[horde] Color Schemes

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:

> 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.

I didn't assume we would built CSS during run-time or deployment-time,  
but really during development. We would distribute both LESS/SASS and  
CSS to Git already.

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Jan Schneider
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