails, then uninstall and install the new version manually.

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Amer Child發表於2014年 03月 22日(週六) 10:16

The issues is that I have made some customizations to the theme. In terms of look and feel And would like to keep them.

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Aaron Batty發表於2014年 03月 22日(週六) 14:43

This theme is just amazing. I've just moved to a new server, and I've set this as the default theme. I'm expecting oohs and ahhs.

One quick question, though: I was getting a nice transparent black footer on the custom login screen, but with the 2.6.2 version, it's become an opaque gray bar, which is nowhere near as slick. Was that on purpose?

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Julian Ridden發表於2014年 03月 22日(週六) 15:26

It was on purpose as many people complained about it.

To get it back just add this to your custom css field in the theme settings.

#page-footer {

border-top: 10px solid rgba(0,0,0,.2);

background: rgba(0,0,0,.1);

}

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Aaron Batty發表於2014年 03月 22日(週六) 16:03

Thanks!

Hmmm... That's not really the same. Darkening the background with the alpha gets me where I want to be (.3), but nothing seems to change that top border, which is now solid gray. It doesn't seem to be responding to anything I put in there.

(Feature request: Allow us to set timing on the login background slides.)

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Julian Ridden發表於2014年 03月 22日(週六) 16:40

Hmmm..it should respond. try this instead

border-top: 10px solid rgba(0,0,0,.2) !important;

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Aaron Batty發表於2014年 03月 22日(週六) 19:36

That did it!

I've fiddled with the values to get exactly what I want.

This is a stunning theme. Just gorgeous.

Please do let me know if there is a way to define the time between backgrounds on the login page. I'm afraid of just changing things; I always manage to stuff things up when I go hunting in the CSS myself.

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Amer Child發表於2014年 03月 26日(週三) 02:17

Can anyone tell me how to add a new block to the homepage when using this theme or how to add latest posts?

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Julian Ridden發表於2014年 03月 26日(週三) 07:17

This has been answered a couple of time already.

To add a block to the middle, just click and drag any block into the middle location.

The "latest posts" you see on iMoot is just Moodle's RSS block. I turned on RSS feeds from my news forum. Grabbed that feed URL and added it to Moodle's RSS block.

Julian

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Amer Child發表於2014年 03月 26日(週三) 23:01

Thanks Julian!

Is there away to adjust the size of the "More About Us", I am trying to add an HTML block with a Google Calendar IFRAME and I am only using one Marketing spot. I guess there are really 2 questions.

1) Can I make the width of the marketing spot wider?

2) Make the overall area used by "More About Us" thinner?

After looking it would appear I can do this in with css, I am just unsure what file would need to be edit.

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Amer Child發表於2014年 04月 2日(週三) 00:13

I found where this needs to be edited in moodle.css however my change to .col-md-6 has had ramifications to my login screen is there an easy way to fix my login screen or only apply my change to the More About Us (.col-md-6) section.

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Gareth J Barnard發表於2014年 04月 2日(週三) 00:26

In this case. don't change the CSS but edit the layout files and use this: http://getbootstrap.com/css/#grid as a reference to use the right class.

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Amer Child發表於2014年 04月 2日(週三) 03:33

Thanks I will have a look.

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Jean-Marc Doucet發表於2014年 04月 2日(週三) 01:25

Hi all

a little showing mistake

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Mary Evans發表於2014年 04月 2日(週三) 03:03

Hi thanks for adding an image of the problem, however, it is not clear where that section is. Can you please tell me which page it relates to?

Thanks

Mary

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Jean-Marc Doucet發表於2014年 04月 3日(週四) 05:02

Hi Mary

this 'activitie' is in the section 0 in a course (i tested with section 1)

May be is normal because Tile Course resources is ON ---> When I turn it off --> the 'activitie' moved

the text cut is the 'activitie' description (don-t show it )

For me is OK

But now a have a some trouble with the marketing spots .... impossible to align

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Amer Child發表於2014年 04月 2日(週三) 03:37

Not sure if this issue is related to the theme or configuration. When viewing a course under course menu option and click the circle i icon my description is listed twice. Does anyone know how to remove the second entry?

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Rafael Cobos發表於2014年 04月 9日(週三) 15:47

Apologies for posting the following problem in the comments section of the plugins directory for this theme:

I think this theme is wonderful, certainly much more 'modern' than the others. There is, however, one problem i've encountered: The message drop down menu at the top (next to the log in menu on the right) doesn't update once a message or notification has been read.

E.g. It will display "3 messages" and the drop down menu will show the 3 messages, however it still displays the same "3 messages" once those messages have been read.

Any ideas?

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Francis Vendrell發表於2014年 04月 16日(週三) 16:47

Hello,

I have problems with setting the content of the meta description tag (of the front page for example).

As I can see from the code of your front page site http://moodleman.net/ , the content of your meta description tag is:

The Moodleman Blog provides the latest news reviews, tips and tricks related to the Moodle LMS and the Mahara ePortfolio systems.

