Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] Templates class, CSS support and print view support

[Chris Weiss]

Templates that fail to support themes annoy me.  For instance the Linux at Work
template is a great layout but the coloring is really painfull to those of us 
that
aren't color blind.  So I made a copy of the template, made it support themes, 
and
now I'm happy.

The "right" way would be to make a theme to go with your template, like 
idsociety
has.

Andy Mayer (address@hidden) wrote*:
>
>> Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) support:
>> I am adding a way for template sets and apps to more easily and
>> consistantly support CSS.
>
>I am new to phpgw, but I doubt the value of having themes control
>different style sheets for the same template set.
>
>My preference would be that the designer makes the visual/HTML design
>in the template files and that's the end of it; no different colour
>themes or selectable CSS options. If he chooses to use CSS to implement
>his design, then it should be coded in the head.tpl of the template and
>the user is then forced to use the gui exactly as the designer designed
>it. Other specific user requirements (eg. colour changes, browser
>compatibility issues) should be dealt with by designing a completely
>different template set to specificially suit those requirements.
>
>>From a web-interface perspective, it's seems mad to me that a template
>should be designed, then only to be messed up by the possibility of
>changing CSS and themes colours later on. Also, the overhead of
>supporting this in the visual design means that we only end up with
>lame templates that try to do everything but end up looking second-rate
>and not actualy adding much value.
>
>Does that make sense?
>
>Look at a template set here that uses a "hard coded CSS" and doesn't
>support themes:
>
>http://www.andymayer.net/screen.jpg
>
>Just my 2$
>
>Andy Mayer
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