2.0 Themes and Templating

[Ian Monroe]

Hey xatax! :)

Currently the plan is to make Amarok's ContextView a QGraphicsView
(Qt's new fancy QCanvas). So theming will be problematic probably...
it might be more like scripting.

Ian

On 3/19/07, Reigo Reinmets <reigo at reinmets.ee> wrote:
> Hei,
>
> I'm one of the original Themeing support authors. Although the last time
> i touched amaroK's code was around a year ago i still remember most of it :)
> Amarok's HTML is pretty much xhtml compliant(although it won't probably
> validate) and uses mostly divs with ID's and Classes. Although you can't
> do All in one themes currently because the html is different for all the
> tabs, but it does allow you to change the layout.. you could easly use
> fixed positioning or floatings to move the div's around. I think we even
> provided a list of all the possible ID and Class names with some example
> theme.
>
> I quess for Amarok 2.0 alot will be changed, and hopefully somebody
> bothers to create some themeing support.. Currently it's pretty much
> static html.
>
> PS: Creating a themeing engine as powerful as smarty would require umm..
> around 1000 human-slave work hours i quess :) But a simpler one would
> probably be easyer to create. Maybe there already is something like that
>   in some strange KDE application? Quanta?
>
> Gleb Litvjak wrote:
> > On Sunday 18 March 2007 09:50:31 Emil Sedgh wrote:
> >> AmaroK currently has Theme support for its Context Bar.But these themes are
> >> not more than easy CSS Files.so Designers cannot change the real look of
> >> the context bar.
> >> I Suggest a Templating System to be used in 2.0 (like Smarty in PHP).
> >> You pass some variables to HTML File and Theme.html (For example) which
> >> Designer will include in his theme will use them.
> >> with this, HTML Designers will able to implement Tabs (Lyrics, Music and
> >> Wikipedia Page)with some Javascript in their HTML Themes if they want,
> >> else, they could use theme all in once...and there could be hundreds of
> >> different looks.
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> > Hello Emil,
> >
> > I am a PHP programmer too, and use Smarty a lot. I like your idea, though I
> > see several difficulties:
> >
> > Currently, Amarok itself generates the HTML files. To implement templates,
> > Amarok should either include a templating engine, or use an external one.
> > Moreover, this operation is more CPU-intensive (although this would be hard
> > to notice on modern systems). Also, this would require more work and skills
> > from theme designers (which could be partly solved by providing example
> > templates with comments).
> >
> > I am not an Amarok developer, so my answer is not authoritative, just some
> > thoughts :)
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Gleb Litvjak
> >
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