Re: G3 colors

> I think a user friendly and simple approach to this problem would be  
> to,
> AFTER we are done with our single main.css file, to provide another
> template CSS file that only has the color information.  So for  
> somebody
> that only wants to change the colors of his Gallery (which I agree is
> probably a common use case), he can take the colors.css, change the
> colors and use it to override the defaults of the theme.  He doesn't
> even have to clone the theme for this.  And it doesn't add any
> complexity to the default theme.
>
> This would require the maintenance of the colors.css stylesheet in
> addition to the main.css stylesheet.  But the effort should be
> manageable and it would not be a big breakdown if any individual
> color-style is missing in the colors.css
>
> What do people think?
>
> --Jakob
>
>
>
> Chad Kieffer wrote:
>> Hi Alec,
>>
>> We discussed the multiple CSS file approach during the code sprint.
>> Jens brings up good points that I agree with. Although G3 may likely
>> provide css file compression to collect separate css files for
>> combination, this would add an extra level of complexity.
>>
>> I think it's best for now if we stick with a single css file per  
>> media
>> type and  promote a standard grouping of CSS definitions in that  
>> file.
>> We can use comments to identify and explain each group in the file.
>>
>> I don't see how a single file approach would hinder or complicate
>> theme or module driven color changes.
>>
>> - Chad
>>
>> On Oct 27, 2008, at 10:08 AM, "Alec Myers" <alec@...>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On the basis of that page, here's a wacky idea: noticing that the
>>> slowest
>>> part of loading a new gallery page is downloading (in my case) 48
>>> individiual thumbnails why not have gallery pre-build and cache the
>>> thumbnails for each page as a single jpg (sprite-like) and repeat it
>>> to show
>>> the individual images?
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Jens A. Tkotz" <jens@...>
>>> To: <gallery-devel@...>
>>> Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 3:13 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Gallery-devel] G3 colors
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> the only benefit i see for splitting css files is "better"  
>>> structure.
>>> The author says its easier to maintain for example three smaller  
>>> file
>>> than one big file.
>>>
>>> I do not agree.
>>> For example lets say there is a color.css
>>> I have .gAdminbar {}
>>> I would have it in main.css AND in color.css
>>> So i have to switch between two files depending on what i am  
>>> changing.
>>> If there will be "colorpacks" you would need to ship main.css,
>>> green_color.css and red_color.css
>>> So i don't see a simplification and the structure is not that  
>>> better.
>>>
>>>
>>> And another reason is, that the client has to do more HTTP requests.
>>> See http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html
>>>
>>> - Jens
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Quoting Brandon Sussman <Brandon@...>:
>>>
>>>> On Monday 27 October 2008 00:48:03 Chad Kieffer wrote:
>>>>> We'll probably opt to document how to clone a theme and alter
>>>>> it's color via CSS.
>>>> I imagine many folks feel that color adjustment is very important  
>>>> to
>>>> individualization but...
>>>>
>>>> In ALA's latest article (
>>>> http://www.alistapart.com/articles/progressiveenhancementwithcss ),
>>>> Aaron
>>>> Gustafson discusses separation of css into functional units ( e.g.
>>>> type.css,
>>>> layout.css, color.css).  I think this makes good structural sense.
>>>>
>>>> Seems to me this is fine to begin with.  If the correct hooks and
>>>> loops
>>>> are
>>>> there,  making manipulations available in a GUI can be accomplished
>>>> if
>>>> that
>>>> ever bubbles to the top of the to-do list (which is probably  
>>>> already
>>>> several
>>>> volumes long in some folks minds :)
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