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November 10, 2007 - 12:28am

Flock Themes

Does anyone know when they will be released? Just wondering because I'm starting to see blur and gray spots every time I look away from Flock =]


Casanova

November 10, 2007 - 12:29am

hmmm, as they always say, later in '07. =]

ronocdh

November 28, 2007 - 5:21am

Some themes would be really nice... I like how polished the latest release was, but not including basic stuff like a few themes kind of betrays the air of customization that made me fell in love with Firefox.

I know you like your theme guys, but I need choices! For instance, horizontal space management in the bookmarks toolbar is horrible.

Evan Hamilton

December 4, 2007 - 2:33pm

Hey folks,

We just recently put up the first version of our Flock theming guide at http://developer.flock.com/wiki/Create_a_New_Theme

This has been specifically sent to a small group of themers who are very interested in Flock theming, so hopefully we'll have some great themes from them soon.

In the future we also hope to include a bonus theme built into Flock's theme manager, but that will probably land after 1.1.

I'll keep you all updated as the themes roll in!

Evan Hamilton
Community Ambassador

evan at flock dot com
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blog.evanhamilton.com

Pablo Sambuco

February 7, 2008 - 5:37pm

I've just uploaded to my deviant a dark grey flock theme, it's working perfectly on v1.0.8. I haven´t tested it on the new beta.
The theme is here
Hope you like it

Greetings

Pablo Sambuco
Flock user =D

gr4n1t3

February 9, 2008 - 11:04am

ummm... downloaded the zip... unzipped it as a jar file then moved it to a new folder called dark grey as in "C:\Program Files\Flock\flock\dark grey" and it doesnt know its there... any ideas?

ronocdh

February 11, 2008 - 2:11pm

Granite, open up the Add-Ons menu and click on Themes. Then you can simply drag the .jar onto this pane, and the theme will install. Remember to double-click it to "activate" it, then restart Flock and you're good to go. While I don't think it's perfect, Pablo's theme does suit me better than Flock's default. Thanks again, Pablo!

Simko

February 12, 2008 - 10:01am

You have to put the jar file in your profile/flock/extensions directory
inding your Profile directory:

For win32 systems:
*C:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\Flock\Browser\Profiles\\

You may need to set so you can see hidden directory to gain access to application data.

Hope it help some.

pablosambuco

February 13, 2008 - 4:56am

Just like ronocdh said...
click the link, open the .zip or unzip it to you desktop or where you want to.
then go to the Tools->Add-Ons menu on flock. It will open the add-ons dialog (just a little window displaying your currently installed add-ons).
Now, drag and drop the .jar file into that dialog. you're done.
Select the dark gray as your theme and restart flock

I hope my english to be understandable... I speak natively spanish =D

See you

Evan Hamilton

February 13, 2008 - 11:36am

Nice work Pablo, that's awesome!

FYI, we're currently working on getting theme support onto extensions.flock.com, so we can't put it up quite yet...but we will definitely let you know once we support that.

Drop me a line and I will shoot you a shirt...you definitely deserve to be called Flockstar. :)

Evan Hamilton
Community Ambassador

evan at flock dot com
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blog.evanhamilton.com

pablosambuco

February 20, 2008 - 4:56am

I'd love to have one of those!!
just tell me what should I do: pablosambuco (a) gmail (dot) com

see you!

Dana

March 19, 2008 - 3:20pm

anyone else have any for 1.1?

LakotaGhost

March 21, 2008 - 5:23pm

Not I, guess we have to wait, and I hope some nice themes come along soon.

Nate

March 23, 2008 - 8:13am

Hi. I'd be interested in making a theme, but the default theme that's given in the tutorial seems to be slightly broken in the current version of flock. Is there somewhere we can download the latest version of the theme in jar format, or at least a working tutorial theme?

Thanks.

Evan Hamilton

March 25, 2008 - 4:08pm

Hey Nate,

We're reworking the architecture of the theme right now, which should make it a bit easier to theme. This should land with our Firefox3-powered version of Flock, later this year.

Evan Hamilton
Community Ambassador

evan at flock dot com
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blog.evanhamilton.com

pablosambuco

April 8, 2008 - 7:09pm

Hi to all!
I've updated my theme, now it works on 1.1!!
Download it here

Hey Nate
Brij sent me this 2 links, take a look
Windows/Linux Version
Mac Version

See you

Nate

April 9, 2008 - 6:23pm

Awesome. That should help a lot.

NikT

April 15, 2008 - 4:34am

Hi folks,

I've spent a fair amount of time making sure this one works with no black-on-black text... the style sheets in Flock are quite complicated, but with good version management, customizing wasn't that tricky.

Thanks, developers, for an awesome theme, but a lot of use nerds prefer it blaaack..

The default 1.1.1 Flock theme, modified to black by NikT.

