On Friday 20 November 2009 19:31:40 Christian Funder Sommerlund (Zero3) wrote: > Ian Clarke skrev: > > I think our current problem is that despite our best efforts, the > > current UI is built "from the code forward", rather than "from the user > > back", and as such I think it is fundamentally flawed. Despite how much > > we try, I think it is very difficult for us to put ourselves in the > > shoes of an ordinary Freenet user, we are already too immersed in the > > concepts and jargon of Freenet. > > One of the main issues (IMHO) is that modifying the current GUI is > nearly impossible as a contributing user. There are no theme templates > available to easily play around with. Last I heard was that you have to > actually recompile Freenet if you want to make any GUI changes besides > smallish CSS hacks :/.
All the themeing is in CSS, themes can change a lot (compare the minimalist theme to just about any other theme). > > I think we have a long standing bug report somewhere about the > implementation of a theming engine... Themeing engines have been discussed but generally are rather heavyweight (big!) and usually not much easier to use than hacking the java code itself - because major changes require, at some point, some sort of programming language!
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