Any recommendations or best practices tips on creating and managing custom 
themes?

The UI customization page lists a number of methods -- edit the existing 
DSpace or custom theme, make a copy of the DSpace or custom theme, create 
an entirely new theme from scratch, or possibly "extend" the existing 
DSpace/custom theme -- but I'm wondering if anyone has practical 
experience/tips now that we're 5 major revisions into the 7.x release.  
i.e. how are you managing the inclusion of any fixes to those core 
DSpace/custom themes into your own theme as new versions of the DSpace UI 
are released?  Creating a copy of one of the existing themes seems like it 
would make the job of incorporating fixes harder.

I've been toying with the idea of creating a branch from the current 
release (from the  dspace-7.5 tag for example) and then just making changes 
in the "custom" theme directory.  When 7.6 is released, I should 
(hopefully) be able to just merge the dspace-7.6 tag into my working branch 
and easily get all the fixes that were made to the custom theme. I've yet 
to put that to the test though.

How are the rest of you dealing with themes and version upgrades?

- Darryl


*-----**Darryl Friesen*
*, BSc*Programmer/Analyst

*University of Saskatchewan**ICT / University Library*

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