Comments on: Pitivi release getting positive feedback

By: tobias

tobias — Fri, 22 May 2009 19:02:02 +0000

Nice program, but the website is damn ugly, sorry. But you can improve it very easily.
1. Use Agave[1] to select a color theme.
2. Use a sans-serif font[2] for the headlines
3. Use a dark text with light background
4. Remove the round corners, they look ugly
5. Make screen-shots without the border around the program window. Gimp has an option for that.

[1] http://home.gna.org/colorscheme/
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serif

By: Vax

Vax — Fri, 22 May 2009 18:16:20 +0000

Those rounded corner images are pretty poor looking. You might as well use -moz-border-radius and -webkit-border-radius CSS properties to your main table. A -khtml version probably exists too.

By: uraeus

uraeus — Fri, 22 May 2009 16:22:17 +0000

@Marius: Thanks for the website fixes, they are all added now.

By: Marius Gedminas

Marius Gedminas — Fri, 22 May 2009 15:58:36 +0000

To get rid of vertical jumping on hover, add

border-bottom: 4px solid white;
padding-bottom: 2px;

to #miniflex a:link, #miniflex a:visited

By: Marius Gedminas

Marius Gedminas — Fri, 22 May 2009 15:56:14 +0000

To get rid of the horizontal scrollbar I had to change the width of #miniflex to be less than 100% *or* set the horizontal padding of #miniflex to 0 instead of 10px.

Which is weird, as far as I understand padding should be included inside the width, unless you’re using MSIE 6, but I have Firefox here…

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 22 May 2009 15:55:03 +0000

Well, you could share the LWN article link with your blog readers. LWN would not mind.

By: uraeus

uraeus — Fri, 22 May 2009 15:54:05 +0000

Hmm, not sure what the horizontal scrollbar issue is, my screen and browser is much the same. As for the jumping I
got that too, but I was unsure of how I should best fix it and in the end I preferred getting the site up instead of fiddling with that
smallish issue.

By: Marius Gedminas

Marius Gedminas — Fri, 22 May 2009 15:50:30 +0000

And when I wrote “not feeling guilt”, I meant “*now* feeling guilt”. Gaah.

By: Marius Gedminas

Marius Gedminas — Fri, 22 May 2009 15:48:30 +0000

I admit not having seen the old version of the website, but the new one has some small issues in Firefox 3:

* there are both horizontal and vertical scroll bars since a bit of the whitespace sticks out somewhere (my screen is 1280×800).

* when you move your mouse over the menu items, the block of text below jumps up and down

Since I’m not feeling guilt for offering criticism where none was asked, I’ll spend at least five minutes fiddling with the CSS to see if I can offer a patch.