[Phpmyadmin-devel] GSoC suggestion: themes

[Tyron Madlener]

> frames are gone from master... Also, in master some work has been done,

Sorry, my example was poorly written. What I meant is the CSS handling the
general layout of the page, like the left navgiation box, since it is
unlikely to change.


On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 10:00 PM, Marc Delisle <marc at infomarc.info> wrote:

> Tyron Madlener a écrit :
> > It could be a part of improving the whole theme handling altogether. I
> > think theming would be way easier if the CSS would be split into 2 parts.
> >
> > - Base CSS: All CSS Code that is unlikely to change (e.g. left frame <=>
> > right frame CSS)
>
> Hi Tyron,
>
> frames are gone from master... Also, in master some work has been done,
> to extract specific CSS (like jqplot.css.php) and put it under
> themes/pmahomme/css only.
>
> But I agree that it remains some repeated code in the two common.css.php
> files.
>
> Thanks for your suggestions.
>
> > - Theme CSS: All CSS Code that is likely to change (Colors, Fonts,
> Images,
> > etc.). This is being loaded after the Base CSS, so that it can still
> > overwrite it.
> >
> > Currently you need to edit a ton of CSS Code in order create a theme for
> > PMA. If the theme css however is reduced to a fraction of the code it
> > become way easier to edit it, I think.
> > Besides that, a cleanup of the css code would probably also help a lot in
> > reducing the size.
> >
> > And finally it might be worth looking at other languages like Less (
> > http://lesscss.org/)
> >
> > Just some ideas :-)
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 7:52 PM, Marc Delisle <marc at infomarc.info> wrote:
> >
> >> Rouslan Placella a écrit :
> >>> On 01/08/2013 12:46 PM, Marc Delisle wrote:
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>> not many themes have been contributed by the community for recent
> >>>> versions of phpMyAdmin. Maybe theme conversion could be a part of one
> >>>> GSoC student's project?
> >>>>
> >>> I thought that code generation was a mandatory requirement of GSoC, and
> >>> CSS does not qualify since there are no predefined semantics...
> >> Not sure what "predefined semantics" means, I'm too old ;)
> >>
> >> IMO (and in the Wikipedia definition of CSS), CSS is a programming
> >> language; anyway I asked the google-mentors mailing list about it, to
> >> see if we can get an authoritative answer.
> >>
> >> Note that I wrote "could be a part", not the whole project.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Marc Delisle
> >> http://infomarc.info
>
>
>
> --
> Marc Delisle
> http://infomarc.info
>
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