hey guy,
yeah seems that the timeless theme is not adopting the toolbar button settings.
if you want you can change the colour in your css. check the file components/com_easydiscuss/themes/timeless/styles/style.css and around line 13334 change the values in this part:

div#discuss-wrapper .discuss-headers-wrapper .btn-ask {

  -webkit-border-radius: 24px;

  -moz-border-radius: 24px;

  border-radius: 24px;

  position: absolute;

  bottom: 20px;

  right: 20px;

  font-size: 14px;

  font-weight: bold;

  color: #fff;

  text-shadow: 0 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.25);

  background-color: #85c3cb;

  background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top,#93cfd7,#71b1ba);

  background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear,0 0,0 100%,from(#93cfd7),to(#71b1ba));

  background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top,#93cfd7,#71b1ba);

  background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top,#93cfd7,#71b1ba);

  background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom,#93cfd7,#71b1ba);

  background-repeat: repeat-x;

  filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr='#ff93cfd7', endColorstr='#ff71b1ba', GradientType=0);

  border-color: #71b1ba #71b1ba #498c96;

  border-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.1) rgba(0,0,0,0.1) rgba(0,0,0,0.25);

  *background-color: #71b1ba;

  filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(enabled = false);

  border-color: #333 #333 #282828;

}

hope that helps

Thanks for sharing Alex

Yes thank you Alex.

I'm going to implement it shortly, Much appreciated

Hi Alex and all, It took a good while to work out all those cölor changes and upon save your solution worked perfectly

The thing is, I opened up an iPad and alas no button at all (; I switched back to the original style.css just to test if I'd broken something. The result was the same no button

I guess the guy's at Stackideas missed cross browser / platform testing of this theme?

Anyway, I'll compromise again and add the 'ask a question' module although I would have prefered to use the button in the discussion header.

Thanks again!

actually that shouldn't happen.
I just tested with my iphone on the stackideas demo and the button is showing up fine. perhaps something else is wrong at your end or/and have you made sure to be logged in on your ipad? If I remember correctly by default you'll see that button only if you're signed in but not when you're browsing as a "guest".

Alex you're right, thanks for pointing that out

Thanks Alex