[Koha-devel] OPAC dir structure redesign
Mason James
mtj at kohaaloha.com
Mon May 6 10:29:11 CEST 2013
On 2013-05-6, at 8:21 PM, Mirko wrote:
> Mason James schrieb am 06.05.2013
>
>>
>> On 2013-05-6, at 5:42 PM, Katrin Fischer wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I agree that maintaining 2 themes is a bit harder to do in
>>> Koha development,
>>
>>> but I am not sure this necessarily means we have to remove
>>> functionality that could be quite useful for some Koha
>>> projects.
>>>
>>> Couldn't we keep the functionality and still decide to only
>>> officially support one theme in releases?
>>
>>
>> I'm just going to say this.. we have already make this mistake a
>> few times now with Koha and themes
>>
>> afaik, Koha has had at least 3 previous themes, using the current
>> directory structure
>>
>> ensuring that those previous theme files were maintained and
>> correct proved to be an impossible task, and all of those themes
>> were eventually removed
>>
>>
>> i am certain if we don't fix this problem, for this cycle of
>> themes - the same fate will occur again...
>>
>
> I think what Katrin is saying -- and I'd like to concur with -- is
> that we should keep the function, not keep maintaining different
> themes. There would only be one maintained theme in Koha out of the
> box and libraries that use their own custom theme will have to
> maintain it themselves.
>
> The whole theme thing is kind of irrelevant if we reduce it to CSS,
> we can have that in the appropriate sysprefs.
>
> My library actually just has decided to create a custom theme for
> the university's corporate identity, so I am biased, but I assume a
> lot of libraries will run into problems if that functionality will
> disappear.
>
> -- Mirko
yeah, i was just talking to Chris on IRC, and i now agree with you both :P
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