Hey there,

I'm in love with this theme. Clear, clean, elegant and fast. A lot more appealing than Burnt. There's one thing missing that Burnt does support, though: a horizontal menu bar along the top. Burnt's implementation of two-level menu up there is a big draw; a menu bar saves a lot of horizontal space in the content area. Any chance of this feature appearing in a future update?

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john.karahalis commented

Thanks alot for the feedback!

If I understand correctly, you would like to request a horizontal menu along the top of the website.

Try navigating to admin > build > blocks and moving "Primary Links" (or any other menu) to the "Header" section of the website. The links will display in the header horizontally.

Is that what you are looking for, or is the feature you are describing more along the lines of what this theme uses:
http://drupal.org/node/212043

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Osfer commented

It's strange, but your suggestion isn't working for me; moving the Navigation menu (the only menu in which I have any content) causes the menu tree to be rendered vertically, as if it were in the sidebar. I don't have any modules active that affect the display of menus.

The top-right tabs in the Internet Jobs theme you mentioned (not unlike the Garland theme) is certainly interesting, but I think it would only intrude on the clean, open aesthetic of your theme!

What I meant to say was that Burnt had a built-in horizontal menu that, regardless of the positioning of the menu blocks (or even their visibility), would pull top-level items from the menu specified as Primary Links in the theme configuration, and second-level items from the menu specified as Secondary Links in theme configuration. I find this to be a very strong navigation system, well-organized, flexible, and economic in its use of screen real estate. The top bar shows the available top-level menu items, one of which is currently active, and below it its child items are visible

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john.karahalis commented

Ahh, you're right. It seems that the Navigation menu renders vertically in the header rather than horizontally. I haven't taken a very in-depth look at this issue yet, but it seems to be related to the fact that the Navigation menu has some items which are expanded. My Primary Links menu, on the other hand, has no expanded items and so renders horizontally in the header. Thanks for the heads up.

I will be sure to look into this issue as well as the Burnt behavior which you described. We at the OPL are currently very busy working on other Drupal contributions (2 modules and an installation profile), so it may take a week or two before we can release a second beta of Toasted. But we are very glad to be working with the community and are enthusiastic to attend to the needs and requests of Drupal users.

Thanks again for the interest in Toasted and for your suggestions, we'll be sure to work on them as soon as possible.

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Osfer commented

Thanks for looking into it. I understand that you want to avoid feature creep in what is supposed to be a clean, simple interface, of course!

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john.karahalis commented
Status: Active » Postponed

Postponed for a final 1.0 release of Toasted.

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john.karahalis commented

What I meant to say was that Burnt had a built-in horizontal menu that, regardless of the positioning of the menu blocks (or even their visibility), would pull top-level items from the menu specified as Primary Links in the theme configuration, and second-level items from the menu specified as Secondary Links in theme configuration. I find this to be a very strong navigation system, well-organized, flexible, and economic in its use of screen real estate. The top bar shows the available top-level menu items, one of which is currently active, and below it its child items are visible
-Osfer

As promised, I now have some more time to work on this issue. I've been doing some research into this, but am unable to find the functionality you are describing in Burnt. Would you be able to provide a screenshot?

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Osfer commented

Hi there!

I must be losing my mind. I could have *sworn*.

Burnt provides a horizontal top menu, with the items spaced from left to right above a dividing line. I must be mistaking Burnt for another theme, because as I recall, selecting a menu item that had children would cause those child items to apear horizontally, in a different color, *below* the line...

I'll look into this, see which theme I was confused with, and provide a screenshot of that!