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. > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > [email protected] > http://freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [email protected] http://freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
