Re: [themes] although it’s a very powerful CMS, I didn’t have the greatest time with it as it came to be one of the most cumbersome and roundabout pieces of software...

[Adrian Rossouw]

On 14 Jun 2006, at 8:10 PM, Kieran Lal wrote:

>
> The admin survey showed that fixing themes was the hardest thing to  
> do for Drupal administrators.  What we need are more anecdotes,  
> similar to what Ber showed us so we start a parallel effort to  
> PHPTemplate 2.0.  Anecdotes can lead to designer interviews which  
> can lead to broad surveys.
Regarding what Ber said.

One of the reasons we want to do the template stuff, is we have  
implemented a hook_widgets, which allows you to register all the  
theme functions
as well as provide default lipsums for them. Basically so we can  
build unit tests for the markup, and we can construct a single HTML page
containing all the elements that are themeable.

We need to get the templates patch in first though (and it's getting  
there).

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Adrian Rossouw
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