Is this your front page summary?

In my case, I can not make it show up in the code. (I use Release 2.6.2 (Build: 20140321) for Moodle 2.6).

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Hartmut Scherer發表於2014年 04月 16日(週三) 17:53

Hi Francis,

You can add additional HTML in Site administration -> Appearance -> Additional HTML. I got this from Mary Evans HERE. Perhaps this is what you were looking for.

With kind regards,

Hartmut

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Francis Vendrell發表於2014年 04月 16日(週三) 19:44

Hi Hartmut,

Thank you very much for your message. I was not aware of this possibility!

For the frontpage, one can add:

However for all others pages, I have not idea what to add instead of "$SITE->summary".

The command "page_title()" exists, but the command "page_description()" doesn't seem to exist!

Any other clue given will be appreciated!

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Mary Evans發表於2014年 04月 16日(週三) 20:22

Hi,

The Headings for the older themes used <h1> <?php echo $PAGE->heading ?></h1> the content of which varies from page to page. So you could, I suppose, try useing $PAGE->heading in the meta tag?

EDIT: I have just tested this. By adding the following line to the frontpage >head></head> tag ...

<meta name="content" content="<?php echo $PAGE->heading ?> ">

So depending on the page you surf to within your Moodle site, the page heading will be reflected in the meta tag.

For example:

Frontpage heading gives: <meta name="content" content="Moodle 2.6">
In a CSS & HTML Course page gives: <meta name="content" content="CSS & HTML">

I hope that helps?

Cheers

Mary

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Francis Vendrell發表於2014年 04月 16日(週三) 21:48

Hi Mary,

Thank you for your suggestion.

I just need a description meta tag for which the content should be the page description.

Does something like "$PAGE->description" or "$PAGE->page_description" exist?

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由jose m. cordero發表於2014年 04月 18日(週五) 20:16

Hola,

Por favor necesitaría ayuda. Resulta que las imagenes del Slideshow no se redimensionan de manera que en los distintos navegadores se ve de una forma diferente.

Lo he intentado con un solo slide y con varios, incluso poniendolos todos con resolución 1400x400 pero sigue sin funcionar.

Muchas gracias por su ayuda y perdón por el idioma de google.

José Manuel

Please need help. Turns out the Slideshow images not resized so that it looks different browsers differently.
I've tried with one slide and several even putting them all with resolution 1400x400 but still not working.
Thank you very much for your help and sorry for the language of google.

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Subhash Thanagraj發表於2014年 04月 23日(週三) 09:49

I have used elegance theme this is working all section awesome, but did not working for quiz timer left block in while attend the quiz test, so please let me know, how to put in timer in elegance quiz test page

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Kevin Smith發表於2014年 04月 26日(週六) 05:14

Hi Julian,

I love the template but I do have a question regarding the slideshow. What is the best resolution for the slide show for any screen resolution? I uploaded a banner and it was duplicated on a smaller "box" screen to fit the area. What do you recommend?

Thanks

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Richard Oelmann發表於2014年 04月 26日(週六) 06:31

If you check the Elegance theme settings for the slideshow, there is a choice between the smaller image and full size (banner) I think the ones I've used are about 1400x280. But the 'best' size for you for a banner image in the slide show may depend on the most common resolution that your users will be veiwing it on - if you're in a computer lab with big monitors, then most of your users may be on 1600px width screens, or an older one with 1024px monitors.

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Sebastián Pizarro Cortés發表於2014年 05月 2日(週五) 01:24

Dear there is a problem at the time the student takes the test. The clock that indicates the time remaining to the end of the test is not display.

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Ben Furse發表於2014年 05月 13日(週二) 10:39

Fantastic theme! I love the login screen and the quick links section!

For the life of me, I can't figure out how to change the spacing under the "Labels" in my course. There's just too much space for me under them.

Look at the red arrows in my screen shot. Any way to bring the subsequent resource closer to the "Label".

Thanks!

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Richard Thomas發表於2014年 05月 14日(週三) 10:56

Excellent theme. We like that it is very unMoodle like.

Is it possible to set the slideshow to loop rather than slide back to Slide 1?

Thanks

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Alberto Ferreira發表於2014年 05月 20日(週二) 03:25

Excellent theme!!!

How Can I use a bigger logo? 350x150

TIA

Alberto

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Adam Preston發表於2014年 06月 6日(週五) 21:26

Great work here! I am a new Moodle user/developer and everything is working great for me but I am getting a 404 error on /theme/image.php/elegance/theme (see screenshot)

Line 326 is this

I am using 2.6.2 (Build: 20140414) of the theme and '2.7+ (Build: 20140605) of Moodle

a screenshot

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Mary Evans發表於2014年 06月 6日(週五) 21:35

Which file is that line in as it does not make sense?

