Hey Marek,

Did not install Root Candy for a long time now.
Great work, it is getting there.

Sorry I have some critical remarks concerning Root Candy.
At the moment I switched to Pixture as Admin Theme, and after trying RootCandy again, I will stick with Pixture.
Why?

Well one factor is: In the Drupal Admin Section, lots of Space is wasted, making for long forms and lots of Scrolling. A solution is to make Fonts smaller and reduce Paddings and Margins. Up to recently I used Aquasoft, for it was best in that respect.

So to make the Screens more usable, please take more care of taking this into consideration.

Also you should thing about weight given to items by Font color. You mostly leave everything black, so nothing is weighted against each other. Even the base color blue is hardly made use of in Headings.

With all the work you put into this project, it might pay to rework this, cause the admin screen needs to be but one thing (apart from being pretty): clean and easy to grasp and find everything. Don't follow the bad example of Garland, which I still believe is no good as Admin Theme.

There are also a lot of good points in your work, sorry for concentrating on critique.

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Hi Thomas,
thanks for your valuable feedback,
I'll try to rework it a little bit based on your feedback, all are good points tho!

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eigentor’s picture

rock on, candyman ;)

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Version: 6.x-1.0-rc3 » 6.x-1.x-dev

I have scaled down the fonts and a bit of work has been done on this field :)

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If you want you can test latest version at http://sotak.co.uk/rootcandy - login as demo and pw demo and then navigate to /admin

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Status: Active » Needs review
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Ah, looks better. Still you could go down to 11 px for a lot of things. Especially in large tables like the /admin/content node list or the blocks page table one does not need 12 px.

Maybe you could increase the zebra effect on tables a bit more, this has close to no contrast now.

As I am a bit lazy and do not provide mockups myself (which I see as mandatory when criticizing someone else's layout :) )
I don't want to go into too much detail.
Ah I see you have started working on a real Dashboard. Great!

Do you have also removed the "Navigation" Menu which appeared in the bottom left corner before?
Good! I hated that :)

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Thanks Thomas,
Not sure which "Navigation" menu you refer to? The dafult drupal block?

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Yes, the default drupal Navigation Block.

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ah right, well you can disable that block by yourself tho ;)

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Status: Needs review » Fixed

Improved the zebra effect and highlight, now more stronger :)

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

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