Popular RubyForge themes

Rich and I were talking about RubyForge themes and which ones were being used.  Thus this query:

select t.fullname as "Theme", count(u.theme_id) as People 
from users u, themes t 
where u.theme_id = t.theme_id 
group by t.fullname 
order by People desc;

And the results:

Theme	People
OSX (default)	7784
GForge	990
Bruce William's theme	220
UltraLite	219

I'm suprised more folks aren't using at Bruce's theme; it's pretty nice.   I suppose most folks just stick with the default theme, which is probably reasonable.

To try out the various themes, click on "My Account" link in the top right hand corner of any RubyForge page and select one of the themes from the dropdown box near the middle of the page.  Enjoy!

Comments

[Robin Stocker]

Hey Tom!

Once I had a look at the available themes, but Bruce's wasn't there back then. Now I switched to it and I quite like it. Good work Bruce! Just one tiny note: The fonts are a little bit too small for my eyes, but maybe that's just me.

Do you consider setting it as the default theme? Now that we also have a new ruby-lang.org, why not also give rubyforge.org a more modern look? :-)

Cheers, Robin Stocker

[Matt Todd]

Hi, I was using OS X until I actually took the time to check out the themes. Really, it's probably more a matter of "well, if I don't like it, it's more effort than I'm willing to put out to change it back and forth a couple of times". That's our nature, I guess. I just wish it were easier to see the differences. There's an implicit mistrust of what we don't know.

M.T.

[tomcopeland]

Robin - Cool, yup, Bruce's theme was just added a month or two ago. I guess we could make it the default theme... or at least bump up the visibility of the other themes somehow? Dunno.

Matt - True, most folks probably just stick with the default. Heh, I just reran that query and five people have switched over to Bruce's theme, so I guess the word is out :-)

[Daniel Berger]

Me? I'm waiting for the Star Wars theme. ;)

- Dan

[Daniel Schierbeck]

Bruce's theme ought to be the default, albeit a little tweaking is necessary to make it work on a 800*600 display.

[tomcopeland]

Dan - someday!

Daniel - 21 people have switched over to Bruce's theme since this entry was posted, so a fair number of folks seem to agree...