Kpairs Theme Schema

[todd rme]

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Marco Calignano <marco.calignano at web.de> wrote:
> 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

Is there not going to be a discussion on the format of the theme first?

-Todd