Hi David,
Congratulations on your efforts to develop the Kubrick theme for Moodle & for making it available. I especially like: the 2 column design, the 800x600 resolution taken into account, the overall sleek design.
I am currently designing my own theme, partly based on Kubrick, i.e. using 2 columns and a fixed width design with a body 760 pixels wide.
I have met with problems with some content overflowing out of the fixed 760px width. Some are unavoidable, others are due to current limits (or bugs) of Moodle 1.5 itself. Here is an example (with a workaround).
Glossary -> Add a new entry (Edit)
The two help links (+icons) to the left of the text editing htmlarea block are unfortunately located within a table cell with a "nowrap" attribute. This means that that table cell will always be as wide as necessary to accomodate the longest of the two help links' text. The problem is hardly noticeable in English: Write carefully and About the HTML editor almost fit in, especially at the fairly small font selected for links in the Kubrick theme.
However, in other languages, the translated strings can be significantly longer, e.g. À propos de l'éditeur WYSIWYG in French, which means that the htmlarea block is pushed to the right, overflowing the 760px-wide body... This is not dramatic, but it's not very aesthetic either.
Workaround
First of all, that "nowrap" attribute should not be there in the Moodle code, it's useless and deprecated.
In the meantime, it's possible to over-ride it in the CSS with this simple class coding:
.entrybox td {
white-space: normal;
}
See the result on attached screen dump 2
All the best,
Joseph