I started this forum thread as a place to capture designs that people would
like to see ported to Drupal and also a place for theme developers to
"volunteer" for some of the porting work. As you can see the thread has
gotten quite long. At last count (and I think I'm a little behind) there
have been 25 designs suggested (including the Millio design discussed on the
dev list), with 14 designs having a volunteer, and at least 4 (maybe 5
completed).
My question to the community (and the maintainers of themes.drupal.org)
Should this list be moved to themes.drupal.org? Is there value in
maintaining an ongoing wish list of desirable designs? If we think there is
value but we don't think it belongs on themes.drupal.org then any
suggestions for a home?
Adrian Rossouw wrote:
> What I would like to see us do, is remove all html from module files and
> move them into tpl.php files.
Fantastic idea. I'm all for it. But on behalf of people using other template
engines, will it work with anything but phptemplate?
> while we are doing this, we completely refactor all the html
Again an excellent idea, and whilst doing it all at once is a big job it
really gives us the opportunity to standardize.
> you can override any theme function by just copying the file
> to your theme directory, no fucking around with template.php.
Which makes it even easier. Nice.
> It becomes a LOT simpler to write a theme editor,
Not so excited about that one. I've got BBEdit, Smultron, Dreamweaver,
Quanta Plus and CSSED. Professional tools win out over in page editors every
time :)
Still, I can see that certain people and companies using Drupal would
welcome that.
> it becomes possible to distribute alternative template files, like
> different node views etc.
That's also excellent!
I don't suppose we could also say that modules don't need to ship with their
own CSS files could we?
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Adrian Simmons (aka adrinux) <http://adrinux.perlucida.com>
e-mail <mailto:adrinux@perlucida.com>
On Mar 8, 2006, at 3:36 AM, Adrian Rossouw wrote:
> http://www.mollio.org/
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> please =)
In our administration research we identified themes as the most
difficult part of working with Drupal. So we set up a
themes(a)drupal.org mailing list to build a focused community to
address theme issues.
Unfortunately, it's not really taken off because people(Adrian, Ber,
Nick this week alone) keep posting theme related issues to the
development list. There hasn't been a new post since Feb 26th on the
themes list.
I'll leave it to your discretion where to post but Drupal themes
mailing lists need support.
As a side note we have people demanding that new mailing lists be set
up for events management but at the same time existing lists like
documentation and themes are running at or close to idle. It's
pretty hard to keep defending that Drupal work be coordinated through
drupal.org if we don't even use our own tools.
Cheers,
Kieran
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