I started to user dc with forum, so I needed kind of an "integration" module. I wrote one up and posted about it here: http://commons.acquia.com/wiki/using-forums-drupal-commons

In doing that I also combined the silver_bells and boxy styles to make one that looks good w/ the default drupal commons theme.

You can find that here: https://github.com/that0n3guy/drupal_commons_af

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Title: Good "drupal commons" matching theme » Contributed style to match Drupal Commons theme
Component: Styles » Documentation
Status: Active » Needs work

I had a quick look at it. I don't have Drupal Commons so it's hard to tell what it looks like when it's in the theme it's designed for but it looks nice on its own. I found a few issues:

  • You have the old folder icon names in the CSS so it's bleeding through the folder icons from Naked and getting double images
  • Since it's based on Silver Bells, you should set that as the parent and only include changed CSS.
  • No need to include the images (or the calling CSS for them) since they look to be the same ones Silver Bells is using.
  • Your readme recommends copying this to the module directory, which is bad practice since you'll lose it on updates. The correct way is explained in the section "Telling Advanced Forum about your style" in http://drupal.org/node/512116

Is that download location a permanent spot? Otherwise it would be good to attach the tarball to this issue. I'll add it to the list on http://drupal.org/node/317274 .

Thanks!

Michelle

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that0n3guy commented
Status: Needs work » Needs review

Michelle,

Wow, thanks for all the input. I did all that stuff and moved it to my sts_commons_forum module. Thats very nice :). Cleans up everything alot.

Its new location is here: https://github.com/that0n3guy/sts_commons_forum. It will permanent since I'm now using it on a good sized project.

Thanks,
Peter

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Great! I'll have to have a look at it later. Need to make some more progress on my site for the rest of the day.

Michelle

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that0n3guy commented

I've got it up and running on a group site now... 300+ member. Its private otherwise I would link to it for you.

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Nice! Hope they are enjoying it. :)

Michelle

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bserem commented

How is this style supposed to work with a simple drupal installation with advanced_forums?
Do I need to install the sts_commons_forum or do I just copy the style somewhere in my filesystem?
Tried copying it under modules/advanced_forums/styles/drupal_commons_af and it didn't work (forum pages were empty)
I didn't try to enable sts_commons_forum though because I was testing on a production site...

It works fine, although I'm using it with Garland and some css tweaks could make it even nicer.
for anyone interested:
It requires the latest 2.x-dev version of advanced_forum (which also seems to work fine and as I see it has some nice new stuff) and you just copy it under the styles directory.

You can see a live-site here: http://www.tio.gr/forum (site and forums are in greek)

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Status: Needs review » Fixed

Forgot to change the status on this when I added it to the docs.

Thanks!

Michelle

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.