[themes] So what about a super theme?

[Khalid B]

Gunnar

I like what I read  here.

If you manage to get this going, it  would be the killer feature that Drupal
is  waiting for.

If site admins can change colors and layout on the  fly with little HTML
or  CSS knowledge,  then the possibilities are infinite!

On 1/2/06, Gunnar Langemark <gunnar at langemark.com> wrote:
> I dream of this super theme with extensive configuration capabilities.
>
> It would be a theme AND an admin module actually, and it would work like
> a theme generator.
> You would have color-schemes, layouts, content areas etc.
>
> For instance you would have a configuration of the color-scheme or
> palette, which would give you a number of choices: select a predefined
> (ten schemes provided with the theme default), download a shared scheme
> (via an xml-feed?) from a theme provider site, create your own
> interactively (perhaps like this:
> http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html), and perhaps then share them.
> (Ajax anyone?)
>
> You would have an area in which to layout blocks of content
> interactively by adding, dragging and dropping (colored) squares in a
> screen area simulating the browser window. When clicking on a square you
> would be prompted to ad content - a node, a node type, a taxonomy term etc.
> These layouts could be shared too - via xml, and there would be a few
> (10) presets in the default super theme, and you could run a service
> providing your own layout templates.
>
> There would be no practical limits to where you could put what content,
> and it would be possible to define areas on your site with a certain
> layout.
>
> Is anybody else dreaming of such a super theme? I think there could even
> be a business model in this?
> I know Drupal is capable of doing some of this. I just think all Drupal
> users should have a "theme generator" module, and I'd like it to be
> interactive and Ajax'ed somehow.
>
> Best
> Gunnar
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