Re: [xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Link the color theme application to the skin

On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Guillaume "Louis-Marie" Delhumeau <gdelhumeau(a)xwiki.com> wrote: My question was not about the UI. I was talking strictly about the 'data'. A color theme is defined by a map of (property, value) pairs. The current color theme definition has some properties that are (I think) widely used. You propose a new color theme definition that has different properties. The reason is, you say, because the current color theme properties are skin dependent. I don't find this true, at least not entirely. Most of the current color theme properties seem skin independent to me, that's why I asked you to list the properties that you view as skin dependent. > Then, the new theme editor will propose to customize a set of variables > specific to bootstrap, just like: > http://fancyboot.designspebam.com/ > We are exposing the BS variables because it is flexible and powerful. > Mixing old color theme variables and bootstrap variables will not resulting > to a consistent set of variables, so that is why I am proposing to separate > the 2 cases. So the reason is not because the current color theme properties are skin dependent but because we want to use the bootstrap 'properties' (some of which are in the current color theme but with a different name?). Thanks, Marius > BTW, old color themes are still compatibles with Flamingo, because we have > a binding between the old color theme variables and the bootstrap > variables, but it is far from perfect. >>> Also, >> https://github.com/gdelhumeau/xwiki-platform/commit/49aca5733f4a820f3d1327c… >> shows that FlamingoThemeCode.ThemeClass has only two properties? >> body-bg and text-color, both present with a different name in >> ColorThemeClass. >> When I have posted the link above, I only wanted to show you the > modifications done on SkinAction.java. Of course, ThemeClass will not have > only two properties! This commit is a first step to have a proof of concept. > If you want to have the list of bootstrap variables, you could see there: > http://getbootstrap.com/customize/#less-variables > Of course we won't expose all these variables: it would be confusing for > the end user. We have to chose some of them. If the user wants to customize > variables that are not exposed, she can do that with the textarea field > where she can write LESS code. >>> Thanks, >> Marius >>> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 6:43 PM, Guillaume "Louis-Marie" Delhumeau >> <gdelhumeau(a)xwiki.com> wrote: >> > Hi devs. >> >> > I am implementing the Color Theme Editor for Flamingo! And this is a >> > preview: >> >> http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Proposal/ColorThemeforFlamingo/f… >> >> > Since the current color theme application is strongly linked to Colibri, >> > and the new application will be strongly linked to Flamingo, I propose >> the >> > following: >> >> > 1/ move xwiki-platform-colorthemes in xwiki-platform-colibri and state >> that >> > this application is only compatible with colibri-based skin. >> > 2/ create the new application in xwiki-platform-flamingo >> > 3/ the new color theme application will actually propose more than colors >> > (fonts, less code, etc...), so I propose to call it >> > xwiki-platform-flamingo-themes. >> > 4/ in the administration, we have a page that propose which color theme >> we >> > want to use. Since the new application will not be compatible with the >> old >> > one, I propose to add an extension point (such as what we have to >> configure >> > search suggest sources) in order to propose the themes corresponding to >> the >> > selected skin (ie: xobjects of ColorThemes.ColorThemeClass for colibri >> and >> > skins based on colibri, and xobjects of FlamingoThemeCode.ThemeClass for >> > flamingo). >> > 5/ modify SkinAction that currenlty executes velocity code on a skin file >> > if the mime type is CSS or JS, to also execute velocity on files suffixed >> > by .less.vm, because I need it for my application. To see what it looks >> > like, please look at >> >> https://github.com/gdelhumeau/xwiki-platform/commit/49aca5733f4a820f3d1327c… >> > . The alternative is to create a new action which is too much IMO. >> > 6/ when colibri will be deprecated on removed from XE, we will do the >> same >> > for the old color theme application. >> >> > WDYT? >> >> > Thanks, >> > Guillaume >> > _______________________________________________ >> > devs mailing list >> > devs(a)xwiki.org >> > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs >> _______________________________________________ >> devs mailing list >> devs(a)xwiki.org >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs >> Thanks, > Guillaume > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > devs(a)xwiki.org > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs