On 1/7/06, Jason Flatt drupal@oadae.net wrote:
Ha ha! Point taken. There is currently Theme Editor [0]. Could that be used as a starting point, or is that not enough?
I think even something like theme_editor is overly complex for a certain group of people who have Drupal sites, particularly those who are using it for a blog. CSS isn't overly complicated, but Drupal's CSS *is*, especially if you're trying to learn CSS by modifying Drupal's files.
I have several people at the Lab where I work that use a multisite Drupal installation as a blogging tool, and they want two things from their theme:
* something different than the canned styles * something they can play with on their own
Mostly, they just want different colors, and a bit of style here and there (rounded corners, background graphics, and so forth). Nothing overly complicated; they don't want to define dynamic pulldown menus or corner graphics for each block. Bluemarine with user-editable colors would make them quite happy.
I think what we should consider here is dusting off the old Polder theme, which, way back in the day, I was quite fond of. It had basically a canned look to it, but it allowed colors and other parameters to be modified through the admin interface:
http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/themes/polder/ (note, two years old, horribly broken)
Something like that would provide end-user customization, without having to get their hands dirty and brains overloaded with understanding Drupal's implementation of CSS.
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