[Wikipedia-l] Re: Cologne Blue

[Karen AKA Kajikit]

Brion VIBBER wrote:
> 
> Stephen Gilbert wrote:
> > --- Toby Bartels <toby+wikipedia-l at math.ucr.edu> wrote:
> >
> >>This is just me but ...
> >>I hate Cologne Blue.
> >
> >  This is just me, but ...
> > I love Cologne Blue.
> >
> > Perhaps you are scared of change. Perhaps you are a
> > Wikipedia fundamentalist. Perhaps you just don't like
> > Cologne Blue.
> 
> The toolbar needs some reworking for maximum usability (someone recently
> posted some suggestions for that in wikitech-l), but by and large I find
> that my eyes are seared out by the ugliness of the old interface when I
> visit Wikipedia from a computer where I'm not logged in with CB selected.
> 
> Those who prefer to sleep on cold stone floors, eat naught but cold
> oatmeal, and spend two hours each morning flagellating themselves to
> expiate the sins of their fellow Wikipedians are free to select the
> classic skin.
> 
> Meanwhile, those of us who prefer that the site not scare away potential
> contributors on their first visit by presenting only its bath-avoiding,
> flea-infested, rib-protruding side, will continue to lobby for making CB
> the default look.

I hate cologne blue for two reasons - firstly, it's a san-serif font
which is not as good for large slabs of text as a serif font. There's a
reason why virtually all books are typeset in good old time-roman or
something similar - it's easier on the eyes... 

and secondly, it doesn't have the basic menu options up the top of the
screen. When I looked at it I had trouble finding 'random page' and
'recent changes' and 'edit page' because they were buried in the busy
sidebar instead of being neatly arrayed along the top by themselves. 

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