On 20/07/2010, at 10:37 AM, AJ Mercer wrote: > With the theme / skin management from nearCry make it into the farcry distro?
The "theme management" in NearCry is just about switching the plugin list and reinitialising the app. It requires that the project "theme" or "look and feel" be encapsulated in a plugin rather than in the project itself. Ideally we'd envisaged having plugins as themes everywhere, with the project being virtually empty for basic installs. This would allow folks to easily swap in and out themes. In essence all the parts are there -- the engineering work is done. We just need a bunch of themes to showcase how it all works. Problem is we (the Daemonites) typically build larger, bespoke solutions -- so setting up "instant sites" for beginners is something we do as purely a fun thing; its not something we can readily utilise ourselves. That said, the theme technology is awesome for the clients where we run "sub-sites" -- that's why it got built and why it works so well (even if its not currently showcased in the basic install). What we call a "sub-site" is the same application run with a different plugin list and a different branch of the tree for the hierarchy -- its still the same app, it just the plugin list changes dynamically based on the URL. For example, the following sites are basically just content segments of exactly the same application with a different theme loaded: http://www.bluescopesteel.com.au/case-study/zero-energy-house http://www.colorbond.com/case-study/zero-energy-house http://www.lysaght.com/case-study/zero-energy-house Awesome, eh. -- geoff http://www.daemon.com.au/ -- You received this message cos you are subscribed to "farcry-dev" Google group. To post, email: [email protected] To unsubscribe, email: [email protected] For more options: http://groups.google.com/group/farcry-dev -------------------------------- Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/farcry
