[Owncloud] Theming and Formfactors

Thomas Tanghus thomas at tanghus.net
Wed Feb 1 20:20:50 UTC 2012


On Wednesday 01 February 2012 16:30 Evert Pot wrote:
> On Feb 1, 2012, at 4:27 PM, Arthur Schiwon (Blizzz) wrote:
> > On Wednesday 01 February 2012 16:05:50 Thomas Tanghus wrote:
> >> On Wednesday 01 February 2012 15:18 Frank Karlitschek wrote:
> >>> Theming:
> >> 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.
> 
> http://lesscss.org/  / http://leafo.net/lessphp/
> 
> Perhaps? Once you try it, you don't wanna go back..

I do like the look of that, but I'm also afraid it would unnecessarily add to 
the complexity.

BTW: I can't imagine any reasons not to love variables in CSS?

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Med venlig hilsen / Best Regards

Thomas Tanghus



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