[Phpslash-devel] Philosophy Friday

[Joe S. <joe...@us...>]

Hello,

With 0.7.1 being released maybe we can step back and plan some 
direction.

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A couple of gotchas recently:

The css files aren't parsed so image urls are site specific.  I do 
prefer having regular css files that are served by the webserver and 
cached by the browser over generating them with php.

It would be useful to have a template to parse for modules similar to 
the storyIndex.tpl.  Instead of having to modify each module's output 
to match the theme, maybe a moduleIndex.tpl that could provide it in 
one place.

CSS only themes have a problem using a common footer template with two 
and three column output.  Evidently the designers of CSS layout didn't 
really make it useful for having a consistent way to have footers with 
different layouts.  It is possible to put a {FOOTER} tag in the 
index page to be able to set the location of the footer.  I did find a 
way to check if the {FOOTER} placeholder is used and if not echo 
the output at the end as usual.  Does this sound useful or too much 
overhead?

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A snapshot of the phpslash-skins cvs was released to play with.  If 
anyone wants to help manage a skins repository speak up.  The current 
ones are pretty rough - they basically give the look, but aren't 
tested for completeness.  

I would like someone to help with a design contest for the main 
distribution template sets.  If one we already have wins - good.  
It still should get some interest and new designs out.  
Xaraya just had a logo contest and Midgard is having a contest for 
their website redesign now.

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Hopefully I can get the phpslash-modules cvs synced up with 0.7.1.

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I've taken to using KDE for most of my development.  It's really come 
a long way ( the hardware has caught up to it too).

A couple of things stand out -

kompare - a visual diff.  Really nice display of diff output.  I start 
it from the command line.  As much as I'm impressed by gvim's diff 
mode, I use this more.

vimpart - embedded vim in kde editor components.

quanta - This IDE is working well for me.  When the kate editor that it 
uses has the embedded vim, I'll probably use it much more.


later,

Joe