Theme system

[mybb]

Theme system

[euantorano]

@Eric-Jackson @justinsoltesz What kind of features would you guys (as our resident designers) ideally like to see from the theme system for 2.0?

I've already got the following ideas:

• Custom stylesheets (obviously).
• Custom views (obviously).
• Custom JavaScript management. Possibly using something such as Assetic, so that designers don't have to hardcode JS, instead there's a way to associate JS files with a theme and they'll be loaded automatically and merged into a single file.
• Theme variables (such as those found in XF, vBulletin, etc.) - I'm not 100% set on this, but it might be nice I guess?
• SASS for styles? Not sure on the feasibility of this, need to see if there are any libraries to parse SASS in PHP...

[ATofighi]

SASS for styles? Not sure on the feasibility of this, need to see if there are any libraries to parse SASS in PHP...

I agree with it, we can use https://github.com/leafo/scssphp

[euantorano]

Nice find @ATofighi!

[ATofighi]

I think we should support less too (https://github.com/leafo/lessphp)

[euantorano]

Maybe, but we don't want to overcomplicate it. We should probably ask the community.

[JN-Jones]

Themes should also get an update process similar to plugins (like Wordpress has).

[euantorano]

Agreed.

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Themes should also get an update process similar to plugins (like Wordpress has).

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[Eric-Jackson]

A variable system would be amazing, I think we talked about style inheritance before which would be great as well.

In my opinion XF got just about everything right, so it's hard to suggest things without listing it's features. Something to relate templates so they could be grouped together when loaded would be awesome (xen:edithint).

Also something I thought would be interesting is the ability to export/import single templates (Or just any amount of them selected by the user). Would be cool for things like tutorials and add-ons where only small sections need tweaking (The CSS button tutorial for 1.6 comes to mind).

IPB's feature to export images as XML is also interesting, just to mention.

[justinsoltesz]

Sorry for being a little late to the party, but I think supporting SASS is pretty much required -- I've been writing the CSS to not just be able to manage for us, but also to be easy to manage for theme authors. Supporting SASS for custom themes also gives us theme variables (and a lot more) built-in.