On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 01:14:26PM +0100, Kate L Pugh wrote:
On Wed 09 Jun 2004, Mart?n Ferrari yo@martinferrari.com.ar wrote:
- To treat the templates entirely as user configuration, nobody will
use them as bundled, because we all want to have our own look&feel.
I'm not happy about people using anything other than the templates in the distro, since they still have some application logic in them. We have had bugs in the templates; I'm sure there are still some lurking. Using custom templates is very much done at your own risk.
Changing the templates is not for the faint hearted, http://www.iloveni.com has some fairly extensive changes in there but I had a couple of good reasons: the coordinate system doesn't yet work for Ireland so I removed some functionality for the time being and I wanted accessible XHTML rather than HTML, which means changing a few things.
But in my opinion you as developers should not really think about look and feel and just supply building blocks for others to create 'flavours' of OpenGuides. I think if you separated engineering from design and created two projects you'd get a better product.
Stephen