[Koha-devel] OPAC dir structure redesign

[Mason James]

On 2013-05-6, at 8:21 PM, Mirko wrote:

> Mason James schrieb am 06.05.2013
> 
>> 
>> 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 think what Katrin is saying -- and I'd like to concur with -- is
> that we should keep the function, not keep maintaining different
> themes. There would only be one maintained theme in Koha out of the
> box and libraries that use their own custom theme will have to
> maintain it themselves.
> 
> The whole theme thing is kind of irrelevant if we reduce it to CSS,
> we can have that in the appropriate sysprefs.
> 
> My library actually just has decided to create a custom theme for
> the university's corporate identity, so I am biased, but I assume a
> lot of libraries will run into problems if that functionality will
> disappear.
> 
> -- Mirko



yeah, i was just talking to Chris on IRC, and i now agree with you both :P