Re: Re: [Plone-developers] The new Plone 4.0

Alexander Limi wrote:
> On Sat, 09 May 2009 05:09:07 -0700, Martin Aspeli  
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>> We'd also need to find a way to not break all existing themes.
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> It will "break" (ie. slightly change) themes that reuse parts of the  
> original Plone CSS as part of their theme. Luckily, the fix is easy: make a copy of the old CSS in your product.
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Or, even easier: use our underlying technologies
theming capabilities and simply ship with two themes. ;-)

Make the new one the default for new sites but leave
existing ones alone.

Other than that: +1 on the idea

Raphael


> Few themes do this anymore though — it's mostly for the editing/authoring  
> bits, which would still work (although they will change slightly too).  
> Again, very easy to copy the old CSS into your theme if you want to keep  
> the old style.
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> It's a x.0 release, so slight breakage like this shouldn't be a big issue.
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>> A small visual refresh would be welcome, though. Plone is looking a bit  
>> last millenium. :-/
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> Yup.
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