Questions tagged [design]
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Comment error popup makes sidebar move down in review-beta
In review-beta, on Ask Ubuntu, if one creates a comment, clicks Edit, leaves it for ten minutes, and tries to save, they will get an error popup. However, this error popup causes the sidebar to jump ...
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Isn't the "Ask question" button on this website a bit inconspicuous? [duplicate]
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Please make the “Ask Question” button on AskUbuntu more prominent
It took me 3 minutes to find the damn "Ask question" button on this website and it's all because ...
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Can we make the top tool bar position fixed while scrolling?
Wouldn't it be cool that this toolbar could be fixed for easier access for activities and votes? Saying FIXED i mean that while scroll it won't stay in the top of document, and will be in the top of ...
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Include number of comments in question preview
I suggest the following change to the way questions are displayed on the homepage: In addition to showing the number of upvotes, number of answers, and number of views, we also include the number of ...
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Line breaks in markdown
I have been seeing new users who copy/paste code or information into posts not add extra newlines(or even type without extra newlines) and make posts hard to read, wasting the time of a moderator or ...
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The "login or register" link is invisible in Internet Explorer
The "Please login or register to vote for this post" text doesn't display correctly when viewed in Internet Explorer 9 on Windows 7 Professional SP1 64-bit:
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Are the shorthand links only supported when used in comments? If so, why?
A bit ago I read the Comment Formatting section in the Markdown help and actually used some shorthand links in a comment. At the time I just assumed that these shorthand links would also work when ...
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Can we make the "ask question" button stand out more? [duplicate]
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Please make the “Ask Question” button on AskUbuntu more prominent
I'm new to askubuntu.com and when I first wanted to ask a question it took me a while to find ...
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Where can I get the Ask Ubuntu speech bubble logo?
Where can I get that speech bubble from Ask Ubuntu in SVG version?
I need it for my presentation.
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Lack of revision note and cc-wiki graphic in Ubuntu footer
I noticed today that the Ubuntu site doesn't appear to have the cc-wiki graphic and "revision" note that usually appears in the Stack Exchange footer. I don't want to tag this as a bug, but I was ...
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Is the 'edit' link prominent enough?
I keep seeing questioners answering their own questions with an update instead of editing the question. Is this maybe a problem of a not prominent enough edit link? Since this site heavily depends on ...
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Ubuntu monospace font on Ask Ubuntu
Ubuntu Font Family's monospace variant has been released recently - is it possible to have it as the default monospace font on AU?
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Ask Ubuntu Moderator Cards
We recently printed some business cards for our Stack Exchange employees and they turned out great.
It got us thinking: our sites' moderators have been working hard to keep our sites high quality for ...
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Part of description on "Tags" page is invisible
On "Tags" page, longer descriptions are clipped and the text that exceeds is invisible, so it can't be accessed.
It often occurs with my Firefox minimum font size to 16 (Options > Content > Fonts &...
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Bug with "Top Questions" overflow [duplicate]
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Question column too narrow in Firefox
The "Top Questions" list contained in <div id="question-mini-list"> has setting overflow to auto. With my Firefox set to have ...
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top bar style for ask ubuntu
The Top bar for Ask Ubuntu (and Meta) doesn't seem to have enough space from the top of the window area. When a notification (badge, welcome/faq) etc appears, it is very close to the text. This seems ...
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What happened to the chat-feature module on the Questions page?
When I enter Ask Ubuntu by http://askubuntu.com a chat-feature module displaying a nice box where I can see who is on chat and where I can enter the room is displayed:
However when loading https://...
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Why does AskUbuntu keep telling me about the video tutorials?
It seems like every page has a header saying:
Is this your first time here? Take a look at our Video Tutorials for using the site.
Does that text ever change? I have more than 200 rep, so I'm not ...
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Keyboard tags could use some love
Some of us have been asking for something nicer for the <kbd> tag.
Jin mentioned maybe polishing them up to make questions like this look nicer, just documenting that here.
(Also note, I love ...
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The "emphasis" symbol in the editor design issue.
As you can see in the screenshot above, there is a small, light grey line to the right of the "Emphasis" icon in the editor. That shouldn't be there, right?
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Design bug in Editing Review, Notifications don't disappear
Unfortunately, I've foolishly closed the tab before I thought to take a screen shot.
I saw a link beneath a question, edit (1), and clicked on it. A notification popped up saying something like that ...
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Line break glitch with code tag
Line breaks with code involved leave a thin piece of the code formatting in the previous line:
This only seems to happen with the Opera browser (ver. 11.00/11.01).
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Can you make askubuntu fit on netbook screens?
Being a netbook user (Eee PC) I am frequently annoyed by the fact that askubunt doesn't fit on my screen horizontally.
Could this website's maintainer make the website resize correctly?
As Ubuntu is ...
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Please change the "hyperlink" symbol in the editor
My goodness, for those of us who are not hip, please put text under the infinity symbol that apparently means 'link'. Not intuitive at all. Tooltips are nice, but text is nicer.
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Tone down the grey for formatting code/commands?
This answer is really brutal on the eyes however I think it's key to have filenames and commands with that kind of formatting.
Maybe perhaps toning it down a bit? Similar in shade to the blockquote ...
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Links in <code> spans are indistinguishable from normal <code> spans
Here's the real life example that triggered this:
Make sure you check for duplicates before adding new entries. For example, search pitivi inquestion:this before adding PiTiVi. :)
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Make links visible on escaped text
There is no visible difference between AskUbuntu and AskUbuntu, even though the first occurence points to a link and the second doesn't.
It could be argued that it is not necessary, but stackoverflow....
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Tone down "edited comment" icon
Compared to other SE sites I've participated in, especially SO, the icon for "this comment was edited" sticks out like a sore thumb on Ask Ubuntu.
Could it be toned down?
Here's my crude attempt, ...
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Giving feedback on the design
Thanks to Mat and Jin the new design is live. Here's how to report bugs. If you find a problem with the design that is CSS related, for example something doesn't line up right or look wrong, then Jin ...
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Replace the loading icon
I believe we should replace the Loading Icon with the default pin wheel found in Ubuntu - something like this
As opposed to the default stackoverflow icon.
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Incorrect new user text box
Q: What is Ubuntu?
A: Apparently, Ubuntu is a collaboratively edited question and answer site for people who love Ubuntu.
I think Canonical may not approve of that assessment ;). Don't know if this ...
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Line spacing cosmetics
Awesome work on the new site design!
I'd like to note a couple CSS issues related to line spacing, in this answer as an expample:
The scroll bars in the code block probably shouldn't be there. They ...
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Preformatted text is insufficiently distinct?
The background used for answers on askubuntu.com is slightly grey; this makes preformatted text such as this stand out significantly less than on, say stackoverflow.com.
I think this requires a ...
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Design Ideas for the final site
Hi everyone,
At the beginning of the beta I linked up Mat Tomaszewski from the Canonical Design Team to work with Jin Yang from SO on the design for the final site. I am posting the design here on ...
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