[themes] Theme generator

puregin puregin at puregin.org
Sat Jan 7 19:48:37 UTC 2006


On 6-Jan-2006, at 4:16 PM, Khalid B wrote:

> I agree it is a very strange choice.

     Haven't looked at the code, but perhaps it's not
such a strange choice after all.   Excel is probably
used for more programming than all other
languages combined :)  Of course most of the
programs are trivial, and most of the non-trivial
ones are a mistake, but...

> Due to the "pushy salesman/marketeer" style of writing, I suspected it
> was a hoax from someone promoting an unrelated site.

       I like the 'random color theme generator feature :)
>
> However, you can see that the guy is an Excel guru, and hence coded
> the theme generator in VBA!
>
> Lots of people are on his site asking for support, making  
> comments, ...etc.
>
> My points are: a) people will use what they know, and b) there is a
> dire need for this.
>
> So, referring to the other discussion on Super Theme, we might as well
> do something that runs in Drupal and allows changing color and maybe
> layout, otherwise someone will code it in IBM 360 assembler.

     Emacs lisp would be my first choice :)

>
> On 1/6/06, Jason Flatt <drupal at oadae.net> wrote:
>> On Friday 06 January 2006 12:34, Khalid B wrote:
>>> Has anyone seen this?
>>>
>>> http://drupal.org/node/43525
>>> http://drupal.org/node/43449
>>> http://xlecom.com/?q=node/117
>>



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