I don't believe they considered the possibility that this might be important to some of their users.

I just spent some time browsing through GOG's career portal (http://www.gog.com/work). I recommend reading it.

I normally use light colour schemes but the GOG forum one just doesn't do it for me. It should be more like the collection list view: Solid borders all the way around the posts and a clearer colour distinction between in-post and out-of-post backgrounds.

It's hard to look at when it's such a diffuse muddle.

Here's your post with the current grey theme, and then incrementally transitioned to the theme used by the list view.

The other alternative would be to rework the colour scheme to match the contrast and psychological factors that make the dark colour scheme work.

The Book of Unbundled Tales, Chapter 66:

NOTE! ADDED FILE Battle Isle Platinum (includes Incubation), downloadables, Battle Isle 1: Windows installer, English (setup_battle_isle_2.2.0.21.exe; Wed, 25 Feb 2015 16:11:45 GMT; 45,924,256)

NOTE! ADDED FILE Battle Isle Platinum (includes Incubation), downloadables, Battle Isle 2: Windows installer, English (setup_battle_isle2_2.2.0.20.exe; Wed, 25 Feb 2015 16:15:42 GMT; 478,623,312)

NOTE! ADDED FILE Battle Isle Platinum (includes Incubation), downloadables, Battle Isle 3: Windows installer, English (setup_battle_isle3_2.2.0.20.exe; Wed, 25 Feb 2015 16:14:57 GMT; 481,085,408)

NOTE! ADDED FILE Battle Isle Platinum (includes Incubation), downloadables, Historyline 1914-1918: Windows installer, English (setup_battle_isle_historyline_2.2.0.20.exe; Wed, 25 Feb 2015 16:11:48 GMT; 25,458,384)

NOTE! ADDED FILE Battle Isle Platinum (includes Incubation), downloadables, Incubation: Windows installer, English (setup_battle_isle_incubation_2.2.0.20.exe; Wed, 25 Feb 2015 16:13:04 GMT; 195,777,120)

NOTE! REMOVED FILE Battle Isle Platinum (includes Incubation), downloadables, Windows installer, English (setup_battle_isle_platinum_2.1.0.19.exe; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 11:17:11 GMT; 1,197,961,200)

NOTE! REMOVED FILE Battle Isle Platinum (includes Incubation), downloadables, Universal update (2.0.0 -> 2.1.0) (patch_battle_isle_platinum_2.1.0.19.exe; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 11:03:18 GMT; 88,070,952)

Wow. I really like your 2_more_colour_di.png scheme.

I myself am really rather poor when it comes to designing UI and web display (as can be seen from MaGog), but I greatly appreciate something good when I see it.

Are you up to fleshing your suggestions into a Stylish script (or something similar), publishing it, and -- most important -- maintaining it over time, thereby making the GOG forum (and other pages) experience much more pleasant for many of us.

Barefoot Essentials has gone a long way to improve the useability of GOG. Perhaps it is time to have some comparable tool (Shod Essentials?) to improve its appearance as well. Hmm...?

The Book of Unbundled Tales, Chapter 67:

NOTE! ADDED FILE Battle Chess Special Edition, downloadables, Battle Chess: Windows installer, English (setup_battle_chess_2.1.0.26.exe; Wed, 25 Feb 2015 16:11:11 GMT; 14,522,800)

NOTE! ADDED FILE Battle Chess Special Edition, downloadables, Battle Chess 4000: Windows installer, English (setup_battle_chess4k_2.1.0.26.exe; Wed, 25 Feb 2015 16:11:09 GMT; 27,813,312)

NOTE! ADDED FILE Battle Chess Special Edition, downloadables, Chinese Chess: Windows installer, English (setup_chinese_chess_2.1.0.26.exe; Wed, 25 Feb 2015 16:11:03 GMT; 14,360,256)

NOTE! REMOVED FILE Battle Chess Special Edition, downloadables, Windows installer, English (setup_battle_chess_2.0.0.25.exe; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 11:18:41 GMT; 29,407,632)





NOTE! ADDED FILE Battle Chess Special Edition, downloadables, Battle Chess: Mac OS X installer, English (battle_chess_2.0.0.13.dmg; Wed, 25 Feb 2015 16:11:09 GMT; 12,489,628)

NOTE! ADDED FILE Battle Chess Special Edition, downloadables, Battle Chess 4000: Mac OS X installer, English (battle_chess_4000_2.0.0.12.dmg; Wed, 25 Feb 2015 16:11:09 GMT; 26,741,363)

NOTE! ADDED FILE Battle Chess Special Edition, downloadables, Chinese Chess: Mac OS X installer, English (battle_chess2_chinese_chess_2.0.0.12.dmg; Wed, 25 Feb 2015 16:11:03 GMT; 12,114,606)

NOTE! REMOVED FILE Battle Chess Special Edition, downloadables, Mac OS X installer, English (battle_chess_special_edition_1.0.0.6.dmg; Mon, 02 Dec 2013 16:12:37 GMT; 35,378,818)

I'd be very much in favor of a Shod Essentials tool. =P The dark theme could benefit from being juiced up too, but if the light theme looked like 2_more_colour_di.png I would seriously consider using that. And I don't even like light themes!

