Please update theme creation documentation
- Status
- Open
- Subject
- Please update theme creation documentation
- Version
- 21.x Regression
25.x - Category
- Documentation (or Advocacy)
- Feature
- Others
- Resolution status
- New
- Submitted by
- hman
- Lastmod by
- hman
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- Description
Since I was critized for editing an existing Tiki theme to fit my needs on two installations, I wanted to give the "official" way a try.
So I visited
https://themes.tiki.org/Creating-a-Tiki-theme
which is the official documentation. I have the impression (but cannot prove this, of course) that I am the first to actually use this...
It fails. On step 1 (Three Ways to Make a New Theme).
https://themes.tiki.org/Three-Ways-to-Make-a-New-Theme
Btw, BOTH pages are dated 2016... There are three alternatives listed:
- Link to a Bootstrap.css File for a New Theme
- Add a Style Sheet to the Themes Directory
- Make a Less-Compiled Tiki Theme
Less...There is another documentation from Tiki:
https://themes.tiki.org/Updating-a-Tiki-theme-from-Bootstrap-3-to-4
to which I was pointed recently. Besides the fact that it hasn't been updated in 4 years, it stil reads als "work in progress". Like this table:
Less function SCSS equivalent coming soon coming soon
"coming soon". How "soon" is 4 years? Another example"I'll add a table here of the changes I've had to make when updating Tiki themes, but in the meantime" So we do not learn what changes had to be made, and we cannot learn from Tiki's devs what pitfalls were discovered. And there the documentation ends...
Bootstrap's documentation, on the other hand
https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/migration/
isn't very useful as well. It addresses only developers who are fully rooted in the entire Bootstrap universe. Frankly, I understand not even half of the stuff.
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- Importance
- 7
- Easy to solve?
- 3
- Priority
- 21
- Demonstrate Bug on Tiki 19+
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This bug has been demonstrated on show2.tiki.org
Please demonstrate your bug on show2.tiki.org
Show.tiki.org is not configured properlyThe public/private keys configured to connect to show2.tiki.org were not accepted. Please make sure you are using RSA keys. Thanks.
- Demonstrate Bug (older Tiki versions)
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This bug has been demonstrated on show.tikiwiki.org
Please demonstrate your bug on show.tikiwiki.org
Show.tiki.org is not configured properlyThe public/private keys configured to connect to show.tikiwiki.org were not accepted. Please make sure you are using RSA keys. Thanks.
- Ticket ID
- 8159
- Created
- Saturday 30 July, 2022 17:30:14 UTC
by hman - LastModif
- Saturday 06 July, 2024 10:21:44 UTC