Preview image:
http://nikt.zog.net.au/flock111blackdublin.png

Download:
http://nikt.zog.net.au/drugcrew/plugins/phpBB3/download/file.php?id=102

INSTRUCTIONS
1. Unzip the jar file to somewhere you can drag/drop from
2. In Flock, select tools,Add-ons
3. Drag the .jar file into the list of themes
4. Press the "use theme" button
5. Press the "restart Flock" button
6. Did I mention? Enjoy 8)

NikT

April 15, 2008 - 4:36am

if the link above doesn't work, try
http://nikt.zog.net.au/blackdublin-nikt.zip

LakotaGhost

April 15, 2008 - 4:20pm

>I've just uploaded to my deviant a dark grey flock theme, it's working perfectly >on v1.0.8. I haven´t tested it on the new beta.
>The theme is here
>Hope you like it

>Greetings

>Pablo Sambuco
>Flock user =D

I installed this theme today in the newest flock and it works alright or seems to. This is Version 1.1.2 I am using.

LakotaGhost

April 15, 2008 - 5:48pm

Hi

Tried to install this theme in version 1.1.2 and it would not work (http://nikt.zog.net.au/blackdublin-nikt.zip), it looked like it installed, but would not, it stopped responding and caused problems with the browser. Something to do with the install script I beleive, not sure, all I know is it would not install and stop responding. Now all the themes on firefox (that did not work well or at all) would install but not display correctly for me at least, not in this version. The others that I did not find on firefox website and found here would stop responding in the middle of trying to install.

Paul-JC

April 15, 2008 - 5:52pm

just installed the dark grey theme and works great... looks nice too!

thanks
Paul

pablosambuco

April 15, 2008 - 7:40pm

Nice work NikT!!

NikT

April 15, 2008 - 9:31pm

Thanks pablo - so it installed ok for you?

I tested it quite thoroughly - it takes a while to install - at one point warning the script is taking a long time to complete, but if you tell it to keep going, it should install fine.

This was tested on 1.1.1.

LakotaGhost

April 16, 2008 - 7:11am

Hi NikT

I finally got it to install in version 1.1.2 and you did very well, quite nice, but I must tell you, it took 1/2 hour or so to do it. This perhaps was the most stubborn install for themes I have ever encountered, but worth it I think. Is there any way to speed up such things or is it just that the script does not like computers *smile*... ??

Thanks
Ivan

pablosambuco

April 16, 2008 - 7:37am

The theme installed fine on 1.1c (I use this version at work)
It needed a couple of restarts (less than 1/2 hour!! 5 min perhaps), but finally I've got it working
Certanly there is some issue with the install script, it installs a Mozilla (incompatible) theme that I've had to uninstall.

NikT

April 17, 2008 - 4:05am

Thanks for the awesome feedback peoples..

When starting work on this theme, I was just fiddling and a bit distracted.. I'll try to go over it soon and see if I can spot where the foul path lies.. i'll post a new version here within 7 days (I hope).

i'm glad you like the theme - thanks Dublin's original author, Brij - your base theme is what really made this great.

foridea

April 22, 2008 - 2:33am

thanks the knowledge became useful

The Icon

April 24, 2008 - 2:26pm

great theme NikT the only problem I've found with it is while right clicking
You can't see a most of the list and have to "mouse over", don't know if this is because i'm on a Mac or what.

http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/8416/picture2ey7.png

Armorbeast

May 3, 2008 - 10:51pm

One reason I still use Firefox more than any other has to do with themes. I am glad to finally have one theme for Flock (lol) and its pretty good but when will there be others and why isn't this one up on your official page as I installed it without doing any of those complicated stepped...just opened the downloaded file and dragged it over like initially told in the thread. I tried to make one but its beyond me. Not very good with code or I would help you guys out.

rayleigh

May 10, 2008 - 11:30am

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Hi I would like to show you a 'CSS theme' that I created for my own pleasure.
I tried to it to look like Vista styles, and it shrink all the wasteful space that the original theme it has.

All that you have to do to have this theme is to install stylish extension and after that install the following stylish script at:

http://userstyles.org/styles/7130

You can preview there the theme. Sorry for my english.
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pablosambuco

July 31, 2008 - 8:18am

Hi there!
I've updated the Dark Grey theme. It's working on Sulfur/2.0b3pre
I didn't try to use it on 1.2

Download it here!

I'm waiting for your comments!
Bug reports, same link

See you

Your Name

August 23, 2008 - 2:27am

hello pablo, yes I always get corrupt file by java after the successful download of your theme, I guess I will wait, excellent theme. and great job Bobby

bobby

August 23, 2008 - 2:35am

yes I wrote the last about the java and corrupt file, so I really do not know where the download went (downloaded 4 time to no avail) but great theme, and I am just a average user of the computer hopefully flock can direct me how to get this theme, when its ready, Bobby

pablosambuco

August 23, 2008 - 6:47am

Hi Bobby,

Download the .jar file to you desktop or where you want to.
then go to the Tools->Add-Ons menu on flock. It will open the add-ons dialog (just a little window displaying your currently installed add-ons).
Now, drag and drop into that dialog. you're done.
Select the dark gray as your theme and restart flock

robert belcastro

August 24, 2008 - 12:50am

Okay, love the theme, I will give it a shot, I also have flock2 b2, I will let you know how it went, thank you Bobby

Bobby/ robert belcastro

August 24, 2008 - 1:05am

just beautiful, what can I say, thank you , it took little time to figure it out, sorta a basic computer user, but it work, thank you once again. Bobby

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