[dokuwiki] Re: Proposal: theme colour control

  • From: Chris Smith <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 17:42:43 +0000

Anika Henke wrote:


You are absolutely right about this! But I can tell you what Andi will answer (because I asked him the same thing right after the css dispatcher was out): "That's what templates are for ..." :-(

So, I for one, did the only reasonable thing to *my* template: I used variables such as __text_1__, __text_headline__, __link_normal__, __link_existent__, __background_3__, __border_2__ and such.

Also see my other note. I think you are trying to duplicate CSS functionality with styles.ini. I would argue that isn't its purpose. Its purpose is to simplify and standardise styles across the plethora of Dokuwiki stylesheets and to avoid repititive use of "magic colour codes" and any other common values. That is to allow all elements which share a colour or value to use one name for that colour/value.

The final control of an individual element's presentation should remain in CSS. Making styles.ini too large would make the process of template building more complex not less. As you have to first deduce what style rules control what element, then locate the styles.ini value(s) for that style element, then locate all the other style rules which use the same styles.ini value, all before you decide whether you:
(a) need to define the value in the stylesheet
(b) changes the value in styles.ini
(c) make a new value for styles.ini - and then decide which rules get the original name and which will get the new name .....

K.I.S.S

My 0.02 anyhow.  :-)

Chris


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