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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.

    • Related topics

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    Information Version
    06:26 UTC System Administrator automatic conversion 25
    Mon 13 of Jun, 2016 05:50 UTC Gary Cunningham-Lee URL corrected to fix 404 error. 24
    Fri 07 of Jun, 2013 15:02 UTC Marc Laporte 23
    Thu 06 of Jun, 2013 22:12 UTC Marc Laporte 22
    Sat 20 of Apr, 2013 21:45 UTC luci 21
    Sun 14 of Apr, 2013 15:37 UTC Marc Laporte 20
    Sun 14 of Apr, 2013 15:36 UTC Marc Laporte 19
    Sat 23 of Mar, 2013 14:14 UTC Marc Laporte 18
    Wed 20 of Mar, 2013 19:29 UTC Marc Laporte 17
    Fri 15 of Mar, 2013 13:42 UTC Marc Laporte 16
    Tue 05 of Mar, 2013 21:25 UTC Marc Laporte 15
    Tue 05 of Mar, 2013 21:25 UTC Marc Laporte 14
    Mon 15 of Oct, 2012 04:47 UTC Marc Laporte 13
    Mon 15 of Oct, 2012 04:33 UTC Marc Laporte 12
    Mon 15 of Oct, 2012 04:24 UTC Marc Laporte 11
    Mon 15 of Oct, 2012 04:18 UTC Marc Laporte 10
    Mon 15 of Oct, 2012 03:44 UTC Marc Laporte 9
    Mon 15 of Oct, 2012 03:37 UTC Marc Laporte 8
    Mon 15 of Oct, 2012 03:32 UTC Marc Laporte 7
    Mon 15 of Oct, 2012 03:30 UTC Marc Laporte 6
    Mon 15 of Oct, 2012 03:28 UTC Marc Laporte 5
    Mon 15 of Oct, 2012 03:15 UTC Marc Laporte 4
    Mon 15 of Oct, 2012 03:12 UTC Marc Laporte 3
    Mon 15 of Oct, 2012 03:06 UTC Marc Laporte Copied over from dev.tiki.org/Tiki11 2
    Mon 15 of Oct, 2012 02:54 UTC Marc Laporte 1
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