Patrick Malley

Hello Dan,

This would actually be a 2-column theme. One column containing your main content, and another column containing your sideblocks. I don't recommend using a left-column only hack. In fact, I don't recommend using a right-column only hack either. I think that since Moodle doesn't natively support themers to make this decision, then we shouldn't really hack things just to make it happen.

More specifically, though, if you were to hide the right column from your users, you would have to display it to your teachers when editing is turned on so that they could see the blocks menu. This would be quite confusing since Moodle would still allow them to place their sideblocks in the right column. They might place something there and then wonder why it can't be viewed when they turn editing off.

Furthermore, I believe that the "Turn Editing On" link is in the right column on the front page. So, if you were to hide that column, you would lock yourself out from editing that page.

To do this really is a hack.

To change the color of the link when it's not being hovered over:

.breadcrumb a:link {
color:#000;
}

To change the color of the link when it is hovered over:

.breadcrumb a:hover {
color:#000;
}

To change the color of the link when it is not hovered over, but has been followed before:

.breadcrumb a:visited {
color:#000;
}

This would, of course, go into your themes CSS file.

Thanks for the input, Dan.

Regarding your question, I haven't really spent much time looking at the Tango icon set to say whether they are dated or not. I do know that they are a heck of a lot better than what we currently have.

I'd personally prefer we went with the Silk set from http://famfamfam.com as I think they're a bit more subdued, but understand the argument that Tango is a project with several authors while Silk is developed by one guy.

There is an issue in the tracker (http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-14361) to use the Tango iconset as the default Moodle icons in 2.0. It looks promising, but one question that came up was whether it would be best to change the Moodle icon naming scheme to the Tango naming specifications, OR rename all of the Tango icons we decide to use to the traditional Moodle naming scheme.

So, the question is: Do we rename the Tango icons or do we rename the Moodle icons?

It makes sense, if we are moving to use the Tango icons, to use their naming scheme. However, if we rename the core Moodle icons, all themes that use custom icons will need to do some renaming of their own to be recognized by the core code.

My thoughts are as follows:

Themes are going to break in bigger ways than this when moving to Moodle 2.0, so I don't see this as a major issue. Furthermore, I don't think there are enough themes out there using custom icon sets to justify not making the change IF the change is for the greater good. Furtherfurthermore, my bet is that most people who are using custom icon sets are doing so because they find the current set unattractive. This change should bring them back into the fold.

MDL-18872

Your thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Hi Tiffany,

I've seen this happen once on a client theme that didn't use the right column. Can you provide a link to your site for testing, and if not open to the public, can you send me a temporary login and username via private message?