Line 326 is this

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Adam Preston發表於2014年 06月 6日(週五) 21:50

According to that error in my browser, it seemed that the problem was coming from line 326. Then I looked at what was on line 326 and that was what I found. I don't know, I could be off base here. Anyway, I was just thinking, is this because I am running Moodle 2.7? The weird thing is here is that everything else is working like a dream.

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Greg Egan發表於2014年 06月 24日(週二) 10:51

Hi Julian and everyone

First thanks for this theme Julian, I love so many aspects of it. However I've noticed an issue with the category tiles at a couple of sites that I support. In some of the subcategories the tiles are replaced by some code as shown in this screenshot. Has anyone seen this and can give a clue as to how to fix?

Thanks

Greg Egan

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Mary Evans發表於2014年 06月 24日(週二) 16:56

I'm on the case...will be back later to report. In the mean time can you tell me if you have made any changes to the code, especially the settings.php or lib.php for this theme?

Also is this a direct download from the Moodle plugins directory? I need to be working with the version you have.

thanks

Mary

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Greg Egan發表於2014年 06月 25日(週三) 13:56

Thanks Mary, no there haven't been any code changes. It's a direct download from the Moodle plugins directory.

Best regards

Greg

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Danny Wahl發表於2014年 06月 25日(週三) 07:59

Hi, this has been reported before, and I haven't had a chance to fix it yet.

Basically your category IDs are out of the range of the available options (1-20) so when it populates the code with your cat. ID and then looks for that setting value, it doesn't exist...

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Greg Egan發表於2014年 06月 25日(週三) 15:13

Ok thank you Danny

I'm understanding this to mean that category icons won't work at this stage if I've got more than 20 categories?

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Danny Wahl發表於2014年 06月 25日(週三) 15:56

not necessarily- just if the id # is greater than 20 (they may not be sequential)

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Gareth J Barnard發表於2014年 06月 25日(週三) 20:18

Hi all,

Looking at the code there is provision in the CSS for 30 categories: https://github.com/moodleman/moodle-theme_elegance/blob/master/style/categories.css#L162-L280 - however, the setting: https://github.com/moodleman/moodle-theme_elegance/blob/master/settings.php#L1329-L1358 and the replacing code: https://github.com/moodleman/moodle-theme_elegance/blob/master/lib.php#L104-L113 was written for 20!

Therefore, this: https://github.com/moodleman/moodle-theme_elegance/blob/master/settings.php#L1329-L1358 and this: https://github.com/moodleman/moodle-theme_elegance/blob/master/lib.php#L104-L113 needs to be adjusted for 30 categories.

Or, better still it is conceivable for the theme to append the correct custom CSS for an almost infinite number of categories with a little bit of thought.

Cheers,

Gareth

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Danny Wahl發表於2014年 06月 26日(週四) 06:59

yes, I hope to change this to a text field where you drop the ID in, and have the setting populate it in the CSS. So I won't be expanding this to 30, but I'll do a long term fix in the near future.

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Johanna Silva發表於2014年 06月 28日(週六) 03:28

Hello

I have a couple of questions related to icons appeareance:

1) The quicklinks icons shows to me as full colored circles with no icon inside. I tried to change the colors palette, but no luck. They appear OK in Eplorer but no so in Chrome.
Of course I have updated Chrome.. But still the same thing.

2) Also, if anyone can explain to me how could I change the "My Courses" default animated icons to personalized images.

Any help will be welcome.

Regards. Johanna

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由clément hoarau發表於2014年 06月 30日(週一) 18:38

Hi Johanna

I also meet the same problem with the icon appearence. They don't appear on chrome or mozilla, and on IE they appear. Hope there will be a answer to this problem soon.

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Απάντηση: Elegance Theme Released

由Nick Ntalias發表於2014年 08月 29日(週五) 15:08

Hi Julian.

Congratulations for elegance theme. It is very

Could you please explain me the steps in order to make "My courses" visible in "My Home" page as discribed in your post?:

The MyPage has been customised to be more visual (assuming you are using the new Course Files feature in course settings)

What does "new Course Files feature" mean?

I would appreciate your help as "My Courses" (block?) makes my home page more "elegant"!!!

Thanks in advance,

Nick.

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Re: Απάντηση: Elegance Theme Released

由Juls Allen發表於2015年 03月 19日(週四) 14:23

Hi Nick did you can make this hapened?

Could you please explain me the steps in order to make "My courses" visible in "My Home" page as discribed in your post?:

I'm using elegance template.

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Ivan Lam發表於2014年 09月 14日(週日) 05:13

How, I am a moodle newbie. I like your new theme very much but can you please kindly show me how to use your theme with my academy's moodle? I have absolutely no idea how to work with moodle's setup.

Thanks.

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Re: Elegance Theme Released

由Emma Richardson發表於2015年 03月 20日(週五) 07:28

Install the theme under Plugins/Install Plugins. Then go to appearance/themes and set it under Select Theme. Moodle has a lot of very good documentation - you really should read it first!

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