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Theme Revamp

This is a global plan to revamp the theme infrastructure in Tiki. This is led by the

As of Tiki11, the Tiki theme infrastructure is increasingly due for a revamp to take advantage of advances in technology

Thus, in Tiki 13, we are going all out on

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When

The bulk of the work could be done at one or two

There are 3 target audiences

I just want to pick a nice theme

Here, we need more nicer bundled themes in Tiki. Ideally, we'd have access to

For them, themes is just one of a thousand features and they just pick it. (Can be documented at doc.tiki.org)

Point & Click themer

Professional designers

All the action should be on themes.tiki.org # Todo

To discuss

  • Deployment of themes: Mods or profiles? If we continue with mods, we should improve them
  • + One target: reduce module content specific rules with module zone specific rules (needed because a module can be placed anywhere, and different zones have different colors, etc.)
    • Consolidation of stylesheet files

    • Rethink function and location of various CSS files (css directory vs. styles directory, feature-specific (admin.css) vs. global (layout.css and theme stylesheets), etc.
      Reduce redundant rules (no need to specify body in three or four files, etc.)

  • SVG Icons using Raphael
  • CSS3 Buttons
  • Discuss theme strategy of other CMSs to see what we can learn and improve (
  • etc.
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