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Okay, so I’ve been busy. Too busy, actually; I haven’t had a lot of time for hacking on my open source projects, including the surprisingly popular Scribbish theme for typo.

In the time since I last posted here on this lowly blog, Scribbish has been added to the main typo distribution as one of the default themes. This makes me happy. But it also means that it’s slightly harder to maintain. Now, instead of just pushing changes whenever I feel like it, I have to make a patch against typo and submit it to the typo trac. This is probably why I’ve put off updating it for so long.

Being part of the default typo distribution means an increase in visibility, however, and the lack of maintenance was making me look bad. There are a lot of blogs running Scribbish (it’s allure, I think, stems from the fact that it’s dead simple), so the internet is now rife slightly borked versions. Fuck. I finally broke down and decided to fix it.

Alas, it has now been updated. Fixes include the flickr sidebar that liked to float right, detail pages that would produce invalid xhtml in the event of zero comments, comments and trackbacks that would display even if they weren’t published, and a few other odds and sods. The patches have been submitted and are patiently awaiting application.

Thanks to everyone who sent me suggestions and patches. Much appreciated.

I’ve also updated the Scribbish subversion repository with the latest patches; I’m not sure how much longer I’m going to maintain this branch. I might use svk to maintain both versions, but then again, I might not. For now, though, I’ll continue to maintain both, and the subversion version (that sounds funny: ‘subversion version’) will be up to date with the latest patches submitted to the typo version. This should make it easier for the folks who are so graciously porting it to other applications (word on the street is that a Mephisto version is in the works).

So, yeah. Scribbish is updated; I’ll post a notification when the patches have been applied. Then you can update typo and all will be right with the world. If you want to live dangerously, you can always delete the themes/scribbish directory from typo and use svn:externals to stay in sync with the development branch.

This blog is running the young and as yet unspoiled typo blogging package. Just when it seems like the default theme, Azure, is poised to become the new Kubrick, Typo is having a theme contest to catalyze an explosion of new, unique, and free designs. This is unquestionably a Good Thing.

This theme is called Scribbish. Installing it is easy. Assuming you’re in your typo directory,

$ cd themes
$ curl -O http://smg.textdriven.com/scribbish.tar.gz
$ tar zxvf scribbish.tar.gz
$ rm scribbish.tar.gz

You should now be able to select “Scribbish” under the “Themes” tab in the typo backend.

So far I’ve tested it in Safari 2.01 and Firefox Beta 1.5 on OS X, and Firefox 1.0.7 on Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy Badger. Does it work in Internet Explorer on Windows? If so, consider it submitted.