[Koha-devel] OPAC dir structure redesign

[Chris Cormack]

On 6 May 2013 20:08, Mason James <mtj at kohaaloha.com> wrote:
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> On 2013-05-6, at 5:42 PM, Katrin Fischer wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> I agree that maintaining 2 themes is a bit harder to do in Koha
>> development,
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>> but I am not sure this necessarily means we have to remove
>> functionality that could be quite useful for some Koha projects.
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>> Couldn't we keep the functionality and still decide to only officially
>> support one theme in releases?
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> I'm just going to say this..
> we have already make this mistake a few times now with Koha and themes
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> afaik, Koha has had at least 3 previous themes, using the current directory structure
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> ensuring that those previous theme files were maintained and correct proved to be an impossible task, and all of those themes were eventually removed
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> i am certain if we don't fix this problem, for this cycle of themes - the same fate will occur again...
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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