Hi! Just wondering if there is any way we can customise the colour of the “Note” button?
Also, in dark mode, the text shadow in status bar should be removed for clarity I think.
There’s a lot of real progress there, but content is still being pushed into a secondary layer by some attention-seeking deco.
Most of that can be quickly cleaned up, but an obdurate residue of slightly cheesy pictorialism (perhaps intended as decoration ?) does persist, and might need something stronger than an off-the-shelf household cleaner.
Quick fixes
- Toolbar: text only
- Sidebar tab icons - delete all from the application resources folder
- ‘perspective’ icons - ditto ( most are in their own sub-folder )
Remaining problems
- All of the frilly ‘line and fill’ folder and project type (etc) icons (e.g. six contrasting edges for a disclosure triangle, when the eye gets the point with three, as in OS X
OmniOutliner, though iOS OO did not escape the turn to deco) - The gratuitously pictorial ‘flag’ icon. An orange dot would be more than enough.
- The redundant flag ornament at top right of completion circles
- The over-drawn and slightly unconvincing or over-assertive check icon.
Solutions ?
- Would it be possible to directly replace the open and closed folder pictures with the clearer and simpler disclosure icons from OO ? (I haven’t tried)
- Perhaps an alternative set of simple clear (non deco-pic) icons which just use the minimum effective number of lines and levels of contrast ?
Thanks a lot! Finally, with the new theming engine I can at least try to minimally use OF2, which is a huge contrast to the previous “completely unable to use”.
Some points, in no particular order:
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action row height slightly collapses when I try to edit action title in-line; expands when I’m done editing. Related, when I move from one action to another while still editing their action titles, the titles “jump” up and down. Happens even with the build-in font collection on a largest size setting in Preferences dialog; both in Fluid and Custom-Columns layout. Update: reproduces only for multi-line actions.
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for Custom-Columns layout, is there any way to hide “note” icon when there is no note contained for an action (but still show the icon when the note is there)? I can not imagine to use the icon to open note editor, as I’m heavy user of keyboard shortcuts
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speaking of shortcuts, isn’t there an option to use old-school Alt-’ combination for Note show-hide? Alternatively, will system-preferences way to re-assign it to older combination work?
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for Fluid layout, any way to get rid of full-height spacing under each action title? Screen space looks really wasted, with its own way for each layout: double-height for Fluid; space for columns for Custom-Columns. Personally I only attach context / {due|defered} date to 10-20% of items, and need to see it only when it’s there–but not waste screen real estate for the remaining 80-90% of actions. So in Fluid layout, I would prefer those attributes to be shown right to the action title, in line with it – and only claim extra height when there’s not enough space left from the action title. How popular is this request, given that the 2.x layout is well over year old now? Update: and I undestand this is not about reduced functionality compared to 1.x, so it should be treated as a separate feature request, of course.
How can we determine the names of the fonts we’d like to use? Proxima Nova (in the Prefs pane) > ApproximaOverdrive-Regular (in the exported XML) isn’t exactly obvious. :)
I’m trying to like the Dark Mode in the 2.5 beta, however, it just seems so much busier to me than the light version.
Especially whenever I have the Inspector visible, there are so many light outlines to the boxes that it just seems even worse. I don’t know if that’s because I have Tab Focus set in my System Preferences to have All controls instead of just Text boxes and lists only.
Does anyone have any suggestions…?
Scott
I’m mostly done with a theme that makes a few subtle color changes to OF Light, and lots of spacing/font tweaks to the System Font, if anyone wants to kick the tires:
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Its just font file name. For example, SourceSansPro-It for source sans pro italic. You can check your fonts folder.
Thanks; doesn’t work for me — with or without “.otf” suffixes. E.g.:
<key>OFITextStyleForecastCalendarEventTitle</key>
<dict>
<key>font-name</key>
<string>IdealSans-Light-Pro.otf</string>
<key>font-size</key>
<real>12</real>
</dict>
(As one of many examples…) results in errors when opening the .ofocus-style file in OmniFocus:
The following fonts used by the style are not available:
• IdealSans-Light-Pro.otf
• IdealSans-Medium-Pro.otf
The following text styles defined by the style can't be instantiated:
• OFITextStyleActionGroupTitle
• OFITextStyleActionTitle
• OFITextStyleCollationGroupTitle
• OFITextStyleContextTitle
• OFITextStyleFolderTitle
• OFITextStyleForecastCalendarEventTitle
• OFITextStyleForecastEventTimelineGridlineLabel
• OFITextStyleForecastMinorCollationGroupTitle
• OFITextStyleForecastSidebarLabel
• OFITextStyleForecastSidebarMiniLabel
• OFITextStyleInspectorSidebarNoteBody
• OFITextStyleMetadata
• OFITextStyleNoContentNote
• OFITextStyleNoContentTitle
• OFITextStyleNoteBody
• OFITextStyleProjectTitle
• OFITextStyleSidebarBadgeCount
• OFITextStyleSidebarTabTitle
• OFITextStyleSidebarTitle
Any other suggestions?
Ah sorry, I’m not sure then…
I’m assuming the font needs to be referenced using the Postscript name of the font, which can easily be found in Font Book by selecting the font and then hitting Cmd+I.
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Am I missing something here? This is my “Style” preference pane, lacking any import or export options.
I haven’t seen it mentioned, but it seems that custom colour palettes (and thus importing and exporting them) are only available in Pro.
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This was an oversight, and should be fixed soon (our intention is that the Style features as they are currently implemented will be the same for Pro and Standard customers).
This URL https://omnistaging.omnigroup.com/omnifocus/ doesn’t show any versions or release notes in Google Chrome (OS X, 49.0.2623.87 64-bit), but it does in Safari (9.1 9537.86.5.17.4). All on OS X 10.9.5 build 13F1712. It worked several days ago, though.
Likely HTML is broken in some way?
I just tested in Google Chrome (same version: OS X, 49.0.2623.87, 64-bit) and it loads just fine for me. (Admittedly, I’m on 10.11 rather than 10.9, but I doubt that would make a difference.) Any chance you have a plug-in installed which is affecting the page in some way?
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Ken, you are right: looks it’s an incompatibility with some plugin–just tried in Incognito, and it works fine. Please disregard.
Anyone have themes to share?
Do you have a dark version as well?
