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Re: [Tikiwiki-devel] Old themes as theme options (was Re: update: Freetag search generates error in TW 2.2)
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From: J B. <jm...@no...> - 2009-01-22 13:39:27
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Doesn't sounds too tricky (the CSS one) - add another another pref called "sitemycss" and stick a textarea under the sitemycode one, then get headerlib to write it into the head of the page after the other css's. Sounds like sense to everyone? I'm game! Not a clue about the translation one, sorry... jonny On 22 Jan 2009, at 02:35, Marc Laporte wrote: > Hi! > > Another thing that would help with maintenance: > > Custom CSS values which overrides chosen CSS (and are kept in database > to be future-proof) > http://dev.tikiwiki.org/wish1320 > > And, in this case, we could distribute them via profiles. And thus, > these override/options could be community maintained in wiki pages. > > > And similarly, for translations > Custom language translations in the database and administered via > web interface > http://dev.tikiwiki.org/tiki-view_tracker_item.php?itemId=1771 > > Thanks! > > M ;-) > > > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 7:11 AM, Gary Cunningham-Lee > <ga...@cu...> wrote: >> I think "legacy" should have "modern" underpinnings. After all, >> what we >> want to preserve is the look, etc., of the legacy themes, not their >> old-school layout methods. Also tikineat.css uses mozilla CSS >> extensions >> (like corner radius) that cause validation errors, and it has >> missed out >> on some maintaining/improving (I for one haven't touched it while >> updating other themes because I figure it's on its way out). >> >> Going down the list, Tikinewt has the tableless layout method and %/ >> em >> font sizes but otherwise retains most of the old CSS of Tikineat. >> Darkroom is up to date, but its light-on-dark coloring will cause >> problems for themes that expect default dark text on light >> background, >> which is more common, so I think shouldn't be used except maybe by >> other >> light-on-dark themes. The News and Feb12, in trunk, are good >> candidates >> and of these I think Feb12 has better CSS file content organization. >> >> The themes in experimental/ui-revamp are pretty close to their trunk >> equivalents at this point except for having the branch's page control >> selectors/properties and redone CSS menus to support the page >> controls >> and search button as well as the normal site menus. (See >> http://zukakakina.com/ui/ for a branch experimental-revamp test >> install >> where PHP layers menus are turned off and CSS menus are used >> instead.) >> Coelesce is essentially the same CSS as the other core themes >> except for >> its own visual styling and special treatment in the site header for >> the >> search form there. Feb12 has fewer theme-specific details than >> Coelese, >> so probably would need less CSS property overriding in the option >> theme >> file. >> >> -- Gary >> >> J Bradley wrote: >>> + me too - yes, good idea. >>> >>> I keep spotting other places where theme options need implementing >>> (group themes f'rincetance) so i'll try and nail them all soon. >>> >>> Should "legacy" be based on tikineat? (as it's not using @lite afaik >>> and i think was due to be dropped) >>> >>> By the way, which is the best new theme to use as a "master" >>> template? >>> Darkroom seems to get quite a lot of attention... but what about >>> coalesce (on ui.tw.o)? >>> >>> jonny >>> >>> On 21 Jan 2009, at 08:58, Xavier de Pedro wrote: >>> >>>> +1 >>>> Good point Gary, and Jonny for coding it on tiki 3 >>>> Xavi >>>> >>>> En/na Gary Cunningham-Lee ha escrit: >>>>> Hi all, >>>>> >>>>> About geo and other old themes, we talked before about having a >>>>> basic >>>>> css file for layout, and then "style" css files that apply >>>>> specific >>>>> coloring and so on. An easy way to do this now would be to use >>>>> trunk's >>>>> theme option feature that Jonny added. How about having a >>>>> "legacy.css" >>>>> (or other neutral name) as the foundation and then "geo.css" and >>>>> other >>>>> older themes still being used as the theme options. These theme >>>>> options >>>>> would just overwrite or add properties specific to the particular >>>>> legacy >>>>> theme. This method would make it easy to maintain old themes as >>>>> long as >>>>> they don't need special templates. I'll try to get a start on >>>>> this. >>>>> >>>>> -- Gary >>>>> >>>>> J Bradley wrote: >>>>>> Hi Günther - replying on the devel list in case it's relevant for >>>>>> anyone else. >>>>>> >>>>>> Looks like it's /templates/styles/geo/modules/mod-login_box.tpl >>>>>> that >>>>>> must be to blame - probably would be easiest to just delete (or >>>>>> rename >>>>>> it) it if you want to keep on that theme. >>>>>> >>>>>> The Geo themes don't seem to have made it into tiki 3 so far, >>>>>> as no- >>>>>> one's updated them, but i have a site that used to use it, so i >>>>>> might >>>>>> have a go one day... >>>>>> >>>>>> Glad we got it fixed >>>>>> >>>>>> jonny >>>>> >>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>>> This SF.net email is sponsored by: >>>>> SourcForge Community >>>>> SourceForge wants to tell your story. >>>>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Tikiwiki-devel mailing list >>>>> Tik...@li... >>>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tikiwiki-devel >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> ----------- >>>> UB Physical Optics Research Group >>>> Departament de Física Aplicada i Òptica >>>> Facultat de Fisica. 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