Re: Plone 5 theming with a ready-to-download theme?

Hello Jens,

That's a very valid use case, and yes I think it should be documented, so
beginners can start theming Plone more easily.

Eric

On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 9:24 AM, Jens W. Klein <jens-/[email protected]>
wrote:

> I'am just experimenting with a use case which is kind of classical for
> integrators:
>
> take one of the thousands free or commercial bootstrap 3 themes, i.e.
>
> - 1000ds https://wrapbootstrap.com (one that fits the portal story) for
>    just a few bucks
> - basic http://bootstrapzero.com/bootstrap-template/portal
> - more are out in the wild http://bit.ly/1GhaEpK
> - or some bs3 theme developed by an design agency for a project -
>    tell'em to follow bs3 reduces the risk of theming adventures a lot.
>
> and make a Plone 5 diazo theme from that. With minimal effort.
>
> (the same use case could be transformed to any other
> CSS/Markup-Framework, if youre fan-girl/-boy of a different one replace
> bs3 with your favorite term)
>
> Given the theme package provides an index.html, the whole less/js needed
> and grunt build system (wrapbootstrap ones do so in general) my base
> idea is to just do the following steps:
>
> - add a rules and manifesto
> - add a custom less which bridges plone markup to bootstrap 3 markup
> - add a theme specific less if needed to adjust things for the current
> theme.
>
> (most of the less file bridging plone classes to bs3 classes should be
> genric. so we may have two less files: one generic, one specific for the
> current theme)
>
> The idea is to be able to download a theme, add some files, adjust
> things and have it up and running with default types. edit bar is
> available and viewlets and portlets are mapped to theme.
>
> Goal: Invest not more than 4h in this tasks the second time.
>
> This excludes: further fine tuning, mosaic pages (or other compound
> pages), custom types and so on.
>
> Questions:
>
> - Is this a valid use-case? Are there people out there working that way
> or would like to?
>
> - Is there such a story implemented?
>
> - If not, is there interest in creating a documentation and maintaining
> code snippet helping integrators working that way?
>
> best regards
>
> Jens
> --
> Klein & Partner KG, member of BlueDynamics Alliance
>
>
>
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