Forum OpenACS Development: Re: OpenACSZen

5: Re: OpenACSZen (response to 1)

Posted by Jon Griffin on 01/06/07 04:23 AM

I did a quick (really quick) hack to use the jboss templates.
http://jongriffin.com

I copied the css verbatim so nothing is optimized, and some doesn't work well.

Some things I notice:
1. There are many useless tags.
2. It is designed for portals so all the themes have a "portal" feel to them.
3. They still use tables.

I think that having a package will do the job for theming. My thoughts on this are to have each subsite query a table that shows what themes are available in the file/db system.

It should be relativly painless to make <master> a data driven parameter. This will make it easy to also make admin pages not themed. This becomes important when you want to "inject" certain elements to some pages (i.e. google analytics, digg etc.) and not others.

7: Re: OpenACSZen (response to 5)

Posted by Don Baccus on 01/12/07 01:19 AM

(replying to post #5)

We'll be using a table-less portlet layout for 2.3 (the zen theme). I'll be doing a bit of work to incorporate this into the standard oacs classes (making sure names are congruent, etc).

There's going to be a push to get rid of the tables and use this div-based layout method for package page contents that are used by .lrn, too.

My suggestion is wait for this work and then let's talk about the future. we're talking weeks for this 2.3 zen work, not long at all compared to most openacs/dotlrn happenings.