Announcing a new look for SMF 2.0: Curve

[Gary]

At least two are planned.

[Fustrate]

key word: "planned"

[IchBin™]

Key words "At least".

[Fustrate]

the only remaining key words are now "two are"...

[metallica48423]

Two RC's are planned.  There may be a third if the team feels curve is not up to snuff enough to be released as final when the release following RC2 is to be made.

[kingkingston]

not bad but if you look closely you can see the edges of the square up top

[Leemy]

Thanks for the updates, SMF team. Glad to know Curve will be easily customized to other colors.  Do we have an ETA on RC2? Thanks Again!

[Fustrate]

They'll tell you the ETA after it comes out

Basically, you never rush out a bad product if you don't bind yourself to a deadline.

[orelanic]

They'll tell you the ETA after it comes out

Basically, you never rush out a bad product if you don't bind yourself to a deadline.

Very true...
but just like a children who want the new toy you will get,  I WANT IT NOWWWWW...

Thanks for doing what you do so well.

Ade

[Antechinus]

Well to tell you the truth, it is a work in progress and that means if we gave it to you NOWWWWW you'd probably be grumpy about it anyway. We're doing you a favour here. Srsly.

[iaccountant]

Great looking version...and it will always be a work in progress. I can't see the development team resting on its laurels.

FWIW, I am a fan of the side bar and the tabs...though I understand the drop downs make for faster "global" navigation. I guess I just like "being in context"...being in a "resting space"... which is what the sidebar and tabs give me.

I guess the bottom line is that given my behaviours and use of the admin centre, that  I do not feel the urgency to jump from one area to the other.

But that's just me. And I appreciate all your efforts to create such a marvellous piece of software...nor will I ever look such a great gift horse in the mouth.

I'll just be happy riding it

[Leemy]

There's a saying in business that

It's better to release a good product today, than a better product tomorrow

Assuming stability, it's best to release software and then improve it as you go.  If you keep waiting for perfection, potential users could go to other products, etc etc.

Of course I'd love to see SMF as stable and feature-rich as possible, but I also really wanna get RC2 + Curve! lol

Thanks again to the SMF team for all their hard work.

[Tristan Perry]

Of course I'd love to see SMF as stable and feature-rich as possible, but I also really wanna get RC2 + Curve! lol

That's why many of the betas for 2.0 have been released already

They are releasing and fixing, it's just that Curve is a very big change and currently isn't stable enough to release at this immediate moment in time (although work is being done on it daily)

[s²]

Will the psd files for Curve be available to those of us who just want to change the colors of the images?

[Tristan Perry]

Will the psd files for Curve be available to those of us who just want to change the colors of the images?

Certain PSDs (i.e. for the corners, etc) will probably be provided, yes.

[青山 素子]

A customization kit will very likely be provided once we have the code behind the theme in a much more stable state. At the very least, many of the source images will be made available so color variations and minor tweaks can be made.

[Electro-X-]

When the RC2 gonna be out?? i know there's no exact time... man i can't wait.....

[Fustrate]

Start counting to a billion, and when you say the right number, RC2 will be released.

[уιℓмαz]

Very nice picts

[Tristan Perry]

Start counting to a billion, and when you say the right number, RC2 will be released.

If I write a program (PHP, Java etc) to count it for me, will this still be true?

Nah Electro-X-, it'll be released when it's ready. And there's no time limit on how long it'll take until "it's ready"