On 1/12/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well as any good programmer you learn new ways of doing things and > more efficient ways of completing a task every day (or week :P). Since > my original work in making pfSense themeable I have found a couple of > ways to "improve" upon this. > > My first and only idea that I am going to share at this point with you > is basically the concept Firefox uses with extension development. See > Figure 1 for an example of the heirachical (sp?) structure. > > Basically I am thinking of making the themeing system use an xml file > to contain the "elements" of the theme and just have the webgui read > the xml file to find out what CSS files need to be included, > javascript, etc ... overall or per page. > > ++++++++++++++++++ > + Figure 1.1 + > +----------------+ > + /themes + > + /metallic + > + /css + > + /images + > + /javascript + > + metallic.xml + > ++++++++++++++++++ > > Comments? :) (I know GeekGod will have plenty, as this is the first > time he is seeing this idea :P)
For 1.1 the XML approach is a great idea. However for 1.0 we may want to somehow fix the misc small issues so that others can create themes. Can we get a list of outstanding items that need fixing in the themes section as a ticket in cvstrack? Scott --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
