FreeLists / dokuwiki / [dokuwiki] Re: Template Switching Action

[Gerry Weißbach <gerry.w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Terence J. Grant schrieb:
> > Basically you are right, but the meaning of "change the template on a
> > per user " can be mistaken on this topic. I don't want a special user to
> > change the template. It is for everybody, having no special group, not
> > being loged in or something, so I think the multitemplate does not
> > really apply.
>
> Fix: Use cookies, and determine the template based on the cookie.
Good suggestion, but the css.php does not read that either. It is not 
about how to save the currently used template for the visitor (more 
clear a user that can not login into the wiki) it is about the css.php 
to notify that the template has just changed and therefore another 
style, means layout.css and design.css, is needed to be send. This 
changing of templates can take place at any time the visitor wants it to 
and there is no information left of the template that has been used when 
the visitor leaves. It is only for the current Session.
> > > The big con is that you lose style.ini support, but that shouldn't
> > > stop you from using it.
> > I would not want to loose that.
>
> Keep in mind you can turn a style.ini template into one not requiring
> it fairly easily.
I know. For me it might be OK, but consider someone else who wants to 
use this plugin and has about 3 templates installed that he just copied 
from somewhere else. This person will have to change the templates in 
the same way even though he does not care about the html code. That is 
not very userfriendly. Mostly one wants to install sth. and then just 
let it work without doing anything else.
> Also, consider the contradiction-- your guests or logged in users can
> choose which template they want, but they're still locked into
> whatever default color scheme you've set up for each template... and
> whatever benefit style.ini had is almost all but lost.

Uhm. I do not know, if I got your point right, but if so: When I say 
change the layout also want antother color scheme which imo should be 
the one defined for the template.
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