Reading list by color?

[zdashamber]

On my Livejournal friendslist I use a style that shows bars of color alongside every post, based on the colors I defined for my different friends, so I can see at a glance who is talking. Dreamwidth has the option to define colors for different subscriptions, but is there a style yet that applies those different colors to your reading list?

amadi pointed to a good post on prettifying layout, which makes it seem possible (though difficult) that I could figure out how to hand-code something... So even complex fixes involving hand coding can apply.

(Not really related, I just saw a post about how you can apparently use different icons for usericons? Fascinating!)

Comments

[melannen]

As far as I can tell (and I've asked people actually on the styles team) there is currently no way to do custom friends colors with the native DW style system - yet. They've promised me that there will be eventually.

However, if you import a LJ S2 style that uses them, they will work on DW. (you can see the ugly one I crufted together on my flist - the only thing I care about in a style is getting my friends colors. :P So once I got my LJ style with friends colors working, I stopped messing with customizing, but there were some simple tutorials for doing the import, like ivorygates's customizationn for dummies.{

[zdashamber]

Thanks! That's definitely got some potential! I will perhaps poke at it.

[matgb]

Sheer curiosity—where did you get to my post from? I'm happy it's getting linked about, but I haven't got any tracking installed yet and am wondering.

[zdashamber]

Hum. Retracing steps... I went to bakeitup, because that's the DW with the prettiest layout I've seen so far and I was considering it, and I clicked on "Friends" to see how that layout presented the reading list, whether there was a space for color. Lo and behold there were interesting things on the friends-of-baking list, among them your post. Glad to hear you don't mind the unexpected exposure. :)