[themes] So what about a super theme?

Egon Bianchet egon.bianchet at gmail.com
Tue Jan 3 10:05:12 UTC 2006


Il giorno mar, 03/01/2006 alle 10.49 +0100, Bèr Kessels ha scritto:
> Op maandag 02 januari 2006 22:45, schreef Gunnar Langemark:
> > Is anybody else dreaming of such a super theme? I think there could even
> > be a business model in this?
> 
> Allthough this can be really cool for end-users i see two reasons why its not 
> there, and why it I dont really need it. 
> 1) we, who would make this are developers. We don't need this ourselves. For 
> theme developers, making a CSS file is often easier then clicking around in 
> UIs. 
> 2) once you rolled out a site, and need to publish/move/update/release it, all 
> your theme stuff is in the database. That is hard to maintain. Much harder 
> then when you can use your default tools (editors, RCS, uploads, etc).
> 
> Ber

It could be simpler, end-user oriented: you would be able to define and
choose colors schemes (just say five colours), and choose among a given
set of standard layouts (one column, two column, etc.).

This way I guess it could be implemented with simple system variables.

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Egon Bianchet <egon.bianchet at gmail.com>



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