Carbon Theme

I've developed Carbon theme for personal needs for Gallery 2. It is based on Matrix theme.

Special thanks to Pedro for allowing me to use some of his icons. I have developed this theme inspired by PG theme. But it is not based on PG theme.

08-04-2006
A new version of Carbon theme for Gallery 2.1 is available.

- Now the 'Sidebar' link both shows and hides the sidebar, rather than just showing it.
- Replaced the close icon of the sidebar with a new slide-out icon.
- Fixed the issue with EXIF popup window.

Any suggestions and comments are appreciated.

Note: Questions about Comments, Album description, Frames etc are not belong to this forum. If you have this kind of questions, please, first search in the related forums. If you cannot find any answer, just send me a private message. I will do my best.

Download: http://www.mincel.com/carbon/
Demo: http://www.mincel.com/gallery/

Looks pretty nice! I was going to day don't forget to link to it on http://codex.gallery2.org/index.php/Gallery2:UserContributions#Themes but you already have. Cool!

detailed explanations of the updates needed are available at http://codex.gallery2.org/index.php/Gallery2:API_Changes_Since_The_Last_Release

EDIT-
Figured it out. Thanks

Yeah the Carbon theme is my favorite, my I get the incompatible errors also. The API changes list is way over my head and gives me a nasty headache trying to figure it out. If anyone has modified it to get it working, please do post it or the changes needed. Thx.

Great! Can't wait

Edit: I just found out that I had to install a frame modul. Works fine now.

Hi Mincel,

I also use your carbon theme. It is my favorite one. Excellent work!

I have a beginner question though. On gallery 1 it was very easy to change the look of the albums and pictures. Is this still possible with gallery2. An example would be to give the pictures within the album a dropshadow or a frame for example.

Best regards,

Timur

Hi aspigel,

You need to copy & paste the generated html code for ads into ads.tpl file. That is all.

Regards,

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Hi ejackson,

This problem is very strange, I didn't get that problem before. Could you please try to delete template cache. If it doesn't help can you also try to uninstall and install the theme again?

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Hi ryanlesser,

First of all you should give permission to add and view comments to your albums. Then you will see the comments at the bottom of the page. But View Latest Comments is the feature of G2.1. It show not only the comments the belong to that page but all.

You can use any frame in the carbon. But some frames are not compatible with IE.

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I just got a problem. When text boxes for inputting username and password are both black in color. How can I change it to white so as to view what I have typed into the textboxes easier? Thanks.

I installed Carbon over Blackjack and it works like a dream. Thanks! -- A very nice theme. One question -- I assume I'm free to replace your top banner with one of my own? http://johnuibel.com/gallery2

Thanks!

not to choke up this forum with unnecessary googah, but
Thank you very much! I honestly think your theme is the best design I've
seen available -- clean, professional, unobtrusive and nice. I appreciate your talents (wish I could do the same).

John

JJbbd, the logo.gif file is in <gallery_root>/themes/carbon/images. Just replace the logo.gif with another "logo.gif". If you want to use another file name you also need to change theme.tpl in template folder.

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In theme.css file you need to add background-color to #giFormUsername and #giFormPassword. I think this is an issue with IE. I will fix this issue in the next release. Thanks for reporting!

#giFormUsername, .giFormUsername {
  background: url('../carbon/images/userinfo.png') no-repeat 0 1px;
  padding-left: 17px;
  background-color: #eee
}

#giFormPassword {
  background: url('../carbon/images/key.gif') no-repeat 0 1px;
  padding-left: 17px;
  background-color: #eee
}

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Hi Mincel great theme, i recently upgraded my gallery and have just tried to add your theme and i receive this message

Gallery2 theme from mincel.com 
Incompatible theme! 
Core API Required: 7.0 (available: 6.8)

any help would be appreciated.

If it has allready been answered my apologies.

sorry about this folks but i'm not sure after reading through the above posts exactly how to fix this.

I'm running gallery v2. When i goto themes in the admin panel, against the carbon theme i get

what exactly do i need to add/change to get this to work..

thanks,

well m8, i was sure it was 2 but you must be correct. I downloaded blackjack carbon theme and it's there fine .. thanks

whilst i'm on.....

How does the image size work. ?

In matrix i had thumbnail size, then 480x480, 800x800 and original size. Obviously thumbnail is there then 480x480 how do i get to see the larger image and the original image sizes.

cheers

and a request if i may .. add in a random image thumbnail on the left below any text instead of in the options panel ? just a thought.

Hi nacoya,

Carbon theme currently supports 2 sizes. One resized and original size. You can see the original size, when you click on pop-up icon. I don't want a page to get oversized when a big image is selected, so that is why Carbon supports only two sizes.

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mincel any chance you would be able to incorporate something where it shows administrators the actual link to the first sized image ie (http://mygallary.com/images/image1.jpg), reason i ask is i like to link my images as images on forums and what not and because you have incorporated the actions as the right mouse button trigger there is no way to find the link of the image, most times the full size image is to big to post and therefore the sized down version is always better.

I hope that made sense ;)

CHeers and thanks for such a great theme.

I find the micro navigation thumbnails did not display all images thumbnails and only display 8 images randomly. How can I change it to display all

mvettas, maybe I can introduce a new parameter to enable/disable right clicks. Then you can get the link easily. If I display the link directly it may corrupt the page layout.

aspigel, the easiest way is to put a link in gallery links to load a forum with reciprocal links back. This way they can work independently of each other. You can put your forum files into myartwork.com/forum etc. I don't recommend opening a new window. If you need further help please feel free to contact me.

willfei, the micro navigation thumbnails are not displayed randomly. They are displayed according to peer list in the side bar. To display all you need is to change windowSize=$windowSize in navigatorMicroThumbs.tpl. But, I am planning to make it parametric in the next release.

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On the line for windowSize=$windowSize if you change default:null to default:25 it will display up to 25, you can put whatever # you want there. Maybe there's a better tag that will just display the full album instead of setting a number?

ya very true forgot that some albums have a lot of images, I wouldnt want to load 500 thumnails

Very impressed theme, very nice. I cannot wait to put it on my personal album immediate after found it. Thank you very much!

Everything goes smooth, just have error message inside the micro thumbs area on right side

Notice: Undefined index: columnIndex in c:\homepage\gallery2\g2data\smarty\templates_c\%%2658034931\%%CD^CD9^CD9C02CA%%navigatorMicroThumbs.tpl.php on line 36

Is there any setup problem on my gallery2 or my web server?

I am use Gallery 2.1-rc-1 with apache 1.3 & php 4.4.0 in Windows 2000

Hi mincel,

Thank you for the reply.

I have tried to clear all the cache inside gallery2/lib/support/ but the error message still existing. The thumbs can be display without problem, just the error message displayed at the top of the thumbs.