Add themes management

[qwertygc]

Hello !
It's possible to add a themes managment e.g a folder by theme ? And a variable show the theme.
A other suggestion it's the possibility to translate shaarli.
Regards

[e2jk]

Themes is discussed in issue #14, as part of the plugin system.
Translation has been discussed a while ago on Sebsauvage's upstream, see sebsauvage#18.

Next steps according to me: we need to first finalize the transition to the Shaarli organization, and have @sebsauvage validate that, then we can start working on the somewhat more disruptive changes such as the plugin system, and i18n.

[nodiscc]

I've edited the issue title to only focus on themes management.
Feel free to reopen a separate issue for I18N

[nodiscc]

TODO:

• transfer ownership of shaarli-themes to the organization done
• rename shaarli-themes to themes
• add a SHAARLI_THEME config variable, defaults to default
  • try to load inc/themes/$SHAARLI_THEME/$SHAARLI_THEME.css
  • if file unreadable or it's set to default, use inc/shaarli.css
• update and translate doc on theming
  • to install some themes, clone or unpack the themes repository in inc/
  • to manually install a theme, unpack it to it's own directory in inc/themes/ (see naming conventions)

Related:

• Create a list of some remarkable CSS for shaarli sebsauvage/Shaarli#93 - Create a list of some remarkable CSS for shaarli closed, uses https://github.com/shaarli/shaarli-themes
• Stylesheet selector sebsauvage/Shaarli#95 - implements a GUI stylesheet selector

[alexisju]

Why do you consider that a "theme" is just another CSS ? To make AlbinoMouse (http://liens.effingo.be) i had to change many tpl to design really a something different.

It's why i need to maintain another full repository (what is not very convenient).

[nodiscc]

@alexisju Yep! This is why we differentiate between themes and templates (btw albinomouse is very nice)

• There is a templates repository at https://github.com/shaarli/templates
  • You could add albinomouse to it like we did for hoaro
• There is a themes repository at https://github.com/shaarli/shaarli-themes
  • These are themes for the default Shaarli template

There is still much work to do about this but users can already:

• clone the templates repository to eg. templates/ in their Shaarli install
• set their config variable $GLOBALS['config']['RAINTPL_TPL'] = 'templates/albinomouse/ to use your template + theme

In the future:

There could be a config variable $GLOBALS['config']['CSS_THEME']. This would allow selecting the CSS file in use for the current theme; but we need to standardize that (eg. Shaarli's default is shaarli.css, yours is albinomouse.css and in the hoaro theme it's css/style.css)

But in the long run, I'm not sure we should add theme management. Collecting themes and templates is a good idea, but simply replacing user.css is already nice and doesn't interefer with the update process.

[alexisju]

ok, I'll consider this to try to make my templates a bit more compliant to follow future updates from the community fork of shaarli :)