[development] Theme system

[Owen Barton]

Hi Chris,

One issue is that the "base theme" line should use the system name of the
theme, which is "bartik" (i.e. lowercase) rather than the "human" name -
see the example on https://drupal.org/node/225125. A new theme should show
up in the theme listing page right away. If you change the info file after
selecting the theme though, you will need to clear the cache (e.g. via the
button on the performance page, or with drush cc) for the changed lines to
be recognized.

Thanks!
- Owen


On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Chris Miller <cjm at tryx.org> wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> I am still trying to understand sub-themeing. I have four themes installed
> and two enabled. Bartik(enabled), Seven(enabled), Garland, Stark.  I tried
> a minimal, trivial sub-theme of Bartik by creating a subdirectory
> /sites/all/themes/bartik-cjm populated as follows:
>
> bartik-cjm/
> bartik-cjm.info
> css/
> local.css
>
> *bartik-cjm.info:*
>
> name = Bartik-cjm
> base theme = Bartik
>
> core = 7.x
>
> stylesheets[all][] = css/local.css
>
> According to everything I've read, and it has been a increasing amount,
> this should be sufficient to create a sub-theme named "Bartik-cjm" which
> inherits everything from Bartik and overrides local.css with my copy.  I
> believe I should see this as one of the options in admin/appearance, and I
> don't. I can see that $data[system_list][theme] is populated from the MySQL
> database (select * from cache_bootstrap where cid = "system_list";), which
> only has my original four themes in the serialized object.
>
> So, either the database must be updated somewhere, somehow, by someone,
> -- OR -- Drupal must look at the filesystem and realize that there is more
> to the story than the database knows and extend the list. So, how does
> Drupal become aware of the custom sub-theme?
> --
> Chris.
>
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