I'm willing to maintain it but, at the moment, I'm low on time and that'd interfere with certain things I'd want to do before publicly associating it with my name on Userstyles.org:

1. It still feels like there's more I could do before I'd be comfortable dogfooding it but said changes are more subtle and, as such, require more time and thought.

2. Given that GOG doesn't have an obvious CSS-visible way to tell the light and dark themes apart, I'd have to copy much of the light theme into my CSS to make sure that users don't get a broken mess when dark is selected.

3. The only things I changed in that screenshot were the box-shadow and background CSS properties for div.big_post_h elements. I'd want to see if there are any tweaks I could make to the rest of the UI to produce a unified, consistent-looking experience.

4. Testing and debugging the theme across all the different places it may apply.

However, if you'd like me to pastebin a quick userstyle which just applies the tweaks in the screenshot, I do have time for that right now.

I prefer a well-designed and well-tested script and I'm willing to wait for it. It's not as if I haven't managed with the current forum for quite a while now. Looking forward to your script when you have the time to develop it.

As for the dark and light themes, perhaps you could just warn people that they need to disable the script before selecting dark. I don't expect many people move back and forth between the two or a regular basis.

Thank you.

The Book of Unbundled Tales, Chapter 68:

NOTE! ADDED FILE Avernum: The Complete Saga, downloadables, Avernum 1: Windows installer, English (setup_avernum_2.1.0.4.exe; Wed, 25 Feb 2015 16:10:25 GMT; 16,828,104)

NOTE! ADDED FILE Avernum: The Complete Saga, downloadables, Avernum 2: Windows installer, English (setup_avernum2_2.1.0.4.exe; Wed, 25 Feb 2015 16:10:54 GMT; 18,647,984)

NOTE! ADDED FILE Avernum: The Complete Saga, downloadables, Avernum 3: Windows installer, English (setup_avernum3_2.1.0.4.exe; Wed, 25 Feb 2015 16:10:48 GMT; 20,387,952)

NOTE! ADDED FILE Avernum: The Complete Saga, downloadables, Avernum 4: Windows installer, English (setup_avernum4_2.1.0.5.exe; Wed, 25 Feb 2015 16:10:35 GMT; 26,404,600)

NOTE! ADDED FILE Avernum: The Complete Saga, downloadables, Avernum 5: Windows installer, English (setup_avernum5_2.1.0.4.exe; Wed, 25 Feb 2015 16:10:43 GMT; 35,509,096)

NOTE! ADDED FILE Avernum: The Complete Saga, downloadables, Avernum 6: Windows installer, English (setup_avernum6_2.1.0.4.exe; Wed, 25 Feb 2015 16:10:55 GMT; 44,542,664)

NOTE! ADDED FILE Avernum: The Complete Saga, downloadables, Blades of Avernum: Windows installer, English (setup_blades_of_avernum_2.1.0.4.exe; Wed, 25 Feb 2015 16:10:49 GMT; 22,404,328)

NOTE! REMOVED FILE Avernum: The Complete Saga, downloadables, Windows installer, English (setup_avernum_series_2.0.0.3.exe; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 03:25:12 GMT; 115,727,904)





NOTE! ADDED FILE Avernum: The Complete Saga, downloadables, Avernum 1: Mac OS X installer, English (avernum_the_complete_saga_1.0.0.9.dmg; Thu, 20 Mar 2014 14:47:20 GMT; 665,425,079)

NOTE! REMOVED FILE Avernum: The Complete Saga, downloadables, Mac OS X installer, English (avernum_the_complete_saga_1.0.0.9.dmg; Thu, 20 Mar 2014 14:47:20 GMT; 665,425,079)





[Another game where the Mac OS X installer has apparently not (yet?) been unbundled and has been left in this state under the first sub-game, in this case Avernum 1.]

The Book of Unbundled Tales, Chapter 69:

That was the last of it for now.
By my count, there are 15 games still scheduled to be unbundled, so expect 15 more chapters later on.

I will post a summary of all the bugs and deficiencies to the unbundling thread (for I fear I may have overused this thread for some people), probably tomorrow.

Thank you for the work! And thanks in advance for the bug report :-)

I wonder what it is they changed here. They are updating those installers so often that I download it every second day (at least it feels this way). They still haven't changed the STUPID installation folders ep1-ep4.

Just a follow up to a previous post here ( a week or so ago) regarding the missing update for King's Bounty: Warriors of The North: Ice and Fire patch(es) that Steam have had since the middle of January. A forum member suggested that I contact the the devs which seemed like a good idea. Anyway, a result! I have heard back from them saying that they've now sent the latest patch through to GOG so hopefully it'll show up soon. Just thought other KB fans might be interested :)

The unbundling madness went on for long. Thanks mrkgnao for the hard work of keeping this thread up-to-date! +1

Very many thank yous.
I plan to try to play the entire series in sequence on impossible mage (I am only about 1/3 of the way into The Legend at the moment) so I do appreciate it being as up to date as possible.