[dokuwiki] Re: Proposal: theme colour control
- From: Andreas Gohr <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 18:54:12 +0100
On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 17:42:43 +0000
Chris Smith <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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 .....
Exactly what I think - we shouldn't overdo this.
However I agree with Mathias and Anika that my choosing of pattern names
wasn't very good and some more general names would have been better.
Andi
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