I agree. I spent time implementing theme flags (my minimalist theme
uses them a lot to change stuff on the main page for example), and the
rest can be done with CSS.

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Matthew Toseland
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Friday 15 October 2010 16:28:06 Christian Funder Sommerlund wrote:
>> Ian Clarke skrev:
>> > I saw a story about this website on CNN this
>> > morning: http://www.kickstarter.com/  It allows people to donate to
>> > ideas that they want to see realized.
>> >
>> > I think one of the best ways to make sure that Freenet gets a new UI
>> > would be to raise funding specifically earmarked for this task, perhaps
>> > so that we could hire someone to work alongside Matthew, but with a
>> > specific focus on redesigning Freenet's user interaction, right from
>> > download, through installation, to using the software.
>> >
>> > Thoughts?
>>
>> IMHO it still boils down to actually implementing a theming engine
>> (which has been discussed a couple of times earlier) so that it is
>> actually possible to easily change the interface...
>>
>> I'm not sure we even need money to get new themes. We just need to make
>> it possible for people to create them (*without* having to do it in Java
>> and recompile after every single change!).
>
> There is a difference between structure and theme. Theme can be perfectly 
> adequately handled in CSS. Structure requires changes to the HTML.
>
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