[dev] Horde "personalities"

[Kevin Myer]

Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:

> Icons are already part of the theme, and thus are sounds as they
> currently live under graphics/ from where they're yet to be moved to a
> more appropriate place.

Sorry, I didn't read the themes howto closely enough, misunderstood what is
there and was confused because it seems like only one set of icons is
distributed with Horde.  From a management perspective, it would be helpful to
not have to visit each modules themes directory, which is what I was 
originally
trying to get at.

A unified theme directory structure, like so:

horde/themes
horde/themes/graphics
horde/themes/graphics/imp
horde/themes/audio
horde/themes/audio/imp
horde/themes/mytheme
horde/themes/mytheme/graphics
horde/themes/mytheme/graphics/imp
horde/themes/mytheme/audio
horde/themes/mytheme/audio/imp

would be much easier to manage then the current setup, which has bits 
scattered
across all the modules.  Has anyone developed alternate icons sets?  Is 
there a
repository of these releases anywhere?  Would it facilitate development of
themes if the Wiki page for ThemesHowTo was highlighted somewhere and a
centralized mechanism of publishing and making available for download new
themes was established?

Theme authors could release a tarball, which would install cleanly, regardless
if a module were installed or not.  Then, the only thing an admin would 
have to
do is modify info.php for the theme, to tell Horde what modules to include the
new theme bits for.

Also, the concept of a theme is not well expressed in the Horde Options 
screen. Its really more than just a color scheme - its color, and 
icons, and audio and
I'd vote for a more all-encompassing term to define that - skin, theme,
personality, whatever-you-want-to-call-it..

Kevin

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Kevin M. Myer
Senior Systems Administrator
Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13  http://www.iu13.org