Re: Flavours

On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 11:14:38AM -0400, Will Guaraldi wrote:
> On 6/8/07, Chris G <[email protected]> wrote:
> > As far as I can see the *only* flavour in Flavour Registry that works
> > in the way described in the documentation is 1024px.  All of the
> > others simply provide their own .html files which take over from the
> > default pyblosxom ones.
> >
> > Is this a hangover from older versions of Pyblosxom or what?  It's
> > certainly a bit confusing for a beginner (me!).
> 
> With flavours that just provide a collection of files, you can put
> them into a directory yourself and it should work as it states in the
> documentation.
> 
OK, thanks, presumably you add the flavour .html files to the data
directory where .txt (and/or .rst files) are?  Will this give the
flavour to just that level or will it apply to all sub-directories as
well?


> > In addition the ones I have tried seem to expect their CSS files to be
> > in various ill-defined places that often don't exist.
> 
> Peoples' web-servers are set up differently from other peoples'
> web-servers.  As such you'll find that media files that flavours
> require won't have a standard place to live on your file system--it'll
> depend on how your web-server is set up.
> 
> As such, you should expect to have to go through the flavour templates
> and adjust them to work on your setup.
> 
Yes, OK, that's fine.  I'm not very HTML/CSS aware though and I
initially found it rather confusing.  Maybe some notes and/or asking
for some documentation with flavours (as for templates) would help.

-- 
Chris Green

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