Kiosk, a self-service theme

[manuel (Manuel Kostka)]

	Summary	Kiosk has the look of a self-service terminal
	Repository	GitHub - nolosb/discourse-theme-kiosk · GitHub
	New to Discourse Themes?	Beginner’s guide to using Discourse Themes

 

Install this theme

 

Theme Features

• Simple navigation
  The theme drops most nested or complex navigation features

• Pick your favorites
  Love this on a reddit-ish theme for Discourse and copied it as is Click a star icon to directly add a category or tag to the sidebar.

Official Components

The theme builds on several official components:

• Avatar Component
  Resizes avatars and the header

• Header Search
  Adds a Search field to the header

• New Topic Button
  Replaces the default button with a persistent New Topic button on the header

• Dark-Light Toggle
  Adds an icon to toggle color schemes.

Custom Components

It also uses two custom layout components:

• Panels
  Adds a panel layout around the main content container on all routes.

• Rounded
  Rounds a lot of elements. A work in progress..

 

Tune the theme

• Increase avatar sizes on the Avatar Component so they don’t render blurred. On my live site I’ve set sizes to medium and 45.

• On the Rounded component you can smooth edges. On my live site I’ve set the default and button radius to 2px.

• By default the sidebar shows a flat list of links. Toggle this theme setting to show the More dropdown and customize sidebar sections. Only staff will see the dropdown:

• Pick Categories and featured topics as your category style in admin settings

• To use a signage font you can install HK Grotesk as a component.

[Lilly (Lillian)]

nice theme @manuel, i love your work. i may use this (or a variation of it ) on my current forum because it looks like it would be one a lot of my user demographic would like.

question: is the nav-bar supposed to be gone on all pages? as an admin i get a blank space with one button (admin wrench) on the main categories page and so the space is quite noticeable there - but really who cares because i’m the admin and it looks great for regular users. however, i know quite a number of my users use the nav-bar filter links so a mild suggestion would be to add a setting to unhide it on the categories page.

i like how you moved the new topic button to the header and i love the favorites star.

i know you said work in progress on the rounding and i suspect you are on this, but i would suggest some description for the various settings in that component (like in the avatar TC).

i must be in the minority of those that use the collapsing navigation sidebar menu on desktop because i always miss the hamburger icon and that feature in full-width themes and i seems to be a thing these days - it was my only complaint about the Meta full width theme too (but i notice it’s back now)

[Canapin (Coin-coin le Canapin)]

This looks so clean and simple. I love it.

[manuel (Manuel Kostka)]

@Lilly

question: is the nav-bar supposed to be gone on all pages?

Actually, what you see as Breadcrumbs on category and tag lists is the nav-bar. It’s just styled so that it only shows selected items, and no drop-downs.

I don’t want to add drop-down filters here because that would pretty much go against the direction of the theme. I do think of having breadcrumbs on all routes though. What I’d like is a look that always repeats the current selection on the sidebar as a breadcrumb indicator. E.g. for the Latest list:

So I hope to add this as an optional component a bit later

I can totally see that more navigation options make sense on your forum though! The Panels component as such could probably go well with your setup?

[P2W (Mike Riddick)]

great work!

[jordan.vidrine]

Great work @manuel

I love the simplicity of this theme