Question Why bother with "native" Joomla forum?

gulffresh wrote:

You Should ask for your money back.:laugh:

lol! Not quite what I'm hoping for here.

I just think maybe development efforts are being steered in the wrong direction. We've already had a fairly successful revolution on the web that separates content and appearance (html vs stylesheets). It's discouraging to see developers go backwards by merging functionality and appearance where they could easily be kept separate. Let Joomla take care of the appearance, it already does a great job at it. Just concentrate on the functionality! The joomla.css stylesheet included in Kunena proves that it's not necessary to fully style this component. All it needs to provide is basic layout stuff that Joomla doesn't typically handle by default. This makes it infinitely easier to adapt the component to the look of any web site.

I want Kunena to rock as much as anyone else does After all, I benefit from its success!

@ GoremanX: As a Kunena developer I agree you 99%. We need much better themes.

Kunena 1.0.8 was meant to be major security fix release for FireBoard users, nothing else. All the interesting changes were delayed to later versions.

Not much has happened with the themes. All themes are a legacy from the FB, and most of the fixes made into them are relatively minor -- just to fix xhtml incompatibilities and to import some changes from our own themes to Kunena. We also tried to make default_ex to work in all themes and made some progress in it, but unfortunately our templates are too far away from Joomla themes so the results were not as good as we hoped.

I must ask Noel to point out where you can find the new theme (mainly css file). It's much better in dark themes than default_ex, but it has some issues if you have white background.

I'm glad I've made my voice heard and my apologies if I came off as a little aggressive. It's hard to make criticism sound positive. As far as functionality, Kunena (and Fireboard before it) rocks! I'm relieved to see that the old Fireboard component didn't just fade away into obscurity, there's definitely a lot of potential for it. I look forward to seeing where Kunena takes it.

As a small spoiler: Themes are still not in the top in our priorities. In few days we will have working J!1.5 Native version up and running. After that we are going to merge improved search functionality and huge SQL performance optimizations into it.

That's fine! I'm really looking forward to 1.5 native compatibility. Kunena seems to be the only component I'm working with that requires me to still use the Legacy plugin.

What a great post GoremanX..

I know it's not supposed to be funny but I lol :laugh:

If all components would have "use joomla css?" *big YES flashy button*" the internet would be a better place indeed

And .png rocks.