In my experience (UK/Scottish English) pet peeve and pet hate are roughly equivalent, with perhaps hate being stronger than peeve:
David Scotson
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It's funny you should mention link colors, I just decided yesterday to make all link colors the same, unchanged by clicking them, in my themes.
The rationale is that Moodle is mostly dynamic. Forums, Wikis etc. are clearly dynamic and even though you may have visited them once, that's not really a useful bit of information in the same way as if you were looking through a long list of static web pages, images or PDF files etc.
(As an aside, I know some software tries to change the URL every time dynamic content gets changed but I've always found that a bit of a hack)
Similarly, a lot of the links in Moodle are more like application controls in a desktop application. Think how many times you click on 'forums' or 'log in' and how useless it is to know that you've clicked it once (in the last short while, on that machine, using that browser). Bear in mind that the educational focus of Moodle combined with it's nature as a web application somewhat assumes that students will be accessing it from a variety of machines, both at home and various labs/classrooms/computer clusters in the hosting institution.
In certain circumstances having links of different colours, for possibly obscure reasons, could even be confusing or at least distracting. I used to try and seperate out the Moodle infrastructure links from the content links but I'm not sure it's worth it anymore, particularly as you can easily use such Moodle-links within your content.
As you say it depends on whether hating something leads you improve it or otherwise do something constructive to change the situation:
Hi,
I think someone else has reported this problem before. Does the screenshot in the linked forum post seem similar to what you're experiencing? Ideally I'd need to see a screenshot and know the exact version of browser(s) that you see this problem in.
On the other hand, I've just posted a new theme called K2, basically a sequel to Kubrick, which I'm fairly sure won't have this problem.
I will continue to work on Kubrick and fix problems (particularly as it shares much of it's code with K2) but right now my enthusiasm is aimed towads K2 and helping the people who want to build new themes on top of it.
