[Owncloud] Theming and Formfactors

[Arthur Schiwon (Blizzz)]

On Wednesday 01 February 2012 16:05:50 Thomas Tanghus wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 February 2012 15:18 Frank Karlitschek wrote:
> > Theming:
> > I propose a similar system for the theming. We add a "theme" config option
> > to the config.php so that the theme can be configured during deployment
> > and
> > controlled from the outside without the need to understand our database
> > structure. We add "themes" directory into /core where every theme has a
> > directory named after the theme name. The template and css loader looks
> > into the selected theme directory first for templates and css files and
> > loads them if a file is present. If not it just falls back to the default
> > files in the individual app directories. This has the benefit that the
> > person who creates the themes can override what ever has to be changed but
> > don´t have to provide a complete new frontend. The directory structure
> > inside the themes folder is the same as the rest of owncloud. This means
> > that a theme developer can just put a different
> > "apps/contacts/css/styles.css" in the theme directory to change the style
> > of the contacts app.
> 
> I haven't kept up-to-date on what is possible with CSS nowadays, but
> couldn't we come a long way by using CSS variables [1]? Is it possible to
> include a stylesheet defining the color scheme into another CSS file?
> 
> Now the colors in /core/css/styles.css are hardcoded and I've had to copy
> some of them to the app stylesheet. It would be much easier just to change
> one file with color/border/etc definitions and use e.g.
> "var(mainbackgroundcolor)".
> 
> [1] http://disruptive-innovations.com/zoo/cssvariables/

Agree, it makes sense to define colors  in a basic theme file and use the 
variable. Although not everyone seem to love varialbes in CSS, it would make 
things simpler. Not only theming itself, but also specific styles in apps may 
look good in different themes.