Re: template contribution for 1.5.2(SVN)

On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Florian Staudacher
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> A short introduction of myself: My name is Florian, I am 21 years old
> and I am studying Computer Science at the Vienna University of
> Technology. I have been using SquirrelMail privately for my family for
> quite some time now, and I recently came to the decision that I want to
> contribute something publicly to my long-term mail reader.
>
> I would just like to announce that I am currently working on a template
> for SquirrelMail (1.5.2 SVN) that I plan to use for my own SquirrelMail
> installation, and, if it reaches some acceptable level of maturity, I'd
> like to release into the public.

Thank you, we really appreciate your desire to contribute to the
SquirrelMail community!

> Therefore I'd like to inquire the current state of the templating system
> and if it's ok to build templates with it, or whether I should wait for
> some more development to happen (I am asking because I read in the wiki
> that there is currently work going on there).

The development of version 1.5.2 is somewhat stalled, although it is
maintained with most of the same updates the 1.4.x tree gets.  The
template system in particular is largely in place, but there are any
number of places where the HTML and PHP code are still intertwined in
a really messy way and still awaiting some attention.  Unfortunately,
I can't say when that will be addressed.

> Maybe someone could also give me some tips and hints how to approach
> this in a way, that I will not waste my time and that other people can
> benefit from my work.

If there's something you don't understand, just ask.

> For now, here is a screenshot of what I already have:
> http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/62/squirrelmailblurred.png/
> (I was heavily inspired by the design of the Typo3 backend in the choice
> of my palette, and the icons used are from the KDE/Oxygen project. It
> uses some CSS3 selectors and pseudo-classes because I haven't modified
> much of the html yet. But I think I could write simpler CSS if I played
> around with the HTML...)
>
> If someone is interested, I can also email you a tarball of my theme.
>
> I'm looking forward to hearing from you!

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