#1664 - About the Theme Wizard

Identifier #1664
Issue type Feature request or suggestion
Title About the Theme Wizard
Status Completed
Handling member Chris Graham
Addon General / Uncategorised
Description [28/06/2014 19:09:31] Chris Graham: Composr is such a large system, we have to define a lot of colours.
[28/06/2014 19:09:41] Chris Graham: And people want to change the colours a lot, but make them blend nicely.
[28/06/2014 19:09:58] Chris Graham: So instead of making people restyle every single CSS rule, we define these standard colours, defined by equations.
[28/06/2014 19:10:05] Chris Graham: You can still hard-code colours for your own theme.
[28/06/2014 19:10:31] Chris Graham: The Theme Wizard is just to get you started, because even if you're making a new theme, you won't want to redefine every colour in Composr, it would take too long.
[28/06/2014 19:10:43] Chris Graham: So you start with a Theme Wizard colour similar to what your own design will use.
[28/06/2014 19:10:55] Chris Graham: Then you build your own design around what the Theme Wizard did, customising whatever you want.

{$THEME_WIZARD_COLOR,#d91522,red_highlight_text,80% FF0000 + 20% seed}
...

span.red_alert, a.red_alert, strong.red_alert, em.red_alert {
color: {$GET,red_highlight_text};
font-weight: bold;
}


[28/06/2014 19:11:47] Chris Graham: You can see, it just grabs the colour and puts it into a normal looking bit of CSS.


[28/06/2014 19:33:59] x: do it have any dependancy to wizard code, and when creating do we need to create wizard code manually?
[28/06/2014 19:34:24] Chris Graham: Well remember I never created a blank file here.
[28/06/2014 19:34:39] Chris Graham: I always overrode something from the default theme, so always had whatever the default theme already had.
[28/06/2014 19:34:59] Chris Graham: I never would have to create something new unless I am defining my own new styles.
[28/06/2014 19:35:18] Chris Graham: Regarding dependencies - no, nothing strictly depends on the theme wizard code, except existing styles.
[28/06/2014 19:35:29] Chris Graham: So if I started removing those equations, it would make a mess, as existing colours would not be defined.
[28/06/2014 19:35:38] Chris Graham: But I could choose to then go through and manually define them everywhere.
[28/06/2014 19:35:49] Chris Graham: It's just, it would be a waste of effort. I would be changing 100s of CSS references.



[28/06/2014 19:38:13] x: I have theme design , it having 2-3 color , so I need to specify those colors in my theme css file. is it a correct way , or we need to derive that colors from Wizad value?
[28/06/2014 19:38:43] Chris Graham: If you are making your own theme, you know what colours you want, you don't need to try and define equations for it, you just use normal CSS.
[28/06/2014 19:38:57] x: ok
[28/06/2014 19:39:00] Chris Graham: HOWEVER ;)...
[28/06/2014 19:39:25] Chris Graham: We do have a second mode for the Theme Wizard that can copy a theme and change hard-coded CSS colours, by shifting the colours.
[28/06/2014 19:39:44] Chris Graham: So you may make a theme and have some reds, then someone copies it using the Theme Wizard and shifts it towards blue.
[28/06/2014 19:39:59] Chris Graham: That's actually quite cool but you don't need to do anything special as a themer to support that.
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