[Koha-devel] The future of the prog templates

[Paul POULAIN]

Owen Leonard a écrit :
> What does everyone think?

My opinion is :
- we have 2 different templates design for librarian interface in Koha 
2.2, and IT'S A PAIN (yes, I cry !) We MUST avoid at all cost the need 
of more than 1 template in rel_3_0 !!! For OPAC, it's not so critic, as 
there are "only" 15 templates or so. but I think it could be a good 
thing to have only 1 set of templates for OPAC.

- I've added a include_dir systempreference in cvs that let the library 
define it's own includes directory content. the includes directory 
contains all CSS, but also all templates headers, menus & footers. That 
introduces a 2nd level of customization (css only being the 1st one).

- I think http://www.tjkdesign.com/articles/3cols.asp is close from what 
we have now (and comes 80% from npl templates) : we have a menu level 
(=header, on the left by default for PROG), a module menu level (= 
sidebar, on the top by default for PROG), an action level, for all 
actions we can do on a page (= left, on the top by default for PROG).
I even have added some options in the CSS to show how to move the action 
bar to the right in just a CSS modif.

- The coding guidelines says that every div should have a unique ID 
(even if I know it's not 100% followed)

So my opinion is that PROG templates will be the default one for 3.0 (it 
is already, as all default templates have been removed ;-) ) AND we can 
continue improving them, knowing that we already have a strong & 
customizable basis.

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