[horde] Color Schemes

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:

> Zitat von André Schild <a.schild at aarboard.ch>:
>
>>>> Hi everybody,
>>>>
>>>> Is there a website to download different color schemes for horde 5.1/5.2?
>>>> Some users ask for that.
>>>> I know that is possible to duplicate the default theme and create one,
>>>> but developers do make a better job on that.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Take a look at the mailing lists (13-02-2014 and 24-01-2014),  
>>> there are some
>>> themes discussion and shares.
>>
>> [Andre Schild]
>> Have there been any ideas about using SASS for theme building?
>> This would allow us to change colors in a simpler way.
>>
>> André
>
> Yes, but as with many ideas, we lack time/funding to really get to this.

Actually, it shouldn't be that difficult to add this functionality ...  
now that we have the CssMinify library.  A SASS library could be  
implemented as a driver.

The bigger issues are instead:

1.) Deciding on the preprocessor to use.  We would need to decide on a  
single solution, since trying to maintain multiple solutions would be  
difficult.  I know of LESS also, but IIRC SASS is sort of the  
best-in-class solution.

2.) Configuration/performance issues.  If we decide to use SASS, I  
assume we would have to parse every file with it - trying to create a  
system where only certain files are parsed would be way too unwieldy.   
The problem with this becomes that we pretty much require static  
compilation of CSS for performance reasons.  Since we don't require  
this now, and this requires extra legwork at installation time  
above/beyond PEAR install, this is a major decision to make for the  
project.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at horde.org]