As a User, I want themes, so that I can change my theme without changing my skeleton

[balupton]

Would be a pretty a big change, however a very valuable one.

Current thoughts is that your stylesheet will reference which theme you want to use.

[bobobo1618]

How about you transfer the Skeleton over to Kickstrap? It's Bootstrap based so pretty similar and it has built in support for themes via LESS, which would be conveniently and automatically compiled by Docpad.

[balupton]

That seems more of writing a new skeleton, rather than properly adding theme support into docpad.

The idea of themes, is so:

You will have a src/themes directory, new themes will be installed here, each theme will contain the same src directories we are use to, e.g. documents, files, layouts, partials. The theme is set via the docpad configuration (which can be set via your website's package.json). It would work by adding extra "parths" to the requires, e.g. specifying layout: post - would first try src/layouts/post, then if that fails (the file doesn't exist) it would try your theme's src/themes/yourChosenTheme/layouts/post. In regards to partials, it would work like so: @partial('document-list',theme: 'blah')

This way themes can be dropped in, regardless of which skeleton your are using.

[bobobo1618]

Ahh, I see what you mean. Sounds pretty good. Sounds like it would need some standardisation in the design and layout though.

[balupton]

Closing, as is more of a discussion than an actionable task.

[zenorocha]

This is the exactly problem that we're facing on braziljs/confboilerplate. We need the ability of having custom themes for each event.

+1 for having a src/themes dir.