[Koha-devel] Theme and language settings.....

[paul POULAIN]

Finlay Thompson wrote:

>Hi everyone,
>
>Steve, Chris and I have just had a little discuss about the design of
>the theme and language setting process.
>
>This is the resulting proposal:
>
>There are three levels where the theme can be found:
>
>1) on the borrowers table. Each user can set there prefered theme and
>language.
>
>2) on a new workstation table. This table will store an IP address for a
>machine and various settings will be possible. At the moment only theme
>and language. Perhaps also a list of admissible themes and languages?
>
>3) in the systempreferences table.
>
>
>Each script shouild have the following template selecting line:
>
>my $template = gettemplate("opac-main.tmpl", "opac");
>
>for example where the template is opac-main.tmpl
>
>The gettemplate subroutine is in Output.pm. The individual scripts dont
>need to "use HTML::Template;" only Output.pm
>
>The gettemplate sub goes and looks in the above three places in the
>order specified.
>
>All of these settings will can be space seperated (maybe they should be
>comma seperated?)  lists: like "sp fr en" for language. And it will
>search in that order.
>
>There will be no cookies!
>
>This is the first approx. If people have some special requests we can
>add an options hash to the gettemplate argument to control special
>behaiviour but I wont do that until we need it.
>
>Progress:
>The gettemplate routine is written! But I need to do some more stuff to
>get the user and IP preferences settup.....
>  
>
The idea 2) won't work well with DHCP'ed networks ;-\\\
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Paul