On 6 May 2013 20:08, Mason James <mtj@kohaaloha.com> wrote:
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 disagree, the problem has not ever been, nor is it, a technical one. Just because we can support themes that include differing xslt, includes has never meant we had to. I agree that having only one officially supported template is a good thing, however I don't agree with making it impossible to let people do it. So +1 for only one supported theme, -1 for trying to achieve that by technical means, just make a policy and stick to it .. problem solved. Then those of us who use the themes locally can not have a feature ripped out from under us. Chris