I would start off small, we can always grow the functionality of what can be customized as time progresses
On Thursday 16 January 2014 17:04:01 you wrote: > On 01/16/2014 04:54 PM, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > > Vesa how hard would it be to make a GUI like front end that will allow > > someone who doesnt know css to make modifications to the look and theme > > of their lmms install? > > Well, it largely depends on how much modifications the users should be > able to make. If it's only modifications to the basic palette (the one > that is now being read from the .css file), it wouldn't be hard as such, > but would still require an entirely separate mechanism on top of the > theming system - because the modified palette would need to be stored > somewhere other than the theme. But this has the problem that the > palette only affects a limited portion of the colours - a lot of the UI > element colours are defined in the CSS instead of the palette. > > If it's modifications to the css elements and styles as well, then > that'd be extremely hard and lots of work. Frankly, it wouldn't be much > use, since the user would still be required to understand the CSS > elements and properties and what they do, and if the user understands > those, they can just edit the css file directly... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ LMMS-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmms-devel
