Kpairs Theme Schema

[Marco Calignano]

On 09/01/2011 01:23 PM, todd rme wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Aleix Pol<aleixpol at kde.org>  wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 8:06 AM, todd rme<toddrme2178 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Marco Calignano<marco.calignano at web.de>
>>> wrote:
>>>>    <!-- now come the list of the elements -->
>>>>    <element>
>>>>      <sound src='lion.ogg' />
>>>>      <video src='lion.ogv' />
>>>>      <image src='lion.svg' pref='1'/>
>>>>      <image src='baby_lion.svg' pref='2'/>
>>>>      <word lang='en'>lion</word>
>>>>    </element>
>>>> </pairs>
>>> Might it be a good idea to support named categories?  For example:
>>>
>>>      <sound src='lion.ogg'/>
>>>      <video src='lion.ogv' />
>>>      <image src='lion.svg'/>
>>>      <image src='baby_lion.svg' category='babies'/>
>>>      <word lang='en'>lion</word>
>>>      <word lang='en' category='babies'>cub</word>
>>>      <word lang='en' catrgory='groups'>pride</word>
>>>
>>> It would be optional, but if the category is specified it would be
>>> used in the title.  "Main" would be the one that gets the name of the
>>> whole theme.
>>>
>>> So the titles that would be displayed for the categories each of the
>>> above images uses would be, respectively:
>>>
>>> "Zoo sounds"
>>> "Zoo videos"
>>> "Zoo"
>>> "Zoo babies"
>>> "Zoo words"
>>> "Zoo babies words"
>>> "Zoo groups words"
>>>
>>> This would allow users to select specific pairs of categories.
>>>
>>> More specifically, the naming scheme for the "main" file type (image
>>> in this case), would be:
>>>
>>> <theme title>  <category (optional)>
>>>
>>> And the naming scheme for other file types (words, sounds, and videos
>>> in this case) would be:
>>>
>>> <theme title>  <category (optional)>  <file type>
>>>
>>> Of course the order would need to be localizable, since it wouldn't
>>> necessarily be the same in all languages.  There would also need to be
>>> a way to specify translations for categories, although this would
>>> probably be done in the initial segment of the document rather than in
>>> each entry (since the categories should be the same).
>>>
>>> -Todd
>> What's the difference with this and creating a new theme?
>> Aleix
> The advantage is that you wouldn't have to create a separate theme for
> every possible combination.  With this example, to get all the
> combinations you would need at least 6 themes, and the sounds and
> videos would need to be duplicated in every one of those themes.  And
> this was just to provide examples, a real zoo theme could have even
> more categories.  Here is a more complete example of what you could do
> with a zoo in this system:
>
> <sound src='lion.ogg'/>
> <video src='lion.ogv' />
> <image src='lion.svg'/>
> <image src='baby_lion.svg' category='babies'/>
> <image src='steak.svg' category='food'/>
> <image src='africa.svg' category='home'/>
> <image src='savanna.svg' category='enivornment'/>
> <word lang='en'>lion</word>
> <word lang='en' category='babies'>cub</word>
> <word lang='en' category='groups'>pride</word>
> <word lang='en' category='sounds'>roar</word>
I find the Idea with the category good and i think we should include it.
I would like also to close this discussion so we could start developing
the theme support, and you can start create wonderful themes ;).
If someone has any other suggestion, feel free to tell us

Thanks

Marco


>
> That would require 20 themes, each with their own copy of the video and sound.
>
> -Todd
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