When using this theme, and editing a view i cannot see some text in the views settings page. when you click a link to modify the settings, the settings display below and are visible but the text and background are both white so you are unable to read the text normally. I have to select the text or select all on the page in order to read it. I have not noticed this issue anywhere else.

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#14 slate-views-admin.patch1 KBjwolf
acquia_slate_views.png53.93 KBluckysmack

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jweberg’s picture

jweberg commented

+1 I am having the same issue.

jwolf’s picture

jwolf commented
Assigned: Unassigned » jwolf

OK. We'll clean this up

luckysmack’s picture

luckysmack commented

thanks! much appreciated

grendzy’s picture

grendzy commented

I thought this would be a quick CSS tweak but the AJAX makes it a bit elusive.

FYI if you're looking for a quick workaround, disabling javascript makes Views usable. Or I suppose you could use a different admin theme.

stephthegeek’s picture

stephthegeek commented

While we'll be addressing this in a future release because keeping as much of /admin usable as possible is a good thing, we'd strongly recommend using an administration theme. Admin pages other than blocks/theme configuration and end user pages (node/add, etc) are not officially supported.

cpelham’s picture

cpelham commented

As theming experts, do you guys recommend a particular theme for admin? I have longed used Garland just because it was there really.

jbrauer’s picture

jbrauer commented

I've also frequently used Garland. However Root Candy is definitely worth taking a look at http://drupal.org/project/rootcandy. It is designed to be an administration and while I haven't looked at the latest versions I had pretty favorable thoughts of the earlier versions.

wretched sinner - saved by grace’s picture

wretched sinner - saved by grace commented
Status: Active » Postponed

Another recommendation for rootcandy - I am using it with my site and makes things easier.

luckysmack’s picture

luckysmack commented

i have always kept the general and admin themes the same so i would have a general idea of what my site looks like as im working on it. But i have not tried the rootcandy theme, i will give it w whirl.

merlinofchaos’s picture

merlinofchaos commented

I would welcome patches to Views to make the UI more strict about colors so that it works on a larger variety of themes. At this point, the colors that Views uses should be pretty much defined and the rest of the theme can do whatever, but Views UI itself (everything within the tabs box) should have set colors and font sizes).

kleinmp’s picture

kleinmp commented

I've also noticed this issue when using the popups module while managing fields.

Until the next release of this theme comes out, I'm simply adding some css to style.css in a sub theme of acquia slate. This fixes the views issue and part of the popups issue for me. (Some of the popup text was a tough to grab using css.)

#views-ajax-form {
  color: #494949;
}

#content-field-overview th {
  color: #494949;	
}
mcsolas’s picture

mcsolas commented

I tried rootcandy theme as suggested in this thread but it was hard to go back and forth to that theme from time to time.

Thanks for posting that css workaround... I just installed it and it made the relevant text legible... Im going to use that for the time being.

Still interested to see if this one gets touched up for a future release.

esmerel’s picture

esmerel commented

I hear the Views maintainer also agrees with this recommendation, having seen it when his wife went "Ack.":)

jwolf’s picture

jwolf commented
Status: Postponed » Fixed
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new slate-views-admin.patch1 KB

uh oh! We don't want Mrs. Chaos to go "Ack!" ;)

Attached is a patch to fix this in Slate. The fix aint pretty but it works for now.

Committed and available in the new release. > 6.x-1.2

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

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