Re: [Slashcode-development] css_types?

[Tim V. <tv...@va...>]

After talking to you online I'll just add the text and link to the FAQ you
added since that covers all the possibilities well.

http://slash.lottadot.com/faqster.pl?op=view&fid=2#q110
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If the plugin's css file is to be shown only when your plugin's perl 
script is run (ie plugin.pl) then you should create the plugin with 
type='page'.

If the plugin's css file is to be shown when another script is run, then 
it should still be 'page'.

If the plugin's css file is to be shown all the time, then use type 'base'.
That way, a site's theme can still over-ride the plugin's style sheet.
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user_theme is one of the last css types called so basically would allow 
a user
to override a site's look and feel.  Right now this is used for 
simpledesign,
and lowbandwidth types.

You could for instance add a preference that allowed a user to set their
sitewide theme to one of 5 choices.  Right now the theme selection in
getCSS() in MySQL.pm checks for a user's simpledesign preference
and picks a css file based on that, or if that's not set falls back to 
$user->{css_theme};

If you had a preference which updated that, you could have user selected
themes, simpledesign being one option, that's currently controlled by a 
different
preference.

The skeleton is there to allow for such things, however we may need to 
separate
out simpledesign into its own thing if we want to allow for both 
simpledesign, and
a user_theme to be triggered at the same time.

--Tim


Shane wrote:

> question regarding the css_type table:
>
> currently I see these types defined:
>
> mysql> select * from css_type;
> +------+------------+----------+
> | ctid | name       | ordernum |
> +------+------------+----------+
> |    1 | base       |        1 |
> |    2 | page       |        2 |
> |    3 | theme      |        3 |
> |    4 | user_theme |        5 |
> |    5 | print      |        6 |
> |    6 | skin       |        4 |
> |    7 | handheld   |        7 |
> +------+------------+----------+
> 7 rows in set (0.13 sec)
>
>
> if a plugin adds a .css file, what should the type be? (I thought  
> maybe 'plugin', but there's no such type).
>
> what's the 'user_theme' for?
>
>  Shane
>
>
>
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