[Koha-devel] OPAC themes

Julian Maurice julian.maurice at biblibre.com
Fri Oct 5 08:51:50 CEST 2012


Le 04/10/2012 21:51, Owen Leonard a écrit :
> The new CCSR theme which will be included in 3.10 demonstrates how a
> theme can be made responsive, so that the design and layout of a page
> can change depending on the device width.
>
> I think the "default" Koha OPAC should use this technique too.
>
> Making this kind of change gives us the opportunity to make other
> changes too, and I'd love to hear from others about what changes those
> might be, whether they be ideas about the design, layout, or
> structure. Some ideas off the top of my head:
>
> - Use the Bootstrap framework both for the responsive CSS grid and for
> the interface widgets (buttons, menus, etc)--but not be slavish to the
> default Bootstrap design.
> - Use consistent indentation rules on all templates
> - Move JavaScript to the bottom of the page (recommended for efficiency)
> - Address the needs of people who want to do customization via CSS and
> JavaScript. To that end I'd love to hear from the people who are doing
> customizations for libraries about their paint points--what aspects of
> the OPAC are difficult to change.
>
> I'd like to start working on this, but I think to do it right I think
> we need some shared goals.
>
>   -- Owen
>


- Use BLOCK, PROCESS and WRAPPER Template::Toolkit directives 
everywhere. I think this could greatly reduces the size of template 
files and make writing of templates much easier.


My 2 cents.

-- 
Julian Maurice <julian.maurice at biblibre.com>
BibLibre


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