Dan Espen
2016-05-19 19:35:09 UTC
Just had an opportunity to look at Fvwm.Org, it looks pretty nice.
I thought we were going to retain the themeing, but I don't see
it.
Not a real problem.
Being a static site and only using html and javascript it makes being
able to switch themes not as practical as it was when the site was php
(also makes the site way easier to maintain and update). So the
initial build of the new site was just to remove the php and use a
static site builder (jekyll) to build the site with a single theme.
I still had in my mind that themes would be nice to change. I built
the site using mostly css, so a simple change to the theme is to just
change the css file, but this requires three things.
1) Someone to build a new theme .css file.
2) Figuring out how to use javascript to load the correct .css file.
3) Deal with any issues that arise. Even though I tried to do
everything with .css, more than just the .css files
may need to be modified when trying to write a new theme to get it to
work correctly.
So as of now (and mostly likely for a while) there won't be themes.
But they could be added if someone wanted to invest the time.
Yeah, I don't think I want to invest the time either.I thought we were going to retain the themeing, but I don't see
it.
Not a real problem.
Being a static site and only using html and javascript it makes being
able to switch themes not as practical as it was when the site was php
(also makes the site way easier to maintain and update). So the
initial build of the new site was just to remove the php and use a
static site builder (jekyll) to build the site with a single theme.
I still had in my mind that themes would be nice to change. I built
the site using mostly css, so a simple change to the theme is to just
change the css file, but this requires three things.
1) Someone to build a new theme .css file.
2) Figuring out how to use javascript to load the correct .css file.
3) Deal with any issues that arise. Even though I tried to do
everything with .css, more than just the .css files
may need to be modified when trying to write a new theme to get it to
work correctly.
So as of now (and mostly likely for a while) there won't be themes.
But they could be added if someone wanted to invest the time.
At work I had themes on my web pages because I insisted on a default
black background and I wanted to be ready for the clowns suggesting
I used corporate colors.
On the web I found some Javascript that stored a cookie and the
main page had a dialog to set and save the cookie.
I noticed that the PHP had the Firefox View->PageStyle populated
with the theme options. I never did look into how to get
that to work with JavaScript.
Anyway, if I ever did want to invest the time to bring back
themes, it would be for the purpose to demonstrate Fvwm
Customization, so that the theme could show handles vs. no handles,
borderwidth, etc.
Anyway, looks nice.
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Dan Espen
Dan Espen