Theme Management

Bug #548162 reported by Chris Walsh
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Bug Description

I have a few theme related requests:

1) It would be great to have true theme management, like Drupal, where we can visually preview themes and set parameters/options within a theme that has been loaded.

2) It would be great to be able to assign different themes to different institutions and have an option to allow users to change their themes.

3) It would be really, really nice documentation or tutorials on theming for Mahara. Maybe I just missed it, but I can't find even basic info on the structure of pages, etc.

4) It would be great to have a theme library, so we could create and share themes.

Tags: theming
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Nigel-catalyst (nigel-catalyst) wrote :

1. Requires quite a few enhancements to the theme system - not likely to happen any time soon, but it's a good idea.

2. The former part of that (institution themes), Mahara already has. Users choosing their theme is a good feature that several people have requested before, and is definitely something we should add.

3. Yeah, we're currently failing miserably at that :(. Hopefully we can get at least some docs up soon about theming...

4. There's a theme group on mahara.org, I think people have been making Views in there to share themes currently. It's not perfect, though it does use Mahara :). When there's time, we might look at putting together something more formal.

tags: added: theming
removed: mahara-eduforge-feature-request
description: updated
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Kristina Hoeppner (kris-hoeppner) wrote :

As for 2: Users can choose their themes if the site admin allows page themes. In addition, Mahara now has skins (since Mahara 1.8) which give users again more freedom to change the look and feel of their pages if skins are allowed.

3. We created theming guides for 1.8 https://wiki.mahara.org/index.php/Customising/Themes/Theming_Guides to help visual designers.

4. Not flash, but themes that are available to the community freely and that are announced publicly are added to https://wiki.mahara.org/index.php/Themes/Contributed_themes

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Robert Lyon (robertl-9) wrote :

For point 1:

We have Configurable theme and Subtheme starter that help towards this

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