Reading the meta threads, it looks to me like the driver behind the design change is 'corporate identity'. Goes along with the 'cross network ads' that now appear for popular questions on lots of network sites at the same time, at least in some sense.
You can also see that in the 'stats' drop down: it shows votes for all network sites, which is really not a useful thing (depending on how many sites you are registered on, of course).
@Johannes_B CSS hacks will do it: as a 'feature' the decision has been made to go with black cross-network
One of the biggest issues for me is that the new interface approach hides meta/chat, which sort-of defeats the idea of getting new people involved beyond asking questions
\documentclass{amsart}
\title{Madhava's series for $\frac{\pi}{4}$}
\usepackage{xfrac}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{positioning, calc,decorations.pathreplacing,intersections, through}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\begin{center}
\begin{tikzpicture}[scale=3]
% The coordinates (0,0), (1,0)
\coordinate[label=below left:$0$] (O) at (0,0);
\coordinate[label=below left:$1$] (A) at (1,0);
%The Axes and the circle
\path [draw, dotted, thick, name path=C] (0,0) circle (1cm);
\draw[thick, domain=0:45] plot ({cos(\x)}, {sin(\x)});
@TorbjørnT. Now, the stuff is sufficiently complicated that, I am not sure what else in the code is really unnecessary.
@kan If I were to guess: because the upper path is inside a scope it is perhaps 'hidden' from the rest of the picture, use name path global (or whatever that key was called) instead.
Ok, so I decided that I'll try to slowly push in some (IMHO) resonable changes in the new top bar, hopefully ending in having something very similar to the old one:
I would like to request two changes related to the review button in the top-bar:
It should show only when there're reviews pending, and might show the number of reviews, like it did in the old design. (Remember that while there're lots and lots of reviews pending on SO, on most of the other sit...
@tohecz, @AlanMunn: Sean posted a link to a meta.SO thread about the topbar. I just removed the reference to hiding the avatars and the result is pretty good to me:
@PauloCereda Yeah, I tried that, but it takes away a couple of the icons too. I don't mind the logo as it is, and I've matched the colour of the bar to the background of the page.
@AlanMunn Ah I got that icon thingy too. :) In any case, here's the trick of making the icons appearing again: meta.tex.stackexchange.com/a/4006/3094 :)
With the new fancy black top bar, the logo of the site got mutilated. I believe that the following CSS fix would bring it close to the original state, however, I'm not 100% sure and IMHO the old version should be checked.
.new-topbar .container #header #hlogo {
margin-top: 13px;
margin...
@tohecz My problem with being 'unified' is that I don't use the network that way. I use TeX-sx (obviously), I very occasionally visit the main site and beyond that it's one-offs. Giving me a list of sites I've used by rep doesn't make a difference, neither does lumping all of my rep together, it just annoys me.
I think there'll be a lot to fix yet. However, these two comments give insight into the future I'm afraid:
@tohecz Many people complained about the old bar changing all the time. And trust me when I say "no-one complained", no matter what you're talking about here, will ever be accurate. The count or an indicator may in fact make a some re-appearance, but we're letting things settle before making any changes. — Nick Craver3 hours ago
Which means that we'll have this whole stupid and uncomfortable thing for a long time before any official change. Fancy people (probably hundreds-to-thousands of them) will make their jQ or whatever modifications, only to be angry again when the top bar changes, once it's "settled down". Do you see how misfortunate this is? — tohecz3 hours ago
@JosephWright Positives for me: Mortarboard on meta.tex-sx, and arouund 100 rep at MSO ;)
I have something like 3 years of muscle memory telling me to click in a certain place. A place which now takes me to /review. That's not at all a good reason not to change things, but it does make getting used to the change take longer. I don't doubt that many others are in the same boat - the fr...
@JosephWright exactly! I'm nearly exclusively active on TeX.sx and actually don't care at all about the rest of the network. I'm not interested in hot questions on some other site and even care less if the sites look alike .. I also miss the recent badges list on the right of the main page: often enough I found interesting question and answers by clicking on some recent »Nice Answer« badge...
@cgnieder well, they would like to change it, and in my opinion, this is a reasonable direction. I, for one, started to be active on CS, TCS and Math only because of featured questions and question ads. I'm not active much, but still, this small contributions are very important.
From my point of view, the all-over changes of the layout with featured questions moved to the main panel and the site list getting more accessible are good changes. I hate the new design of the top panel (esp. the colour imbalance) and +1 click to get to chat and meta.
@tohecz I agree that advertising the whole network makes sense from their point of view, obviously. I'm just saying that I'm not interested at all and to me the ads only are annoying... just like any other ads (which is why I have an adblocker in the first place)... well, I'll have to live with it, I guess
@PauloCereda No offense, but you're not exactly a very representative user (read: you're a nerd) =) (Although that seems like a pretty vanilla selection...)
@Jake For Mac, I also use Skim, but I would agree that it's a niche market. I think Preview is pretty typical as a default for most Mac users, although if you use Acrobat a lot, Adobe Reader might also be popular.
@PauloCereda Do I need a separate style for the meta site and the main site if I want different colours for the bar? That works, but I wonder if it's possible to combine the two into one?
@tohecz I finally realized what your spacing correction on the logo was doing...
@tohecz But I'm not convinced that the correction is the right way to do it. It seems that the line should be moved up, rather than more space left around the logo.
@tohecz And now I've just read your meta question about it....
Good afternoon everyone, just wondering where i can find the addons for TeX.SX like for MWE and links to package documentation. I had read the post with it but I cant seem to find it.
Some people might not know it, but on http://stackapps.com/ there are several applications / user scripts available which makes certain tasks easier for moderators and other users which often post helpful comments.
I like to point out some of them here. Feel free to post other ones as answer pos...
For some time I've looking for a simple editor, for writing mathematics, like the one I'm using right now on StackExchange.
My needs are as follows:
live preview/rendering of what you are typing (you shouldn't press a 'compile' button for seeing the result of your markup)
no control syntax ne...
I would like to request two changes related to the review button in the top-bar:
It should show only when there're reviews pending, and might show the number of reviews, like it did in the old design. (Remember that while there're lots and lots of reviews pending on SO, on most of the other sit...
For some time I've looking for a simple editor, for writing mathematics, like the one I'm using right now on StackExchange.
My needs are as follows:
live preview/rendering of what you are typing (you shouldn't press a 'compile' button for seeing the result of your markup)
no control syntax ne...
