Re: [Rainbowportal-devel] Old themes issues

[John M. <joh...@gm...>]

Hi guys,

I'll put my hands up. I was one of the ones who pushed for themes to
be removed from RC4. The main reason being that RC4 was supposed to be
the last interim release before labelling it V1, or Rainbow 2005 or
whatever it gets called in the end. Yes it did make it easy to
demonstrate different themes, but they weren't the best themes and you
could come up with some pretty unsightly combinations by mixing
layouts and themes.

The idea was to and I hope still is, to use the module gallery, put
the themes/layouts in there (Call it a theme/layout gallery) and keep
them in the Extensions folder in cvs (That way people can still
extend/improve them if they wish). This would hopefully encourage
additional themes to be added to the gallery as there would already be
some available.

The idea was to have 2 base designs (1 zen , 1 3 panes) but have them
very good to show how it should be done (While still making the themes
available for upgraders). All we need is the module/theme/layout
installer and they would be able to download a theme and install it on
their site.

I'm still going to be out of the loop for a bit as I am quite busy but
I hope to jump back in as soon as I can as I did promise to do some
documentation etc.

I think difference of opinions actually makes things better. E.g. I
know charles doesn't like the style of the urls in rainbow, seo guys
do. But without Charles and others voicing their opinions I would have
focused on something else instead of implementing the provider pattern
for url builder (So that people had the freedom to add extra url
providers without touching the core).

So discussion is good. I agree that people should be upfront and
honest instead of not saying what they really want to say but I hope
that we can get along (Everyone hug now :D ) without it turning into
flame wars which I think everyone will agree benefits no-one.

P.S Hi Mark.....been a while matey...glad things are going well ;-)

John