# Kiosk, a self-service theme
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/kiosk-a-self-service-theme/271092
**Category:** Theme
**Created:** [July 10, 2023, 9:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/kiosk-a-self-service-theme/271092 "2023-07-10T09:35:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@manuel](https://meta.discourse.org/u/manuel)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2023, 9:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/kiosk-a-self-service-theme/271092/1 "2023-07-10T09:35:22Z")
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| 💫 | **Summary** | **Kiosk** has the look of a self-service terminal |
| 🛠 | **Repository** | [GitHub - nolosb/discourse-theme-kiosk · GitHub](https://github.com/nolosb/discourse-theme-kiosk) |
| 📖 | **New to Discourse Themes?** | [Beginner’s guide to using Discourse Themes](https://meta.discourse.org/t/beginners-guide-to-using-discourse-themes/91966) |
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](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-reddit-ish-theme-for-discourse/269466) 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
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> - 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`.
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> - On the _Rounded_ component you can smooth edges. On my live site I’ve set the default and button radius to `2px`.
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> - 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:
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> - Pick `Categories and featured topics` as your category style in admin settings
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> - To use a signage font you can [install HK Grotesk as a component](https://gitlab.com/manuelkostka/discourse/helpers/hk-grotesk.git).
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### Author:  [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2023, 10:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/kiosk-a-self-service-theme/271092/2 "2023-07-10T10:20:34Z")
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)~~ 🤔
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### Author:  [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2023, 11:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/kiosk-a-self-service-theme/271092/3 "2023-07-10T11:37:45Z")
This looks so clean and simple. I love it. 👏
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### Author:  [@manuel](https://meta.discourse.org/u/manuel)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2023, 3:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/kiosk-a-self-service-theme/271092/4 "2023-07-10T15:59:11Z")
> [@Lilly](#):
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> 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?
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### Author:  [@P2W](https://meta.discourse.org/u/P2W)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2023, 12:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/kiosk-a-self-service-theme/271092/5 "2023-07-16T00:36:01Z")
great work!
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### Author:  [@jordan.vidrine](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jordan.vidrine)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2023, 2:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/kiosk-a-self-service-theme/271092/6 "2023-07-20T14:19:16Z")
Great work @manuel 🙌
I love the simplicity of this theme 😸