note that the very old virtual-server-theme has been cloned/modified/updated and the newer replacement theme (actually two of them) are named Blue and Gray — note for user/admin courtesy, I believe that Blue and Gray are identical to each other, other than for the actual name of the theme. You can adjust the global default in Webmin – Webmin Configuration – Webmin Themes, as well as each admin account having the option of its own chosen theme. (I forget if Usermin access/usermin interface has a personal them setting as well).
I myself have been recently upgrading Webmin (and Virtualmin) and have had to choose Blue or Gray as a replacement theme for virtual-server-theme. Blue/Gray look and act just like virtual-server-theme but have been updated with lots of little improvements I believe. I too prefer the html style theme compared to Authentic
Blue and gray were actually different themes (both old and unmaintained now). Gray was a rendition of the Virtualmin theme without the Virtualmin menus and such.
There was, for a time Virtualmin Framed Theme that was independently packaged, but all of these have been merged into one theme. I believe it is just called Framed Theme now and part of Webmin core package (taking the place of gray theme), and on new-ish installs you will only have Legacy (the prehistoric non-theme), Framed (the Virtualmin framed theme that overtook gray theme), and Authentic. Authentic is the only actively maintained and developed theme; we just don’t have the resources for a bunch of ancient CSS and JavaScript wrangling. Authentic has many color palettes available and is quite customizable using stylesheets, and overlays. The only thing you can’t do with Authentic is make it as light as the old framed theme, which has almost no JavaScript.
On modern browsers, Authentic should be mostly competitive in performance with Framed theme, and occasionally faster (at least perceived as faster, since it can search for menu options without reloading the page, etc.). But, on very old hardware, or very slow network, Framed theme might still be preferable.
In short: There is no great future for Framed Theme. We’ll fix bugs. But, it isn’t getting any better, and there are things it can’t do and there will be more things it can’t do in the future. If it’s to see any new development, it would need someone to adopt it and work on it.
Oh, and I guess I should mention that if you’re still using Virtualmin Framed Theme, it’s probably got a lot of little broken bits, as it has been unmaintained for a couple/few years. You want to switch to the still-maintained Framed Theme, which ships with Webmin. That is maintained in the sense that we fix bugs. It is not, however, actively developed.
Thanks for pointing this out. Yeah, improved in the latest commit. However, I’d like to point out that the scroll bar lies in-between black and white regions, making it hard to make it more visible than a shade of gray, i.e. #000 — #808080 — #fff. I made it slightly lighter. Looks better anyway.
