HOWTO-Themes - How to write and use Slash themes
A theme is a website design. It can have some functionality to it (for example, the slashcode theme is a weblog). Functionality, though, is normally split into seperate plugins.
There are two ways to do this. First, you can put it in the themes directory with the distribution. During the install it will be copied to the themes directory (by default, /usr/local/slash/themes/. The second option is to copy it in there yourself. The directory layout is very important with themes. The install expects to find a sql directory with a mysql and postgresql directory in it. It expects a templates directory with templates in it and finally it expects an htdocs directory. It copies files directly from htdocs to the install's directory. Look at the slashcode theme as an example.
Just the directory structure explained above. Right now there is no THEME file like there is a PLUGIN file for PLUGINS. Expect this to change at some point in the future.
I have a really cool theme and I would like to see it added to the Slash distribution. Will you distributed mine?
Maybe. We don't have any rules concerning this at the moment, so it will be on a case by case basis. At some point in the future we will come up with a much better answer.