On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 12:09 PM, Mads Kiilerich <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/27/2016 04:40 PM, Angel Ezquerra wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> this is something that has probably already been discussed but please >> bear with me since I am new to Kallithea and mako. I've been wondering >> about what would be the best way to make the Kallithea look >> configurable. CSS is a bit annoying in this regard because it does not >> support variables or anything of the sort. However it could be >> possible to change the existing CSS and turn it into mako templates, >> couldn't it? Then it would "just" be a matter of adding some UI to >> select the colors of the different UI elements. >> >> Would that make sense? Which drawbacks would there be? > > > The main drawback would be that the css no longer would be static and thus > is less trivial to cache - worst case the browser would have to fetch it for > every page load. > > There are solutions to that, but we currently don't use those.
What I had in mind would be to generate the CSS files only once (e.g. when saving the settings or perhaps by executing some specific paste command)... > We try to make step towards cleaning up and following existing best > practice. > https://bitbucket.org/conservancy/kallithea/pull-requests/167/port-kallithea-theme-to-bootstrap-wip/diff > will take a big step in that direction. > > (At Unity we currently just tweak style.css in one of the patches we have on > top of the upstream default branch.) > > /Mads I don't know much about Bootstrap but since there seems to be a plan in place to tackle this I guess we can forget about my proposal. Cheers, Angel _______________________________________________ kallithea-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sfconservancy.org/mailman/listinfo/kallithea-general
